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Photo Courtesty SDTH. Data For Good: Screenshot of tech experts during the Data Science For Good virtual workshop. Claude Jones says there is more to diversity than just numbers and hiring demographics. But he is making use of data through his work with San Diego Tech Hub (SDTH) to create a cultural shift that will lead to a more inclusive tech community. Jones founded San Diego Tech Hub in 2018 with a vision to make San Diego’s tech community a collaborative and diverse group...

Scottish she shanties well over the rage on tiktok. its not just lesser musical getting highlighted. last december, tiktok its first ever us music report and the data revealed more than 176 songs on tiktok got a billion views, making it just more than a good predictor of hits. it makes sense that tiktok now has global licensing deals with all three major music publishers after reaching an agreement with universal music on monday. what does that mean in practice? the uses of tiktok get to use mor...

More than 300 yesterday, usually monday figure is a little lower because of the lag in a weekend reporting. in terms of cases, 12,364. that is down, another fall in the number of cases from just over 14,000 yesterday. and in terms of vaccination, the good news on the vaccination roll—out continues. 12,000,640 people have been given the first dose of the vaccine, more than 12.5 million now. it was roughly 12.25 million yesterday. another 500,000 or so people have been vaccinated in the past 24�...

They are testing faithfully after they arrived, and then five or eight days later, — they arrived, and then five or eight days later, it can be determined whether— days later, it can be determined whether or not they were infected in the previous week or so, so it is very— the previous week or so, so it is very important that these testing strategies be used for the right purpose — strategies be used for the right --urose. ., , purpose. holiday firm tui say they have had nearly _ purpose...

Some of its investors have a lot at stake, they will be ok. they have access to liquidity. they have access to liquidity. the cross—section of the sector thatis the cross—section of the sector that is really hurting are those small and medium—sized businesses that dont have access to that level of additional funding. access to that level of additionalfunding. they have additional funding. they have used additionalfunding. they have used all the government schemes and they are really strugg...

Making huge sacrifices as part of the national effort, and these new enforcement powers will make sure their hard work and sacrifice isnt undermined by a small minority who dont want to follow the rules. under the governments policy, only those arriving from countries on the uks red list will need to quarantine in a hotel, but labour want the policy to apply to arrivals from every country. he hasnt announced comprehensive quarantine controls at the borders, i so why, then, when over halfl the co...

From the bbc, he finally got a response from facebook and was back up and running. facebook is a way of reaching millions of people who look at images every day and so, you dont want to be in a position where you cant use something which is so important and so widely read. you do understand that facebook is a huge operation with billions of users and they have to police content and sometimes mistakes are made? yeah, of course. i think its really important to make sure that the internet and what ...

This happened repeatedly to an english photographer. paul hawkins reports. meet photographer mike from winchester. he was trying to sell his photos on facebook, but the social media platform had other ideas when he tried to upload his pictures. suddenly i found, after a while, that it was sending just crazy inappropriate sort of bans for some of the adverts or some of the images i was trying to sell. what was their problem with the picture of the bullock? facebook didnt like it because they beli...

Some kind of way of filtering that stuff out if it does not meet policies, that is absolutely understandable. so mike is up and running for now and facebook are investigating the issue. as for how the england team is deemed an overtly sexual, or a cow for that matter, i will let your the algorithms do the maths. paul hawkins, bbc news. spirit not for people in north—west kandy, a polar vortex, courtiers bending in brought —— canada, temperatures as low as minus 48.9 celsius. cold enough to...

The government says it has spent more than £200 billion on job support schemes. our economics correspondent dharshini david reports. i had a little boy so i was due back to work in march. and then after five days of being back, covid hit and then i was furloughed for six months. landscape architect, nicolas a rare female face in manchesters construction industry. but after her furlough ended she left herjob to set up her own business, concerned that time—out and a lack of flexibility could af...