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Meta is revamping how Facebook recommends videos across Reels, Groups, and the main Facebook Feed, by using AI to power its video recommendation algorithm, Facebook head Tom Alison revealed on Wednesday. The world's largest social network has already switched Reels, its TikTok competitor, to the new engine, and plans to use it in all places within Facebook that show video — the main Facebook feed and Groups — as part of a "technology roadmap" through 2026, Alison said at a Morgan Stanley tech conference in San…

If you want the perfect distillation of the Kristen Stewart aesthetic and ethos, look no further: “I like when things have space to fill. I don’t love perfected items,” she recently told Rolling Stone during the photoshoot for her new cover story. “I really like audience engagement. I love things that have internal lives — even photographs, like the one that we did today. There’s so much behind them.” (You hear that, Chris Ruffo?) Those ideals inform so many of the books, movies, and musicians Stewart recommended…

Cover Image. Credit: Tel Aviv University On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University presents its third "For a Righteous Cause" Annual Report. The sixty-five-page report reviews and analyzes initiatives and programs for combating antisemitism and racism in…

Jason Hiner/ZDNETAs the calendar turns from 2023 to 2024, Apple is getting closer to releasing its shockingly expensive and entirely experimental Vision Pro headset. Just this week, Apple announced that the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can capture spatial video for the Vision Pro.You could say that Apple's vision of artificial reality is getting closer to real reality. And yes, I am pretty proud of that sentence. Also: I tried Apple Vision Pro and it's far ahead of where I expectedRecently, Apple also started to…

The Scientific American editorial team learned a lot this year. We debated why we’ll never live in space, explored the deep ocean (sort of), and asked how dinosaurs got so big. We also read a ton of books. While of course there were quite a few science fiction books (we can't help ourselves), we also learned how to cook, fell in and out of love with intriguing fictional characters, and got the scoop on how many bears really exist, what our universe actually looks like and why we’re even here. Below is a collection of what…

As the weather continues to get colder as the calendar approaches the official start of winter, more people are wearing warmer clothes, including heavier coats -- and for some residents in Washington, DC, that’s proving to be dangerous. DC thieves are targeting residents and college and university students wearing Canada Goose jackets, according to Fox 5 DC news. The story describes how in one case the $1,500 jacket was stolen at gunpoint. "Police said three suspects hopped out of a car, pointed guns, and demanded a…

The union representing Hollywood actors has recommended strike action after a midnight negotiation deadline passed with no agreement as the industry braces for the possibility of the first simultaneous strike by Hollywood writers and actors in more than 60 years.In a statement, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (Sag-Aftra), the union which represents 160,000 actors, said its negotiating committee had voted unanimously to recommend a strike. The national board will decide on…

When he’s not bashing out literary tales of terror, Stephen King seems to spend a lot of his downtime watching as many movies and TV shows as possible, and the ones he really enjoys end up being highly recommended to his millions of social media followers. Having been left blown away by Apple TV’s recently-concluded sci-fi series Silo, the master of horror was in need of something new to enjoy given that there’s going to be a long wait before it returns for a second season. Fortunately enough, it hasn’t taken him long to…

Respiratory syncytial virus vial.Manjurul | Istock | Getty ImagesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended that adults ages 60 and above receive a single dose of RSV vaccines from Pfizer and GSK after consulting their doctors.Outgoing CDC Director Rochelle Walensky signed off on the recommendation, which an advisory panel of outside experts made last week. That endorsement says seniors should work with their health-care providers to decide if taking a shot is right for them. The CDC said the…

Google has urged marketers to import their web and app conversions from Google Analytics 4 into Google Ads. Advertisers that have a linked Google Ads account may have already received a message advising of the new import conversions recommendation. If your GA4 account is eligible for the import, a card will likely appear at the top of the Advertising snapshot page, as a card on the Home page, or as a card on the Insights Hub page. Why we care. Importing the data will make life easier for marketers as they can…