Masks work by reducing the number of infectious viral particles exhaled into the environment. They are not a substitute for social distancing and hand-washing, but the collective evidence makes a strong case for wearing them during a pandemic. Even homemade masks can have a significant effect. A recent study conducted by researchers at the Argonne […]
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The night of the Iowa caucuses last February, Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, logged into Twitter to find the hashtag #RobbyMookCaucusApp trending across the country. Pundits on both sides of the aisle accused him of developing a mobile app to rig the Democratic primary against Senator Bernie Sanders. Soon his phone was buzzing
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Now that bars and restaurants have reopened in the Post COV-ID 19 lockdown, changes in the usual operations have also changed. Regulations have been made when it comes to dine-in accommodation, and social distancing practice continues to be observed among these businesses to avoid virus contraction. One way restaurants and bars are safely reopening is
coronavirus,3d render Getty For anyone who is aged 22 up to 40, here is a call to action: Stop the spread of the disease COVID-19 by spreading the news on social media. Here’s why that message is so important. You are likely in good health. I know you work hard and you’re stuck renting an
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One of the defining characteristics of the European Union has been its strong policy of taking an open approach when it comes to borders in the region: the EU may be a collection of individual countries, but it works as one, and so when you travel from one to the other as an EU citizen,
November 21, 2019 Algorithms are complex in their nature, and can be hard to understand, but there are things that make Google’s algorithm especially hard to pin down and replicate. Algorithms are designed to favor content with certain characteristics, and rank it well, and suppress other content if it is missing the positive characteristics, or
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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin TikTok is the third most downloaded app in the App Store. Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Topline: TikTok—the biggest new social media craze in recent years, with an image so sunny that even high schools have embraced it—has removed two dozen accounts
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A netizen who spread malicious rumors involving Girls’ Generation‘s Sunny and actor Lee Seo Jin online was convicted of defamation. On October 18, Magistrates’ court in Daejeon sentenced netizen A to 6 months in jail and 2 years of suspended sentence along with 80 hours of community service. The judge said, “The defendant has posted a
A cybersecurity researcher has warned that a flood of consumer IoT devices with little benefit could leave us open to disaster. The Mirai botnet was but one of many massive cyberattacks launched using internet-of-things (IoT) devices. Rather than being sophisticated attacks using secure systems, many were orchestrated using household smart devices with little-to-no security built in
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Social media platforms off late have come under criticism for poisoning public discourse, even to the extent of getting labeled as “toxic swamps full of trolls, liars and bots.” But as Facebook and Twitter become a conduit for bad actors to manipulate news, set agendas, and propagate toxic viewpoints, they’ve moved far from being just a
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