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Need for speed! Quantum technology breaks new grounds. However, alongside numerous opportunities, it also poses risks. Prof. Dr. Urs Gasser heads the new Quantum Social Lab at the TUM Think Tank at HfP. In TUM Campus, he discusses how the initiative aims to explore and shape the impact of quantum… [read more]

How does social media shape political discourse? Prof. Dr. Orestis Papaksriakopoulos and Prof. Dr. Simon Hegelich, together with Dr. Juan Carlos Medina Serrano, have analyzed how hyperactive users control opinions and thus influence political discourse. For this contribution, OSNEM (Online Social… [read more]

Making digitization accessible to all Munich residents – For this purpose, the Digital Council, established on the initiative of the Munich City Council, brings together various expertise and perspectives from the Munich community. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pfeffer, together with Prof. Dr. Gudrun Socher… [read more]

How to design sustainable and digital cities? With the "Urban Digitainability Lab," Prof. Dr. Stefan Wurster, in cooperation with the TUM Think Tank, focuses on network expansion, education, and collaboration between science and practice. The main topics to be addressed by the project are mobility,… [read more]

Instagram is actually a safe photo platform. But the algorithm delivers a toxic mix and apparently plays sexualized content from children – who shouldn’t even be on the platform. [read more]

Instagram is actually a harmless photo platform. However, the algorithm delivers a toxic video mix and apparently displays sexualised content from children - who are illegally on the platform. [read more]

The research project " Using AI to Increase Resilience against Toxicity in Online Entertainment (ToxicAInment)", by Prof. Dr. Yannis Theocharis (Chair of Digital Governance), funded by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (BIDT), explores the spread of extremist, conspiratorial… [read more]

At this year's TUM Dies Academicus, the TUM Sustainability Award was presented to Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs. We congratulate her on this award. You can find a recording of the event on the TUM website. [read more]

It began with a law about heat pumps. It ended with stones being thrown at politicians and a surge in popularity for the far right. For an example of how climate change is increasingly becoming a flashpoint in the culture wars, Germany is a good place to start. [read more]

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