Month: January 2018

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Robert Oppenheimer – The Sciences and Man’s Community

Robert Oppenheimer - The Sciences and Man
Robert Oppenheimer explains in his lecture entitled ‘The Sciences and Man’s Community’, how the “House of Science” helps us to understand the underlying profundities of the earth and our lives. He draws parallels between the construction of human society and the atom: each man is dependent on the next, and through the power of the collective, Man’s power grows with the shared knowledge of individuals.

20th of December, 1953
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Why Mastercard Is Adding a Charitable Aspect to Its Long-Running ‘Priceless’ Campaign

Mastercard has added a new wrinkle to its famed Priceless campaign, which has already spanned two decades. The company worked with its creative agency, McCann, for the last year to develop the addition to the campaign. Called “Start Something Priceless,” the new effort is meant to inspire people to do something they have always wanted…

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Facebook to Rank News Sources by Quality to Battle Misinformation

Facebook plans to start ranking news sources in its feed based on user evaluations of credibility, a major step in its effort to fight false and sensationalist information that will also push the company further into a role it has long sought to avoid—content referee.

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A Deeper Look at David Marcus’ 6 Trends for Facebook Messenger in 2018

Facebook Messenger has come a long way since vice president of messaging products David Marcus left his post as president of PayPal to join the social network in June 2014. Marcus shared six trends that he believes will emerge for the messaging application in 2018 in a note published on Facebook Tuesday. Those trends were:…

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WhatsApp Just Rolled Out an Android App for Small Businesses

Businesses on Facebook have the Facebook Pages Manager application, and businesses on Messenger have Analytics for Apps data for their Messenger bots. And now, businesses on WhatsApp have some tools of their own. The Facebook-owned messaging app announced the launch of WhatsApp Business, a free Android application for small business owners on the platform, which…

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Public backs legal status for immigrants brought to U.S. illegally as children, but not a bigger border wall

When the two policies are taken together, 54% of Americans both favor legal status for immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children and oppose expanding the border wall.

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Soccer Club Inter Milan Is Telling 110 Stories for its 110th Birthday, With Emojis for Every One

One of the neatest things about living outside the U.S. is discovering soccer culture, which is as strident and culturally charged as football is in America. On March 9, Italian club F.C. Inter Milan will turn 110 years old. To celebrate that historic benchmark, in November it launched “He110, this is Inter,” a massive project…

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Instagram Added Activity Status to Instagram Direct

Instagram’s latest update to its iOS and Android applications borrowed a feature from sister app Facebook Messenger. The app’s messaging feature, Instagram Direct, now includes activity status, which adds a line below user names sharing the last time those users have been online. Users can opt out of the feature, but should they do so,…

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NBC In Talks to Secure White House Interview on Super Bowl Sunday

NBC News is still hoping to secure an interview with President Trump on Super Bowl Sunday, a tradition that goes back more than a decade. “Without getting into specifics, I can tell you that there have been conversations between NBC News and the White House about a conversation format, the timing, the location, those sorts…

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