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20 books recommended by tech and science leaders
Here are just some of the book recommendations we got from leaders in 2022.
You probably don’t have the RAM for Returnal’s recommended PC spec
When I heard timebending roguelike shooter Returnal was actually, really, definitely coming to PC during The Game Awards last week, I wasn’t quite expecting the recommended system requirements to suggest I set aside 32GB RAM at its disposal. That’s what devs Housemarque and publisher PlayStation have listed for Returnal’s recommended system requirements though. Shush, don’t tell anyone, but I don’t have that much RAM in my machine. Doing a straw poll of RPS staff, most of us don’t. Except James, who’s looking very pleased with himself right now.
Recommended Reading: The ‘Diablo IV’ crunch
‘Diablo IV’ developers work long hours, bracing for impending release
Shannon Liao, The Washington Post
Crunch has become a common issue at game development studios, especially as high-profile titles near launch. The release date for Diablo IV isn’t until June, but people working on the Activision Blizzard game are already saying it will be difficult to meet the deadline even with employees working 12-hour days, late into evening and on the weekend.
Tony Fadell is trying to build the iPod of crypto
Steven Levy, Wired
The Nest co-founder once worked on a team at Apple that created the iPod. Now he’s making a hardware wallet for crypto to give the digital currency its own iPod moment with the Paris-based company Ledger. Levy chronicles the period leading up to launch of the Ledger Stax this week.
The 50 best albums of 2022
Pitchfork
An activity I look forward to every year is listening through Pitchfork’s year-end lists. There are several, but I always start with albums — the long game. It’s a fun annual chore, discovering new acts I’ve never heard of and listening back to some I’m already familiar with.
Is your post blocked from being recommended? Insta will let you know.
Have your posts on Instagram gotten fewer engagements than you’re used to? Are you convinced you’re experiencing an ever-feared shadow ban? Instagram will now let you know if your posts aren’t being recommended to other users, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Wednesday (Dec. 7).
Creators and businesses are able to see if their posts are being blocked from appearing in recommendations on the app, like at the end of Feed or Explore or in other places Instagram surfaces photos and videos from people you don’t follow.
“Today we’re announcing new transparency tools so you can see whether or not your photos and videos are recommended in places like explore,” Mosseri said in a video posted to Twitter. “Now, we know reach can be volatile. You can see how many people you reach go up and down over time, and one of the reasons that happens is sometimes your account can end up in a state where it’s not eligible for your photos and videos in what we call recommendations.”
To find out if your account’s posts are blocked from being recommended, click your settings menu and navigate to account settings under “account.” There, you can see if any of your posts are banned from being recommended.
There are a variety of reasons your posts might be blocked — perhaps you’re not following the community guidelines, or your posts have been flagged too many times. This will likely be seen as a transparent tool for creators but, truthfully, the transparency I’m still begging to see from Instagram is the intimate details of who (if anyone) has me blocked. I suspect I will never know.
Recommended: Adam Geoffrey Cole – The Tracks of the Afterlander
Recommended Reading: The environmental cost of China’s EV boom
The dirty road to clean energy: How China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment
Antonia Timmerman, Rest of World
The rise of electric vehicles in China is causing devastating environmental impacts in nearby Indonesia, including rising ocean temperatures as a byproduct of coal plants. Upper respiratory infections are also one of the main health issues for people who live near nickel-processing factories and the main water sources for some areas are increasingly polluted and prone to flooding.
The future of parking is in New York — and it costs at least $300,000 per space
Ray Parisi, CNBC
Some of the priciest condos in NYC are housed in buildings with futuristic parking systems. Robotic technology is deployed to park and retrieve vehicles. The catch? The apartments cost millions and reserving a self-parking spot will cost you at least $300,000 more.
We’re in denial about the true cost of a Twitter implosion
Eve Fairbanks, Wired
“The amount of reputational and social wealth that stands to be lost if Twitter collapses is astounding,” Fairbanks explains. “Twitter currently functions as perhaps the world’s biggest status bank, and the investments stored in it are terrifyingly unsecured.”
Twitter is now pushing recommended tweets to everyone
Twitter is now pushing more tweets from accounts users don’t already follow into their timelines. The company revealed that it’s now surfacing recommendations to all its users, even people who had successfully avoided them in the past.
“We want to ensure everyone on Twitter sees the best content on the platform, so we’re expanding recommendations to all users, including those who may not have seen them in the past,” the company wrote in a tweet.
It’s not clear if this means recommendations will begin to appear in the “latest” timeline, which sorts tweets chronologically and has historically not included recommendations, or if Twitter is simply making recommendations more prominent in other parts of the app. In its tweet, the company pointed to a blog post from September, which states that “recommendations can appear in your Home timeline, certain places within the Explore tab, and elsewhere on Twitter.”
We want to ensure everyone on Twitter sees the best content on the platform, so we’re expanding recommendations to all users, including those who may not have seen them in the past.
You can learn more about them, and how to best control your experience: https://t.co/ekYWf57JSc
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November 30, 2022
Anecdotally, it seems some users are already reportingnoticeablechanges to their timelines, with the appearance of new topic suggestions and many tweets from seemingly random accounts.
Though the change may feel jarring, it’s not the first time the company has experimented with adding more suggested content. Twitter has been pushing recommendations into various parts of its service for years, though it has sometimes tweaked how often these suggestions appear. In the past, Twitter has also been careful to note that it bars certain types of content from recommendations in order to avoid amplifying potentially harmful or low-quality content, though it’s not entirely clear if that’s still the case. The company no longer has a communications team.
Interestingly, Twitter’s current CEO, Elon Musk, hasn’t always spoken favorably about the platform’s recommendation algorithms. Back in May, he tweeted that using the app’s “latest” timeline was crucial to “fix” Twitter’s feed. “You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize,” he said at the time. Musk, who has also spoken about his desire to open source Twitter’s algorithms, hasn’t yet weighed in on the new expansion of recommendations, or how the feature works.
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