New Research: Contagious Diseases Spread a Lot Like Memes. China launches coronavirus 'close contact detector' app. Image copyright Getty Images China has launched an app that allows people to check whether they have been at risk of catching the coronavirus.
The 'close contact detector' tells users if they have been near a person who has been confirmed or suspected of having the virus. People identified as being at risk are advised to stay at home and inform local health authorities. Go read this report on how the coronavirus is pushing Chinese concerts online. Many cities in China are still in quarantine lockdown in efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak, pushing most activities online.
Day-to-day activities like grocery orders and university classes are affected, but so is live entertainment. Music venues are shuttered across the country, rendering the country’s live music scene “temporarily dead and silent.” The Hottest New Literary Genre Is ‘Doomer Lit’ This Montreal startup wants to bring haptic feedback to car screens. Montreal-based startup, Boréas Technologies, is on a mission to bring the haptic feedback so common in mobile device touchscreens over to the infotainment displays in vehicles.
Boréas develops haptic tech for both consumer and commercial applications and introduced the BOS1211 at CES 2020. Coronavirus Closures: Here’s All the Art, Music, Sports Going Dark. Streets, schools, and places of worship have turned into ghost towns.
The Coronavirus Experiment in Working From Home. The geographic concentration of jobs also means that the powerful industries are clustered in a handful of rich cities.
Eighty percent of U.S. venture-capital investment goes to just three states—California, New York, and Massachusetts—and about 70 percent of all internet-publishing jobs are either in the Acela corridor between Washington and Boston or the western crescent from Seattle to Phoenix. MIT Develops AI to Update Wikipedia. Keeping encyclopedia entries up to date can be difficult.
Still, MIT researchers believe they’ve found a way to make life easier for those engaged with ensuring the world’s most frequented encyclopedia is up to date. The MIT team used an artificial intelligence agent to locate specific information within Wikipedia articles and updated them while keeping the tone and style of the initial material.
Based on current methods of updating the tool should make life a lot easier for members of the edit team. One of the most delicate parts of the process is ensuring that the style matches that of the article throughout. Ikea is helping to redesign simulated Mars habitats. Emotion AI Researchers Feel Their Work is Misunderstood. Study suggests that inquiry-based stress-reduction can help reduce anxiety and procrastination – Solving Procrastination. A study that was recently published in Frontiers in Psychology suggests that a novel cognitive technique can help reduce anxiety and procrastination.
The study was motivated by prior research, which shows that people often procrastinate because they’re anxious about a task that they have to complete. In many cases, this anxiety can occur as a result of issues with people’s self-efficacy, which is a person’s appraisal of their ability to complete a specific task. Marriage Has Become a Trophy. Matt Benoit / goir / timurockart / Nerthuz / Manon_Labe / Shutterstock / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The decline of marriage is upon us.
Or, at least, that’s what the zeitgeist would have us believe. In 2010, when Time magazine and the Pew Research Center famously asked Americans whether they thought marriage was becoming obsolete, 39 percent said yes. That was up from 28 percent when Time asked the question in 1978. Half of Canadians say crime is rising in their communities, as confidence in police, courts wanes. Percentage of Canadians who perceive an increase in crime up from 30% to 48% over past six years January 10, 2020 – Crime rates in Canada dropped precipitously from 1991 until 2014, falling more than 50 per cent during that period.
Hippocampal-dependent appetitive control is impaired by experimental exposure to a Western-style diet. Une mère endeuillée revoit sa fille grâce à la réalité virtuelle. Jang Ji-sung, mère de quatre enfants, a perdu sa fille Nayeon, qui a succombé à une maladie rare et incurable en 2016.
On a créé un avatar de la petite fille en utilisant les images d’un enfant modèle et des photos de Nayeon, âgée de sept ans au moment de son décès. La réunion virtuelle s’est tenue pour l’émission Meeting You, diffusée sur la chaîne de télévision sud-coréenne Munwha, selon ce que rapporte le journal Aju Business Daily. Le but de l’émission est de donner à des personnes vivant un deuil la chance de dire un dernier adieu à leurs proches. Munie d’un casque de réalité virtuelle, Mme Jang a pu voir et entendre sa fille en version numérique, et même la toucher, grâce à des gants haptiques, qui permettent de ressentir les objets virtuels. La rencontre s’est déroulée dans un parc virtuel où mère et fille ont pu échanger quelques mots avant que cette dernière aille se coucher, en affirmant qu’elle ne souffrait plus.
C’est peut-être ça, le vrai paradis. The New Authoritarianism. A third strategy, which has had remarkable success in Latin America in particular, is to challenge the very legality of term limits in court. This strategy constitutes about 15 percent of evasion attempts since the turn of the millennium. In Nicaragua, for example, President Daniel Ortega was able to successfully remove term limits from his nation’s constitution by arguing that they were a violation of his human rights.
New Diversity Rules for Social Media in Germany - Centre for Media Pluralism and Freedom. By Jan Christopher Kalbhenn, LL.M. (Amsterdam) Background: The rise of Social Media Obviously one of the most pressing challenges for media regulators is the increasing use of algorithmic-driven news aggregators and the growing dominance and gatekeeper position of big platforms, especially social media platforms. The Internet serves as a space for public communication and opinion formation. Trump’s words used by kids to bully classmates at school - Washington Post. YouTube Poop And The ‘Sanic’ Boom: Digesting The Strangest Slice Of Google’s $15B Video Business. The Frameworks Brain Story » Alberta Family Wellness Initiative. Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey – report.