Numbers Are Persuasive—If Used in Moderation
Despite high levels of innumeracy and math anxiety, people often appreciate numeric data.....»»
Duolingo lays off huge numbers in favour of AI translators
Duolingo adds to the number of multimillion businesses that are laying off their staff in favour of inefficient AI solutions. The post Duolingo lays off huge numbers in favour of AI translators appeared first on Phandroid. Popular language.....»»
GTA 5 cheats: codes and phone numbers PS4, PS5, Xbox, and PC
While GTA 5 may give players the keys to do nearly anything, these GTA 5 cheats and secrets will only expand upon the potential chaos that will ensue......»»
Saving the African penguin from climate change and overfishing
A hatchery and protected sanctuary in South Africa is boosting penguin numbers. Enlarge / African penguins on a beach near Simon's Town in South Africa. (credit: spooh) CAPE TOWN, South Africa—A weathered, green buildi.....»»
Ookla Ranks Top 10 5G Markets and US Unsurprisingly Absent
Ookla has published its State of Worldwide Connectivity report for 2023. There is a ton of insight in there for people concerned with 5G, access to data, and internet speed numbers in general. However, also in this latest report is a bit of depressio.....»»
Long-run decline in US poverty continued in recent years despite pandemic, new report shows
Poverty has fallen by 27 percentage points since 1980, according to new research from the University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago and Baylor University. This change is in sharp contrast with official U.S. Census Bureau numbers indicating.....»»
EU will hold 3 major porn sites to same regulations as Meta, X
Xvideos, Pornhub, and Stripchat face curbs on age verification, content moderation. Enlarge (credit: ToolX via Getty Images) Three of the world’s biggest pornography sites will be hit with new regulatory curbs includin.....»»
Kia allegedly withholding Canadian deliveries after 2023 sales target was met, CBC reports
Kia Canada is deliberately delaying delivery of vehicles to customers in a bid to distort sales numbers, according to a CBC News report......»»
Bats declined as Britain felled trees for colonial shipbuilding, says new study
Bat numbers declined as Britain's trees were felled for shipbuilding in the early colonial period, new research shows. The work is published in the Journal of Applied Ecology......»»
Waterbird numbers up after La Niña years: Aerial survey
Widespread flooding and environmental flows have been a boon for our waterbirds and wetlands—but long-term decline is persisting......»»
You Asked: Do perfect LCD panels exist?
In this installment of You Asked: Is there such a thing as a perfect LCD panel? What is frame rate control? And we'll decode Samsung soundbar model numbers......»»
Fractal photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators to generate multiple quantum chiral edge states
An anomalous Floquet topological insulator (AFTI) is a periodically driven topological insulator (TI with nonzero winding numbers to support topological edge modes, though its standard topological invariants like Chern numbers are zero......»»
Intel, of all companies, knocks AMD’s CPU numbering in now-deleted presentation
When it comes to recycling and rebranding old chips, no one's hands are clean. Enlarge / A now-deleted Intel presentation makes a good point, but with a side of disingenuousness. AMD changed the way it numbers its Ryze.....»»
Study shows diverse college classrooms linked to better STEM learning outcomes for all students
Students achieve better grades in college science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses when those classrooms have higher numbers of underrepresented racial-minority and first-generation college students, according to new research publish.....»»
Climate change by numbers
As countries try to hammer out a response to climate change at the COP28 talks in Dubai, here are some key figures about how fossil fuels have warmed our world......»»
RDRS: ICANN’s new service for easier access to nonpublic domain data
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has launched the Registration Data Request Service (RDRS). The RDRS is a new service that introduces a more consistent and standardized format to handle requests for access to nonpublic.....»»
Teaching physics from the din of flying discs
Disc golf is booming, with record numbers of players turning up each year to partake in the disc-throwing sport. It is also whizzing and whistling. In fact, the sound a disc makes while soaring through the air toward its target is full of information.....»»
1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study
AI chatbot deception paper suggests that some bots (and people) aren't very persuasive. Enlarge / An artist's impression of a human and a robot talking. (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) In a preprint research paper.....»»
Apple Watch sees best ever Q3 numbers, as Huawei hurts Samsung
New market intelligence data suggests that the Apple Watch has seen its best ever Q3 shipments, up 7% year-on-year. The latest Apple Watch SE was credited with contributing “significantly” to that growth. The biggest winner was Huawei, which t.....»»
Venezuela zoo welcomes three white lion cubs
A Venezuelan zoo this week welcomed the country's first three white lion cubs born in captivity, a boost for the genetically rare animal whose wild population numbers only about a dozen living in their native South Africa......»»
Study finds urban waterfowl are important seed dispersers for native and alien plants
Our park ponds typically hold good numbers of mallards, and urban grassy areas often hold concentrations of geese. In the UK, Canada Geese are an abundant and widespread alien species, well known for fouling parks with their feces......»»