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Today, we have The New York Times and The Washington Post repeatedly publishing front-page articles about allegations that some #Russians with “links” to the Kremlin bought $100,000 in #Facebook ads to promote some issues deemed hurtful to #HillaryClinton’s campaign although some of the ads ran after the election.
Initially, Facebook could find no evidence of even that small effort but was pressured in May by Sen. #MarkWarner, D-Virginia. The Washington Post reported that Warner, who is spearheading the #RussiaGate investigation in the Senate Intelligence Committee, flew to Silicon Valley and urged Facebook executives to take another look at possible ad buys.
Facebook responded to this congressional pressure by scouring its billions of monthly users and announced that it had located 470 suspect accounts associated with ads totaling $100,000 – out of Facebook’s $27 billion in annual revenue.
Here is how the Times described those findings: “Facebook officials disclosed that they had shut down several hundred accounts that they believe were created by a Russian company linked to the Kremlin and used to buy $100,000 in ads pushing divisive issues during and after the American election campaign.” (It sometimes appears that every Russian — all 144 million of them — is somehow “linked” to the Kremlin.)
Initially, Facebook could find no evidence of even that small effort but was pressured in May by Sen. #MarkWarner, D-Virginia. The Washington Post reported that Warner, who is spearheading the #RussiaGate investigation in the Senate Intelligence Committee, flew to Silicon Valley and urged Facebook executives to take another look at possible ad buys.
Facebook responded to this congressional pressure by scouring its billions of monthly users and announced that it had located 470 suspect accounts associated with ads totaling $100,000 – out of Facebook’s $27 billion in annual revenue.
Here is how the Times described those findings: “Facebook officials disclosed that they had shut down several hundred accounts that they believe were created by a Russian company linked to the Kremlin and used to buy $100,000 in ads pushing divisive issues during and after the American election campaign.” (It sometimes appears that every Russian — all 144 million of them — is somehow “linked” to the Kremlin.)
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There’s a new photography podcast from the folks behind Fuji Love magazine: Photography Radio. Each episode features in-depth interviews with influential photographers from all over the world, read more on the 500px blog: https://hubs.ly/H08JNBG0
#500px
#500px
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All NFL fans should be rooting for Jerry Jones in this! Goodell is ruining the league and needs to go before it's too late.
#DallasCowboys #JerryJones #RogerGoodell #NFL
#DallasCowboys #JerryJones #RogerGoodell #NFL
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Highly precise wiring in the cerebral cortex
Our brains house extremely complex neuronal circuits whose detailed structures are still largely unknown. This is especially true for the cerebral cortex of mammals, where, among other things, vision, thoughts or spatial orientation are computed. Here, the rules by which nerve cells are connected to each other are only partly understood. A team of scientists around Moritz Helmstaedter at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research have now discovered a surprisingly precise nerve cell connectivity pattern in the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsible for orienting the individual animal or human in space. The researchers report online in Nature that synapses in this region of the brain are sorted very precisely along the electrical cables of the nerve cells. The nerve cells establish an unexpectedly precise circuit motive in which inhibitory nerve cells are contacted before the activation of the next nerve cell can be executed. This motif of nerve cell "trios" is a core connectivity motif in the cerebral cortex. Scientists speculate that such a highly precise circuit motive could be used for computing hypotheses about the next step in space. Connectomics researchers have now used their repertoire of measuring and analysis techniques to study the part of the cerebral cortex in which grid cells provide a very particular representation of the space around the individual animal or human. These grid cells are active when the animal or human is located at highly ordered grid-like locations in a room or a large space. Previously, scientists had already found a special arrangement of nerve cells in this region of the brain, and had speculated that within these special cell assemblies, particular nerve cell circuits could exist.
Our brains house extremely complex neuronal circuits whose detailed structures are still largely unknown. This is especially true for the cerebral cortex of mammals, where, among other things, vision, thoughts or spatial orientation are computed. Here, the rules by which nerve cells are connected to each other are only partly understood. A team of scientists around Moritz Helmstaedter at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research have now discovered a surprisingly precise nerve cell connectivity pattern in the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsible for orienting the individual animal or human in space. The researchers report online in Nature that synapses in this region of the brain are sorted very precisely along the electrical cables of the nerve cells. The nerve cells establish an unexpectedly precise circuit motive in which inhibitory nerve cells are contacted before the activation of the next nerve cell can be executed. This motif of nerve cell "trios" is a core connectivity motif in the cerebral cortex. Scientists speculate that such a highly precise circuit motive could be used for computing hypotheses about the next step in space. Connectomics researchers have now used their repertoire of measuring and analysis techniques to study the part of the cerebral cortex in which grid cells provide a very particular representation of the space around the individual animal or human. These grid cells are active when the animal or human is located at highly ordered grid-like locations in a room or a large space. Previously, scientists had already found a special arrangement of nerve cells in this region of the brain, and had speculated that within these special cell assemblies, particular nerve cell circuits could exist.
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“I was reading about Saturn’s moon Enceladus, and how scientists believe it has liquid water oceans beneath its water-ice crust. And yet I also read that the warmest surface temperatures are -90 celsius. How can this moon have liquid water? […] At such cold temperatures and low pressures it seems Enceladus can have water ice and water gas but not liquid. What am I missing?”
Here on Earth, water can easily exist in all three phases of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. The reason for this is simple: Earth has the right range of temperatures and pressures to experience not just the common solid and gas phases, but the liquid water phase, too. In the outer Solar System, worlds like Europa, Enceladus, and Pluto are too far from the Sun to ever reach surface temperatures high enough to create a liquid phase; it seems that water is a no-go. But there must be subsurface oceans on these worlds! Not only is there geological evidence of an ocean beneath a thick layer of ice, but on some worlds, like Enceladus, we can actually see large plumes of liquid water ejected hundreds of kilometers above the surface, like some sort of planet-scale geyser. While the increased pressure from the ice plays a role, it isn’t enough on its own; there must be other factors, too.
How do worlds that never get above freezing actually come to have liquid water on their surfaces? Find out on this week’s Ask Ethan!
Here on Earth, water can easily exist in all three phases of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. The reason for this is simple: Earth has the right range of temperatures and pressures to experience not just the common solid and gas phases, but the liquid water phase, too. In the outer Solar System, worlds like Europa, Enceladus, and Pluto are too far from the Sun to ever reach surface temperatures high enough to create a liquid phase; it seems that water is a no-go. But there must be subsurface oceans on these worlds! Not only is there geological evidence of an ocean beneath a thick layer of ice, but on some worlds, like Enceladus, we can actually see large plumes of liquid water ejected hundreds of kilometers above the surface, like some sort of planet-scale geyser. While the increased pressure from the ice plays a role, it isn’t enough on its own; there must be other factors, too.
How do worlds that never get above freezing actually come to have liquid water on their surfaces? Find out on this week’s Ask Ethan!
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Why Israel Is Against 2 States Solution On Palestine - The United Nations Security Council meeting, an annual event, started its 72nd session few days ago at the UN Headquarters in United States of America. More than 100 world leaders, thousands of diplomats and advocates are presently in New York City, in an event scheduled to hold from 19-25 September 2017 to fashion out a way forward in pursuit of global peace and security. This year rsqu ...
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09/22-23/2017 That That Is Like Never Before in the America's History: We Will Make America Proud! We Will Make America Safe! We Will Make America Great Again! President Trump in 'Sweet Home Alabama', Gives Extraordinary Powerful Speech! This Rally is A Phenomenally Terrific! President Donald J.Trump Campaign for Alabama Senator #LutherStrange in #Huntsville, Alabama Rally 2017! You Tube!
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T h e C o r o n a t i o n { Aurora , Northern , Norway }
~By Stefan Hefele
Have a Wonderful Night | Good Night
#aurora #nightsky #landscape #photography #winter #mountain #500px
~By Stefan Hefele
Have a Wonderful Night | Good Night
#aurora #nightsky #landscape #photography #winter #mountain #500px
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Wize Video Editor beta
https://www.testingcatalog.com/project/609/reports
This is an intuitive video editor. After a couple of attempts, I must say that for me it was a bit far from intuitive. Maybe controls position on the main screen is not that bad (and not unique at the same time) but the functionality and usability behind aren’t user-friendly.
The first thing I noticed is that I can only add images to the timeline and not videos. They are just not visible in the file browser. If it was an intention, the name of this app should be different because it is more an image-to-video converter/editor.
This app in general looks like a port of Linux software to the android which is not the best way to build an app. From the product side, I would suggest to throw out all features except core features like adding images to the timeline and video playback. This will focus development on the core functionality - allow the user to create good and interesting content (in a form of video with pictures).
Issues:
- The user can see a pre-selected picture on start which is confusing. The user should see a blank interface at the beginning and learn how to add/delete images to the timeline by himself.
- The font on the onSave pop-up with a tip about video editing is not readable (Screenshot). In addition to that - why the user would need those tips?
- Image browsing hangs on loading from time to time (50% chance) and the user cannot select an image.
- A play button doesn’t play a full set of pictures if there are many pictures.
- An app crashed once on the main screen after pressing back button from horizontal image selector.
- An image list resets sometimes after adding a new image (shows only on)
Those are just some of many.
#video #editor #image #videoeditor #editting #videos #betatesting #beta #testing #qa #androidtesting #softwaretesting #testmyapp #betaapps #mobileqa #testautomation #selenium #mobtesting #android #apkplz #androidapps #apps #googleplay #applications #app #androidapp #mobile #mobileapp #androiddev #development #java #dev #androiddevs #agile #tech #design #materialdesign #crash #bug #bugreport #issue #issuereport #report #review #feedback #freereview
https://www.testingcatalog.com/project/609/reports
This is an intuitive video editor. After a couple of attempts, I must say that for me it was a bit far from intuitive. Maybe controls position on the main screen is not that bad (and not unique at the same time) but the functionality and usability behind aren’t user-friendly.
The first thing I noticed is that I can only add images to the timeline and not videos. They are just not visible in the file browser. If it was an intention, the name of this app should be different because it is more an image-to-video converter/editor.
This app in general looks like a port of Linux software to the android which is not the best way to build an app. From the product side, I would suggest to throw out all features except core features like adding images to the timeline and video playback. This will focus development on the core functionality - allow the user to create good and interesting content (in a form of video with pictures).
Issues:
- The user can see a pre-selected picture on start which is confusing. The user should see a blank interface at the beginning and learn how to add/delete images to the timeline by himself.
- The font on the onSave pop-up with a tip about video editing is not readable (Screenshot). In addition to that - why the user would need those tips?
- Image browsing hangs on loading from time to time (50% chance) and the user cannot select an image.
- A play button doesn’t play a full set of pictures if there are many pictures.
- An app crashed once on the main screen after pressing back button from horizontal image selector.
- An image list resets sometimes after adding a new image (shows only on)
Those are just some of many.
#video #editor #image #videoeditor #editting #videos #betatesting #beta #testing #qa #androidtesting #softwaretesting #testmyapp #betaapps #mobileqa #testautomation #selenium #mobtesting #android #apkplz #androidapps #apps #googleplay #applications #app #androidapp #mobile #mobileapp #androiddev #development #java #dev #androiddevs #agile #tech #design #materialdesign #crash #bug #bugreport #issue #issuereport #report #review #feedback #freereview
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Carmelo Anthony Includes Cleveland Or Oklahoma City As Trade Destinations
NBA training camp begins next week. Carmelo Anthony is still a member of the New York Knicks.
The Knicks must get Anthony's approval prior to trading him with a no trade clause in his contract. The latest rumor related to Anthony is that he is willing to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers or the Oklahoma City Thunder. He was only willing to go to the Houston Rockets earlier this off-season.
What do you think about Anthony possibly going to the Cavs or the Thunder?
https://mindbodycollide.blogspot.com
NBA training camp begins next week. Carmelo Anthony is still a member of the New York Knicks.
The Knicks must get Anthony's approval prior to trading him with a no trade clause in his contract. The latest rumor related to Anthony is that he is willing to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers or the Oklahoma City Thunder. He was only willing to go to the Houston Rockets earlier this off-season.
What do you think about Anthony possibly going to the Cavs or the Thunder?
https://mindbodycollide.blogspot.com
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