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COO Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook Communities Summit 2019 MetaMeta COO Sheryl Sandberg plans to step down from her role and leave the company this fall, she wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday. Javier Olivan, currently Meta's Chief Growth Officer and VP of Cross-Meta Products and Infrastructure, will become the company's next COO, CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed in his own post. As COO, Olivan will lead Meta's integrated ads and business products, in addition to continuing to lead its infrastructure, integrity,…

YouTube is the Google-owned video-streaming platform that has a wide user base across the globe. There are ample content creators who use YouTube as a medium to reach out to their audience and gain popularity. A YouTube channel is considered popular when it has a certain number of followers following it and dropping likes and comments on the posts. YouTube does include a feature that allows users to hide their subscribers from public view. However, the subscriber count is still visible in the YouTube Studio.1.Sign in to…

Terahertz technology could enable advanced scanners for security, medicine, and materials science. It could also enable much faster wireless communications devices than are currently possible.Scientists have discovered a new effect in two-dimensional conductive systems that promises improved performance of terahertz detectors.A recent physics discovery in two-dimensional conductive systems enables a new type of terahertz detector. Terahertz frequencies, which lie between microwave and infrared on the spectrum of…

Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes just scored a major coup in his quest to end Australia's use of coal energy. The Wall Street Journal reports AGL Energy, Australia's worst emissions producer, has withdrawn plans to 'demerge' its retail power and generation units (thus keeping coal power plants running longer) after Cannon-Brookes bought over 11 percent of the company's stock. The breakup plan is unlikely to pass a shareholder vote after the tech executive's move, AGL said. Both the chairman and CEO of AGL are…

If you follow Kwengface on Instagram, then you’ll know that he was over in New York late last year, connecting with the locals and clearly working on something. Today, we get to see at least some of the fruits from that trip as the UK drill star shares new single “Step Out”, a collab with Brooklyn driller Dusty Locane.Produced by London’s Gotcha, “Step Out” is a slightly slower one than we’re used to from the two rappers—bringing out a more commanding, swaggering flow from the pair—but it’s still as rowdy and energetic as…

With so much uncertainty in the past couple of years — from lockdowns and layoffs to global instability and inflation — the very notion of a career path can feel quaint. How can we plan our next year, to say nothing of the next decade, with so much in constant flux?Even if your data science journey is still a fuzzy work in progress, we always recommend listening to others when they share their own successes, struggles, and epiphanies. This week, we’re presenting several standout posts where authors reflect on their data…

Chopping down trees and processing the wood isn’t the most efficient or environmentally friendly way to make furniture or building materials. Scientists at MIT have now made breakthroughs in a process that could one day let us 3D print and grow wood directly into the shape of furniture and other objects.Wood may be a renewable resource, but we’re using it up much faster than we’re replenishing it. Deforestation is having a drastic impact on wildlife and exacerbating the effects of climate change. Since our appetite for…

Let’s make data science writing more readablePhoto by Eliott Reyna on UnsplashI recently learned about a metric for evaluating the readability of writing: the Flesch Reading Ease score. It was developed back in the 1940s, but it is new to me. As a data practitioner turned writer, I love that there is a concrete formula to be able to assess the readability of an article.The formula for Flesch Reading Ease is as follows:RE = 206.835 — (1.015 * total words/total sentences) — (84.6 * total syllables/total words) The scores…

When outfitted with a groundbreaking “laboratory in a can” to sample environmental DNA (eDNA), nimble robots like MBARI’s long-range autonomous underwater vehicle (LRAUV) can expand the monitoring of ocean health. Credit: © 2021 MBARI/Monterey Bay AquariumAutonomous technology uses eDNA to survey biodiversity.In a major step forward for monitoring the biodiversity of marine systems, a new research study published on May 17, 2022, in the journal Environmental <span class="glossaryLink"…

Apple’s rumored first step into AR and VR has been hush-hush, but a new report indicates that the mixed-reality headset may be getting closer to its grand unveiling. As reported by Bloomberg, Apple’s board got a sneak peek at the company’s upcoming mixed-reality headset at a quarterly meeting. This meeting was attended by “eight independent directors” and CEO Tim Cook. Antonio De Rosa Bloomberg’s report indicates that Apple demonstrated the capabilities of the headset, according to unnamed sources familiar with the…