After years of criticism over its policies, Facebook rules now explicitly ban content that denies or distorts the truth about the Holocaust. The company’s decision–the latest in a slew of new policies aimed at cracking down misinformation from its feeds–comes amid a “rise in anti-Semitism globally,” and an “alarming level of ignorance about the Holocaust,…Read More
After overhauling NBCUniversal’s news and entertainment divisions, new CEO Jeff Shell has turned his attention to the business side, expanding Linda Yaccarino’s role at the company. Yaccarino has been promoted to chairman of global advertising and partnerships for NBCUuniversal. In addition to overseeing national advertising sales, ad sales marketing and global partnerships, Yaccarino will now…Read More
The sale and promotion of derivatives of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to amateur investors is being banned in the UK by the financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It is a further blow to the burgeoning cryptocurrency market, coming days after the US authorities indicted the owners of leading crypto derivatives exchange BitMex for operating without being US-registered and allegedly failing to follow anti-money-laundering rules. In view of recent findings from the University of Cambridge that most firms involved in crypto investments are still operating without a license, other operators are potentially vulnerable to indictments too. It all sounds…
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Hi-tech drug discovery firm Schrödinger, Inc. (SDGR) is up 100% since its IPO earlier this year, and one of Wall Street‘s “most intriguing and mysterious” billionaires just cashed in. David Shaw, the secretive 69-year-old investing legend, has now sold more than $127 million worth of SDGR stock in the past month alone. In that time, SDGR’s share price hovered between 217% and 233% above its February issue price of $17 — impressive, but well below SDGR’s $93 record high in September. These are noticeably Shaw’s first stock sales of any kind all year, according to finance portal Finviz. The moves were made…
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There’s a TikTok video that went viral in September. It’s a low-budget recording of a computer screen from a mobile phone, showing what appears to be a virtual classroom with five students in attendance in the middle of an icebreaker exercise. The camera first focuses on a woman sleeping in front of her laptop camera,…Read More
The UK supreme court has just heard an appeal from Uber that has far-reaching implications for UK drivers and the wider gig economy. Uber wants to overturn an employment tribunal ruling from 2016, which improved the lot of its drivers by classifying them as “workers” instead of “self-employed contractors.” If upheld, many Uber drivers can look forward to an hourly minimum wage, paid breaks, sick pay and holiday pay, and an average £12,000 in compensation for their past work – all provided they lodge a claim. Drivers with other companies won’t automatically benefit from the ruling, though it will create…
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TLDR: Get the jump on Prime Day with 10 deals of chargers, charging stations and power banks at similar huge discounts. Because you don’t live trapped in a cave under an ocean, we’ll assume you’re aware that Oct. 13 and 14 is Amazon Prime Day. The uber-retailer’s monster annual sale cutting prices on hundreds of items is practically a Christmas-level holiday for cost-conscious buyers. But why wait til then when you can get similar deals right now? For example, here are 10 offers on chargers, charging stations and power banks with savings up to 80 percent off. You can get…
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Disney remains one of the most admired brands in the world because it delivers memorable storytelling that moves people. It knows how to touch people’s hearts and has built an ecosystem where consumers can relive their beloved film or TV show through merchandise, music, live experiences, theme parks, etc.–a world-class system that few entertainment companies…Read More
Scientists at the University of Hawaii’s Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have used AI to produce the world’s largest 3D catalog of stars, galaxies, and quasars. The team developed the map using an optical survey of three-quarters of the sky produced by the Pan-STARRS observatory on Haleakalā, Maui. They trained an algorithm to identify celestial objects in the survey by feeding it spectroscopic measurements that provide definitive object classifications and distances. “Utilizing a state-of-the-art optimization algorithm, we leveraged the spectroscopic training set of almost 4 million light sources to teach the neural network to predict source types and galaxy distances, while at…
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Tips and tricks, especially in the programming world, can be very useful. Sometimes a little hack can be both time and life-saving. A minor shortcut or add-on can sometimes prove to be a Godsend and can be a real productivity booster. So, here are some of my favorite tips and tricks I’ve used and compiled together in the form of this article. Some may be fairly known and some may be new, but I’m sure they’ll come in pretty handy the next time you work on a data analysis project. Profiling the ‘pandas’ dataframe Profilingis a process that helps us…
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