Researchers from Ohio State University trained the algorithm to guess which political party members of Congress belonged to by analyzing their tweets about the pandemic. It correctly identified their party 76% of the time, according to their study. The AI scanned all 30,887 tweets that current members of Congress wrote about COVID-19, from the first one on January 17 to March 31. Notably, the polarization wasn’t evident at the start of the outbreak....

The Tesla tycoon briefly topped the Bloomberg Billionaires Index earlier this year, although he’s since slipped down to third place, behind space rival Jeff Bezos and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault. Still, a fortune of $146.5 billion is a decent chunk of cash to plow into his companies, cars, and a curious collection of charities, from a temple at Burning Man to a protest group fighting gridlock on his commute to work....

In China and the US, auto shows are back with a vengeance and they’re not taking any prisoners. In the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen a whole host of cool stuff coming out of the massive LA Auto Show and Guangzhou International Auto Show. Now, if you’re looking for some serious breakdown on what the shows’ new releases mean, you’ve come to the wrong place. Because I’m much more interested in diving into the vehicles that encompass the weird, the eclectic, and the bizarre....

Enter MasterWiki, a new online school (of sorts) that blatantly stole the content of MasterClass and repackaged it as a wikiHow. It’s practically the best of both worlds — superficial insights from celebrities, accompanied by gaudy illustrations that may or may not make any sense. You want to know how to make the perfect scrambled eggs? No worries, Gordon Ramsey’s MasterWiki’s got you covered. Looking to sharpen your tennis serves?...

Management has most often been associated with soft skills, all those non-technical abilities that impact how you interact with co-workers, solve problems and navigate through the political side of your professional life. But when you dig into the tenets of project management, you might be surprised to learn that it’s actually chock full of hard skills. Because to know how to successfully lead a project from ideation through to successful completion, there are plenty of systems and processes and basic resource management structures that you need to understand....

Our modern understanding of time and causality comes from general relativity. Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein’s theory combines space and time into a single entity — “spacetime” — and provides a remarkably intricate explanation of how they both work, at a level unmatched by any other established theory. This theory has existed for more than 100 years, and has been experimentally verified to extremely high precision, so physicists are fairly certain it provides an accurate description of the causal structure of our universe....

While reading this list, keep in mind prices for audio gear fluctuate regularly – the prices listed are those at the time of writing. And if you’re buying for yourself, don’t forget to shop for used deals to get the most bang for your buck. Traditional speakers for the audiophile These are speakers that do not come with their power sources and thus need to be plugged into an amplifier like an A/V Reciever....

As the old saying goes, you need the right tools for the job. For those who want to get their website tuned up with prime keywords, strong linking and other strategies to hit the top of Google search rankings, that means assembling just the right tool kit to make that happen. Seobility puts all those web optimization abilities into one easy-to-use package dedicated to supercharging your site’s visibility. Right now, their suite of features is available at the limited time discounted price of just $29 from TNW Deals....

The broadcaster claims Trump’s digital campaign team used the cache to build psychological profiles of millions of US citizens across 16 key battleground states. An algorithm then divided them into eight different categories, including core supporters on each side and “deadbeats” that were unlikely to vote. Another segment of people that the campaign wanted to dissuade from voting was marked as “Deterrence.” A total of 3.5 million Black Americans were placed in this group, and then micro-targeted with ads on Facebook and other platforms, such as videos of Clinton’s notorious “super predators” speech....

Due to some internal server issues, we are posting this slightly late. We apologize for the delay. Twitter has long kept a very tight grip on just who can have access to the stream of Twitter updates. All of them, that is. Limited access is open to anyone and everyone who wants to play. According to the company, some 50,000 are using the rate limited APIs. Twitter was long rumored to give out very limited access to the firehose (all tweets in real time) due to scaling problems....

The social network said that it’ll display a prompt on Android and iOS for conversations it thinks can get intense. The prompt seems to remind you of basic moral values like “Remember the human (in the conversation) and “diverse perspective have values.” This is a work in progress as we learn how to better support healthy conversation. pic.twitter.com/x6Nsn3HPu1 — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) October 6, 2021 The prompt doesn’t come as a surprise to me....

As a recap, the feature essentially calls you out when you try to retweet an article that you haven’t opened on Twitter. Before you’re able to share, you’ll see a prompt telling you that “headlines don’t tell the full story.” You’ll then have to confirm you want to share. Twitter says that since it began testing the feature with a limited number of users, it has noticed: People open articles 40% more often after seeing the prompt people opening articles before retweeting in general increased by 33% Some people end up not retweeting after actually opening the article...

The system doesn’t merely imitate the Moonwalk, the Renegade, or whatever other moves the kidz are busting on TikTok these days. Instead, it creates entirely new routines that are “synchronized and surprising” — “the two main criteria of a creative dance,” according to Facebook. The company claims the system can vanquish the choreographer’s equivalent of writer’s block. Frustrated dancers need only play it a song, and the system will analyze the tune and spit back some original synchronized moves....

Ok, that sounds pretty bleak, but in other words: the UK government has finally closed a loophole in legislation which made it illegal for drivers to text or call on their mobile phones whilst driving, but didn’t hold them to the same standard if they were playing games or taking pictures. Before these new laws it was fine to cruise whilst playing Candy Crush, but not ok to drive and text at the same time, despite the level of distraction being largely the same....

It’s no different for gamers. Contrary to popular belief, gaming is not an isolated – or isolating – activity. Social interaction is at the heart of what makes gaming enjoyable for a lot of people, which is why you have such large and loyal communities built around gaming. Like most fruitful entrepreneurial ideas out there, Clutch was born out of the itch to solve a problem that its founders experienced themselves....

According to Valve, the game takes place between Half-Lives 1 & 2, and stars, as the name suggests, future Freeman ally Alyx Vance. The official description of the story reads: Alyx will be fighting off Combine soldiers with a variety of weapons and tools, including some baller gravity gloves, which you can see in the featured image up top. The gameplay sounds like your typical VR-based gameplay on steriods: “Rummage through shelves to find a healing syringe and some shotgun shells....

Revenge porn isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, but with advancements in AI, “deepfakes” — an AI-based technology used to digitally produce or alter realistic looking video content — are becoming increasingly harder to distinguish from real videos. To combat this, Virginia just became one of the first states in the US to impose criminal penalties on the spread of non-consensual, computer-generated “deepfake” images and videos. The amendment officially went into effect yesterday, the Verge reported, and means that anyone found guilty of distributing deepfake material will face a sentence of up to 12 months in prison and up to $2,500 in fines....

This makes Volvo the first automaker to embark on the search of a green alternative for steel production, which is otherwise responsible for about 7% of global direct carbon emissions. Specifically, steelmaking has a big carbon footprint, generating last year over 3 billion tons of CO2. That’s because the furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal, which is a major energy source, but a fossil fuel nonetheless....

That’s why it’s important for brands to begin educating themselves on VR today. Marketers need to understand the basics of VR, and how they can use it to enhance brand awareness, promote products, help customers experience products and services, and accelerate the decision to make a purchase. First, what exactly is VR? Simply stated, Virtual Reality is a simulated experience that puts the user into another world or dimension. The compelling nature of this other-worldly experience is exactly why VR has been so successful in the gaming world....

Usually his flamboyant gymkhana runs feature the soundtrack from a crazy powerful combustion engine that sings a roaring overture as he threads his way round a racetrack with pinpoint precision. Times are changing, and the days of exhaust noise are numbered. Motorsports are capitalizing on the rising interest in electric vehicles, and are moving to electrify their race series. Meaning drivers like Block have to get their head around these new types of vehicle, and we’ll hear totally new sounds during races....