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Recommendation systems that direct users towards similar content may create echo chambers, reinforcing existing viewpoints and limiting exposure to alternatives.
The study investigated how women’s intrasexual competition influences appearance advice, specifically hair-cutting recommendations, across two studies with female participants.
A study with nearly 2,000 participants explored how prompts must evolve as generative AI models advance.
Over 20 influencers were elected to the Indonesian parliament this year, reflecting the growing role of celebrities in politics.
Waymo expanded its fully autonomous driving from 3.8 million to 25.3 million miles.
After a long journey, the author meets the Mali people in Papua New Guinea, who live in small villages using traditional building methods and sell crops like coffee and copra for money to buy tools and donate in temple rituals.
The art market often facilitates anonymous, high-value purchases and large cash transactions, making it an ideal avenue for money laundering.
Main character syndrome is the perception that one’s life is a story where they are the central character.
Yucatán, Mexico, partnered with the AI-powered app MeMind in 2022 to prevent suicides, leading to a 9% drop in the suicide rate.
Germany experienced a wind drought (“Dunkelflaute”) for the second time in a month, significantly reducing wind and solar power generation.
Neoliberalism, combining free markets with egalitarianism, has been more successfully adopted by countries with strong civic virtue like Denmark, leading to effective reforms away from statism, unlike countries like Greece where reforms were hindered by special interests.
Purple prose is overly ornate text that disrupts the narrative flow by drawing attention to its extravagant style.
Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) requires all expenditures to be justified anew each period, starting from a zero baseline instead of previous spending levels.
Realpolitik is resurging globally, with countries like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea practising it, and Trump’s approach focusing on deals that benefit the US narrowly, marking a shift from ideological engagement to national interests.
Since the last plane crash, US airlines have transported passengers over a distance exceeding two light-years.
At E11’s laboratory in Alameda, California, researchers developed a technique where viruses carrying DNA snippets are injected into a mouse brain, instructing neurons to produce unique proteins that act as biological barcodes.
The use of AI monitoring software in a Malawian clinic has reduced stillbirths and neonatal deaths by 82% over three years.
According to Todai Shimbun, Tokyo University’s student newspaper, a graduate admissions site embedded the keyword “June 4th Tiananmen” for over a year.
A retrospective study compared the efficacy of sublingual (SL) versus intramuscular (IM) vitamin B12 administration in treating vitamin B12 deficiency.
In 2023, the author interviewed historian Richard Rhodes about the unexpected success of nuclear non-proliferation, noting that predictions in the 1960s foresaw many more nuclear-armed states.
Chairman Mao promoted Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for political reasons, despite not believing in its effectiveness or using it personally.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that WhatsApp has reached 100 million monthly active users in the US as of 25th July.
Entrants in platform markets usually need revolutionary functionality due to network effects and switching costs.
The paper analyses Hong Kong’s transition from a British legal system to Chinese political control as a natural experiment in the rule of law.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s use of generative AI tools has halved customer losses from scams and reduced fraud by 30%.