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You are not your Twitter timeline. That much is obvious. Your Twitter experience is created by people you follow. If you’re on Twitter to grow, to become a better professional player in your field, then read along. Because it’s time to reconsider who you’re following and why. Why now? Why NOT now? Interests Your interests are represented on Twitter by the accounts you follow. These can be quickly divided into people likeyouandme, and brands likeTheNextWeb....

In 2021, aninvestigationrevealed that home loan algorithms systematically discriminate against qualified minority applicants. Unfortunately, stories of dubious profit-driven data uses like this are all too common. Meanwhile,laws often impedenonprofits and public health agencies from using similar data – like credit and financial data – to alleviate inequities or improve people’s well-being. Legal data limitations have even been a factor in the fight against the coronavirus. Health and behavioral data iscritical to combatingtheCOVID-19 pandemic, but public health agencies have often beenunable to access important information– including government and consumer data – to fight the virus....

As everyday mobile data use increasingly becomes the norm, it can be a real wrench to go abroad and suddenly find yourself without access to email, apps and the Web. Yes, roaming charges for mobile data are so expensive that generally, the only thing to do is to switch off your phone’s Internet connection completely. Your smartphone becomes a dumbphone from the second you touch down in a foreign land to the moment you arrive on home soil....

Why vacuum cleaner bags make the most effective face masks Simulating coughing So, our teamdevised an experimentto examine how well 20 commonly available fabrics and household materials could filter virus-sized particles at coughing speed. We designed an apparatus to hold a fabric sample that was one inch in diameter. Air was then passed through this sample at approximately 16.5 meters per second – the average speed of an adult cough as it leaves the mouth....

Have you heard ofValdivia? If not, you should, because it’s known to be one of the most beautiful places in South America. If you’re interested in startups, it’s not the only reason you may want to pay attention. Indeed, it’s also there thatWebprendedorstarted on Sunday. Aimed at fostering web entrepreneurship in Chile, the event was launched in 2006, but it’s the first time it expands beyond Santiago and Concepcion. So what happens when Silicon Valley geeks and Chilean wannabe entrepreneurs get together in a small city in Southern Chile?...