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Few will lose as much as journalists if Twitter dies, having grown reliant on its endless sources and instant updates despite the dangers and distortions that come with it.There has been fevered talk of the platform's imminent demise since billionaire Elon Musk took over last month and began firing vast numbers of staff.But most journalists "can't leave," said Nic Newman, of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. "It's actually a really important part of their work."Newman was working at the BBC when Twitter…

Amazon confirmed Wednesday in a public memo that the company has begun layoffs and “consolidations” in his division. The news came via SVP of Devices & Services Dave Limp, whose sector includes popular virtual assistant Alexa and the not-so-popular home robot Astro, which was launched last year. “As you know, we continue to face an unusual and uncertain macroeconomic environment. In light of this, we’ve been working over the last few months to further prioritize what matters most to our customers and the…

Dogecoin (DOGE) is the most popular meme coin which is partially because it was the very first meme coin to exist. Because of this, DOGE has become a market leader and one of the most influential cryptocurrencies. So, how has it affected other meme coins such as Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Big Eyes Coin (BIG)? Dogecoin’s Influence At the time of writing, DOGE is ranked 9th by market capitalisation. Launched in 2013 as a joke, Dogecoin had no intention of becoming successful as it was created to make a joke towards…

Users of iPhone 8 or later, iPad (5th gen), iPad Air (3rd gen) and iPad mini (5th gen) or later are all required to update their devices right away, which both Apple and CERT-In have explained in their vulnerability notes.What the iPhone and iPad vulnerabilities signifiedAccording to Apple’s patch notes for its latest iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1 updates, as well as the CERT-In advisories, the issues were flagged under CVE-2022-42827. The latter is a log of the cyber exploit under the global Common Vulnerabilities and…

Researchers have discovered that forests are increasing in wood volume due to elevated carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Researchers have discovered that trees are growing in size as a result of carbon dioxide.It is well known that trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, protecting people from some of the harshest consequences of climate change. A recent study demonstrates the extent to which forests have been storing excess carbon.According to the research, which was recently published in the journal…

Google has added three new examples to the top of the “how to write product reviews” help document, clarifying more types of sites that may be impacted by the product reviews algorithm updates. Three examples. Google added these three examples to this help document: An expert staff member of a merchant that guides shoppers between competing products.A blogger that provides independent opinions of products.An editorial staff member at a news or other publishing site.…

How SHAP is impacted by feature dependencies, causal inference and human biasesPhoto by Vicky Sim on UnsplashSHAP is the most popular IML/XAI method. It is a powerful method used to understand how our models make predictions.But don’t let the popularity persuade you.SHAP still has limitations. You need to keep them in mind when making conclusions using the method.We will discuss 3 significant limitations:The first comes from how SHAP values are calculated — we assume feature independenceThe second comes from how we can…

Google has made some changes to how review-types show in Google search and as a result, you may see some changes to the clicks and impressions reported within some of the reports within Search Console. What changed. Google said, “Google began upgrading some review-type results to product-type results in Search, and has been able to generate some new product-type results.” Google also added over here, “Google began upgrading some review-type results to product-type results in…

January 2020: Dense plumes of smoke from the Australian forest fires drifted through the otherwise very clean atmosphere over Punta Arenas. Seen here in the lidar measurements as a green-yellow layer at an altitude of 20 to 25km. Credit: Cristofer Jimenez, TROPOS The 2019/20 wildfires in Australia transported more smoke into the atmosphere than observed ever before anywhere in the world. In the so-called Black Summer, three…

This graph shows the weekly visitation patterns of restaurants with a Black-owned label (red line) versus those without the label (blue lines) in 20 major U.S. cities in 2020. The number of visits is compared to the previous year, with “1” being the same number of visits as in 2019. Credit: Huang, et al./Annals of the American Association of Geographers During the first year of the pandemic, and amid protests for racial…