Deadly Crowd Accidents, WWDC 2023, Twitter, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, June 6, 2023
By ResearchBuzz
NEW RESOURCES
University of New South Wales: Travelling overseas? This map shows the hot spot areas for deadly crowd accidents. “Researchers create database of more than 280 crowd accidents over the past 120 years and propose new ‘Swiss Cheese’ model aimed at reducing deaths and injuries down to zero in future.”
EVENTS
Ars Technica: Liveblog: All the news from Apple’s WWDC 2023 keynote. “At 10 am Pacific Time (1 pm EDT) this Monday, June 5, Apple will host the keynote presentation at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The streaming/in-person hybrid event will include new announcements about iOS, macOS, and much more—probably including Apple’s new mixed reality headset. We’ll be liveblogging all the updates as they happen right here.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
New York Times: Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue. “…Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier, according to an internal presentation obtained by The New York Times. The company has regularly fallen short of its U.S. weekly sales projections, sometimes by as much as 30 percent, the document said. That performance is unlikely to improve anytime soon, according to the documents and seven current and former Twitter employees.”
TechCrunch: BeReal is adding a messaging feature called RealChat. “BeReal is working on a chat feature, which will begin with a test among users in Ireland. At launch, users will be able to message one on one with friends, send them a private BeReal (no time limit, just a front-back photo) and react with RealMoji (BeReal’s custom emojis).”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Smithsonian Magazine: National Genealogical Society Apologizes for ‘Racist and Discriminatory’ Past Actions. “The National Genealogical Society (NGS), one of the country’s most prominent organizations for documenting family ancestry, has issued a formal apology and a report on ‘racist and discriminatory actions and decisions the society made’ over the past century.”
AFP: Here Comes the AI: Fans rejoice in ‘new’ Beatles music . “When the Beatles broke up more than 50 years ago, devastated fans were left yearning for more. Now, artificial intelligence is offering just that. From ‘re-uniting’ the Fab Four on songs from their solo careers, to re-imagining surviving superstar Paul McCartney’s later works with his voice restored to its youthful peak, the new creations show off how far this technology has come—and raise a host of ethical and legal questions.”
CNN: Teachers are on the front lines of a battle to change how teens use social media. “[Jennifer] Rosenzweig is one of a growing number of educators who find themselves on the front lines of a fight to change how students use social media, both in schools and at home, after rising concerns about the impact these services can have on the mental health of teens. And recently, there has been a push for more schools to effectively follow their example and develop programs to help educate students on the dangers of social media.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
The Star (Kenya): Canada, Mutua warn Kenyans over fake job websites. “The Canadian government has warned Kenyans about fake job websites. In a statement, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said the information was false and the programs that had been referenced do not exist. The IRCC said for accurate information on how to move to Canada, Kenyans should visit the country’s immigration website.”
BBC: GaaSyy: Japan YouTuber arrested over celebrity threats. “Police in Japan have arrested a YouTuber and former MP over threats he allegedly made to celebrities. Yoshikazu Higashitani, known on YouTube as GaaSyy, is famous for his celebrity gossip videos. Local media said he returned to Japan from the UAE, two months after Tokyo police issued his arrest warrant.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Conversation: Social media snaps map the sweep of Japan’s cherry blossom season in unprecedented detail . “The hanami festival has been documented for centuries, and research shows climate change is making early blossoming more likely. The advent of mobile phones – and social network sites that allow people to upload photos tagged with time and location data – presents a new opportunity to study how Japan’s flowering events are affected by seasonal climate.”
WIRED: ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the AI Revolution. “AI chatbots are less fluent in languages other than English, threatening to amplify existing bias in global commerce and innovation.”
Washington Post: ChatGPT ‘hallucinates.’ Some researchers worry it isn’t fixable.. “Figuring out how to prevent or fix what the field is calling ‘hallucinations’ has become an obsession among many tech workers, researchers and AI skeptics alike. The issue is mentioned in dozens of academic papers posted to the online database Arxiv and Big Tech CEOs like Google’s Sundar Pichai have addressed it repeatedly. As the tech gets pushed out to millions of people and integrated into critical fields including medicine and law, understanding hallucinations and finding ways to mitigate them has become even more crucial.” Good morning, Internet…
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June 6, 2023 at 05:29PM
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