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People who use social media to obtain information are less willing to receive a coronavirus vaccine than others, according to a study.
The researchers surveyed 1476 adults and five focus groups in the UK in December 2020, as the vaccine roll-out got under way.
They found that people who reported using YouTube in the past month were less willing to be vaccinated, with a 45 per cent probability of vaccine willingness.
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Recommendations based on a person’s viewing history can create an echo chamber effect on YouTube, say the researchers.
“Misinformation proliferates on some social media platforms because users receive content suggestions aligned with their fears and watch histories, driving them into deeper rabbit holes,” says study author Melinda Mills at the University of Oxford.
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The Times’ university rankings for 2021, after the rankings were filtered by the course title computer science.
Oxford and Cambridge
It’s rare to find a university listing that doesn’t have Oxford or Cambridge university ranked first and when it comes to computer science and IT courses, there’s no change at the top.
Cambridge university offers just one undergraduate computer science course, whilst Oxford allows applicants to take a three-year undergraduate course or a four-year Masters course, both of which can be taken in combination with mathematics or philosophy. Acceptance onto the Masters course is subject to achieving a 2:1 at the end of the third year.
June 3, 2021
The US isn’t keeping up with the proliferation of new spacecraft in low-earth orbit, and the potential consequences are serious.
Megaconstellations, like those developed by SpaceX and OneWeb, will add tens of thousands of new satellites to the environment around the planet. University of Southampton professor Hugh Lewis used data from the Center for Space Standards & Innovation to visualize how often satellites are expected to pass by each other, based on their present positions.
Satellite operators become concerned when their satellites are expected to pass within a kilometer of another spacecraft, given the uncertainty involved in predicting their movement. The data show a significant escalation in close conjunctions involving satellites in the new megaconstellations.