Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?

Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?

Altman says that as a micro-influencer she has a much more intimate relationship with her followers than a big social media star. “The problem with a lot of these social media posts is that you don’t know whether it’s an ad or not,” Patten says. “With social media being so integrated into our everyday lives, we have this unique opportunity that I don’t think anyone has ever had before where we can each be our own brand,” Altman says.

Source: www.npr.org

The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I

The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I

If it’s beneficial for companies to sprinkle in a little sex appeal and brand this as “A.I.,” there’s no incentive to stopThis has long passed its logical extremes. If it’s beneficial for companies to sprinkle in a little sex appeal and brand this as “A.I.,” there’s no incentive to stop them from doing so. Fed up with the fog that marketers have created, they’ve simply ditched A.I. and moved on to a new term called “artificial general intelligence.”

Source: gen.medium.com

Animating Meteorite Impacts

Animating Meteorite Impacts

The column also gives us the possibility of getting a few insights that related to time, which can be done by the package. Before we get into it, there are a few concepts I’d like to highlight here:

With those concepts out in the open, we can create our animation now! I’ve always enjoyed plotting maps, and this might be one of my favorite recent visualizations I’ve done!

Source: nishanksaini.netlify.com

Donate to Mozilla Thunderbird

Donate to Mozilla Thunderbird

Your payment details will be processed by Stripe (for credit/debit cards) or Paypal, and a record of your donation will be stored by Mozilla. Contributions go to the Mozilla Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization based in Mountain View, California, to support Thunderbird. Mozilla reserves the right to find another use for the funds if it determines that Thunderbird is no longer furthering Mozilla’s mission.

Source: donate.mozilla.org

Fresh look at mysterious Nasca lines in Peru

Fresh look at mysterious Nasca lines in Peru

Using a taxonomic approach, scientists have re-identified the huge birds drawn on the desert plains of Peru as hermits or pelicans. A scientific approach has been used to re-identify huge birds etched into the desert plains of southern Peru around 2,000 years ago. Masaki Eda of The Hokkaido University Museum, Takeshi Yamasaki of Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, and Masato Sakai of Yamagata University in Japan applied an ornithological approach to identify the 16 bird geoglyphs among more than 2,000 drawings present in the area.

Source: www.global.hokudai.ac.jp

Show HN: Guardscript – Detect any changes made to your JavaScript files

Show HN: Guardscript – Detect any changes made to your JavaScript files

Detect any malicious modification to your Javascript as soon as it happens

You give GuardScript the URL of the Javascript file that you want to monitor. GuardScript monitors regularly this file and detects any modifications

GuardScript sends you an email if the file is modified. We compute the hashes of the files regularly.

Source: www.guardscript.com

Scientists use nanoparticles to provide plants with nutrients

Scientists use nanoparticles to provide plants with nutrients

Scientists discover a new way to provide plants the nutrients they need to at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a new method for delivering key nutrients to plant roots – without having to ensure they’re present in the soil where the plants are growing. This method, described by researchers in detail in a new academic paper, would manage to improve efficiency to nearly 100% absorption of nutrients and pesticides delivered as nanoparticles (particles smaller than 50 nanometers across – a human hair is about 75,000 nanometers wide, for context) sprayed onto the leaves of plants, which then make their way through the plant’s internal vascular system all the way down into the root system. It would be cheaper to delivery all nutrients and pesticides, too, because the big bump in efficiency of uptake by the plants means you can use much less of anything you want to deliver to achieve your desired effect.

Source: techcrunch.com

Earbuds are bad for your hearing

Earbuds are bad for your hearing

A further study, from 2011, expanded on that research, finding that teens wearing earbuds turn their volume up to overcome background noise, some to harmful levels, more than those wearing noise-isolating, over-the-ear headphones. Brian Fligor, an audiologist who has studied the impact of earbuds on hearing damage, says that people typically listen to their earbuds about 13 decibels higher than the background noise. If you’re wearing headphones or earbuds in a school classroom, where the background noise usually runs at about 60 decibels, and you turn your music up to 73 decibels to compensate, that should be fine for most people’s ears.

Source: onezero.medium.com

Improving Performance with Batching Client GraphQL Queries

Improving Performance with Batching Client GraphQL Queries

It does however come with a performance cost as each component will fire off uncoordinated GraphQL queries as they are being mounted by React. In this article we will dive into transport-level query batching, an advanced Apollo feature that enables you to significantly improve performance of complex applications. By the end of this post, you should be able to answer the following questions about batching client operations with Apollo:

Batching is the process of taking a group of requests, combining them into one, and making a single request with the same data that all of the other queries would have made.

Source: ednsquare.com

A completely rebuilt, digitally-enabled Polaroid SX-70 camera

A completely rebuilt, digitally-enabled Polaroid SX-70 camera

With the lens selected, the next step was to get the entire assembly into the camera head. You can see from these photos that the thickness of the assembly was quite a lot deeper than the original. To get the lens to fit in the original housing, I used the plastic lens cap with the cover cut out; it served as a soft, perfectly sized gasket to hold the lens in place.

Source: gross.is