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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Facebook said Wednesday it was making changes designed to keep its users from linking to “low-quality” websites, part of an effort to fight spam and misinformation. The world’s biggest social network said it is updating its ranking algorithm with the help of artificial intelligence so users would see fewer posts “that link to these low-quality web page experiences.” “With this update, we reviewed hundreds of thousands of web pages linked […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The sweet history of chocolate is assembled in New York’s first chocolate museum founded by famed pastry chef and chocolatier, Jacques Torres. For Torres, the museum is an opportunity to share his passion with others. “I love to transfer the love that I have for chocolate and the knowledge that I have for chocolates to whoever wants to learn about it. So museum makes the perfect sense to bring […]
Reuters — Virtual doctors could bring health information to patients’ smartphones with a new app being developed at the University of Southern California’s Center for Body Computing. The DocOn app aims to create avatars of medical experts and allow their patients to ask them questions about conditions and treatment, instead of watching videos or searching for information online. Dr. Leslie Saxon, a cardiologist and the executive director of the Center for Body Computing, hopes the […]
FALMER, United Kingdom (AFP) — A super material made of tiny 3D-printed bricks will allow people to create their own acoustics by diffracting, scattering and refracting sounds, using their own do-it-yourself kit, say British-based researchers. Scientists at the universities of Sussex and Bristol created 3D printed metamaterial bricks which bend, shape and focus sound waves that pass through it. Each individual brick works by slowing down the sound through a series of flaps that coils […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Alaskan tundra appears to be emitting more carbon dioxide than it captures, a dynamic that could accelerate climate warming as vast stores of CO2 trapped in Arctic soils are unlocked by rising temperatures. A question scientists have had is whether a warming climate would lead to a greater intake of CO2 through photosynthesis during the summer growing season. But a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National […]
A Mexican who weighs more than half a ton gets ready to receive surgery to lose weight.
Making a film is a test of talent, team spirit, and requires a lot of patience! The videographic is about making movies, from script to screen. AFP-VIDEOGRAPHIC https://youtu.be/DFxj470xJNQ
PIURA, Peru (Reuters) — Wildlife experts from Peru and Ecuador inspected the health of 27 baby Galapagos tortoises, a highly endangered species, that were recently rescued from a group of traffickers trying to take them to Europe, according to local media reports. A group of members from Ecuador’s National Forestry and Wildlife Service (Serfor) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation said the tortoises were in good health. After a morphological evaluation, specialists concluded the […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse BONN, Germany (AFP) — Uncertainty over America’s future in the climate-rescue Paris Agreement loomed large over United Nations talks in Bonn Monday, aimed at working out the nuts and bolts of implementing the hard-fought international deal. US President Donald Trump has yet to announce whether he intends keeping a campaign promise to withdraw Washington from the pact in whose birth his predecessor, Barack Obama, was instrumental. Media reports have […]
VARMDO, Sweden (Reuters) — Swedish wetlands near the capital Stockholm are being kept saturated for longer to increase the numbers of pike coming to spawn in warm, sheltered waters in the spring. The pike “factory” not only helps restore biodiversity in the wetland, it also helps reduce algal bloom in the Baltic Sea as increased numbers of the predator allow smaller organisms to eat the algal bloom. The conservation effort began in 2013, with shrubs […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch officials on Monday opened what is being billed as one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms, with 150 turbines spinning in action far out in the North Sea. Over the next 15 years, the Gemini windpark, which lies some 85 kilometers (53 miles) off the northern coast of The Netherlands, will meet the energy needs of about 1.5 million people. At full winds the windpark has a generating […]
May 8 is World Migratory Bird Day Infographics by Dex Magno Research by Jodi Bustos, edited by Jay Paul Carlos
