A new study shows that philosophers with expertise on social discounting and intergenerational distribution want to put more emphasis on the conditions of future generations in climate economic calculations. But they fundamentally ...
Environment
May 26, 2023
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Finnish children will have a free hobby during the school day thanks to funding from the government of Finland. Behind the scenes the art education researchers together with different cultural organizations have worked actively ...
Education
Jun 26, 2020
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(AP) -- Netflix has canceled a sequel to a $1 million contest to improve its movie recommendations.
Business
Mar 12, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California at San Diego put a single-story house to the test on January 26 via a series of strong simulated earthquake shakes. The first jolt to the wood-stud structure with ...
Engineering
Feb 2, 2009
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(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers has uploaded a paper they've written to the preprint server arXiv describing a way to improve recommendation engines, using principles from particle physics. The idea, they say, is to use ...
In music recommender systems, it's important to design user controls that hit the sweet spot between the perceived quality of recommendations and acceptable cognitive load, concludes TU Delft researcher Nava Tintarev. Together ...
Internet
Oct 3, 2018
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(AP) -- Social networking hub MySpace said Wednesday it is acquiring iLike, a popular music application on rival Facebook, in the first move by new management to expand after a series of drastic cuts and writedowns.
Internet
Aug 19, 2009
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Facebook, YouTube, Twitter—in the space of barely a decade, these massive data platforms and others have transformed society. But each is like a black box: While they are blamed for undermining public health and eroding ...
Social Sciences
Feb 14, 2022
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A team of sociologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in the U.K. has found evidence via surveys and viewer tracking that most of the audience watching extremist videos on YouTube are people who ...
UK and international representatives from civil society and beyond are calling on the UK Government to better support refugees coming from Ukraine, in a report by UCL experts for the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner ...
Social Sciences
Apr 29, 2022
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