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Google Search now prioritizing in-depth research when ranking product reviews

Google today announced a ranking system update that changes what Search considers a good product review, and in turn what sites end users will see when looking up products. The company says people “appreciate product reviews that share in-depth research, rather than thin content that simply summarizes a bunch of products.” This “product reviews update” is meant to reward publishers that…
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Quick Charge Podcast: April 8, 2021

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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How to Make a Digital Polaroid Camera for Cheap Thermal Instant Photos

In this article, I’m going to tell you the story of my latest camera creation: a digital Polaroid camera that combines a receipt printer with a Raspberry Pi. To build it I took an old Polaroid Minute Maker camera, stripped out its guts, and replaced the innards with a digital camera, an E Ink display, a receipt printer, and an SNES controller to operate the camera. If you like this project…
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Facebook dataset combats AI bias by having people self-identify age and gender

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Facebook today open-sourced a dataset designed to surface age, gender, and skin tone biases in computer vision and audio machine learning models. The company claims that the corpus — Casual Conversations — is the first of its kind featuring paid people who explicitly provided their age and gender as opposed…
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