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A look inside TikTok’s seemingly all-knowing algorithm

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Post Views: 328 This simplified breakdown of the algorithm offered “a revealing glimpse both of the app’s mathematical core and insight into the company’s understanding of human nature — our tendencies toward boredom, our sensitivity to cultural cues — that help explain why it’s so hard to put down,” wrote the Times. But it also…

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More people buy e-bikes than electric cars. Here’s how a bill would make them cheaper.

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Post Views: 397 E-bike sales are expected to reach 130 million by 2023, according to a 2020 report from the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications group at Deloitte, generating roughly $20 billion in proceeds. In some urban spaces, the presence of e-bikes could become increasingly common as more bike lanes are added, and cities employ e-bikes…

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It’s time to purge the worst people in your social media feeds

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Post Views: 309 Instagram has a way for you to see who you’ve interacted with least often: Tap your profile button (bottom right), then Following, and Least Interacted With. You’ll see the people you don’t often chat with or whose photos you rarely like and comment on. Simply tap Following to sever your Instagram connection…

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The Air Force is testing a less awkward replacement for ‘piddle packs’

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Post Views: 401 Developed by Omni Defense Technologies, “Skydrate” involves a pad for women and a cup for men. Pilots put on the cup or pad beneath a special pair of underwear. When it’s time to go, the pilot connects the cup or pad with a tube leading to a pump outside the flight suit….

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Avoid boring, repetitive work by getting your computer to do it instead

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Post Views: 334 These actions are typically called macros, though they go by various other names as well, depending on the software you’re using. You don’t need to have any coding knowledge to set them up, and they can save you a huge amount of time at your keyboard. If you’re using a software application…

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Fish sounds tell us about underwater reefs—but we need better tech to really listen

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Post Views: 286 Healthy reefs have a rich soundscape. “Lots of the invertebrates and the fishes make weird and wonderful noises for all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons. When you take recordings, you hear all these pops and buzzes and trills and whoops,” says Tim Lamont, a marine biology research fellow at the University…

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Here are all the changes Instagram promised Congress it would make

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Post Views: 357 Much of the recent attention on Meta has been in response to leaks from former Facebook employee France Haugen, who also took a turn testifying in October. Among the internal documents she shared were studies on children and teens, including research that found Instagram to have a negative effect on the self-esteem…