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Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds

Smashing Magazine

Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% Michelle Barker.

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Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Smashing Magazine

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00. But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. The market was maturing.

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Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

Smashing Magazine

Stuff like this is why Gabriel Gianordoli was voted World’s Best Designer at the 2020 Society for News Design awards. This article on exponential spreading from March 2020 (remember that?) The Marshall Project Mixes Media. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2020-01-06T10:30:13+00:00. 2020-01-06T12:35:48+00:00. New metrics landing in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. Vitaly Friedman. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Large view.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Using models like GPT-3, multiple entities could inundate social media platforms with misinformation at a scale where the majority of the information online would become useless.

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Complete Guide for Customized Education App Development

Tech News Gather

Early in 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic has taken a serious toll. When developing an educational app, it is essential that students have the option to sign up using their social media accounts. This is a convenient option for students who do not have access to the internet or encounter network problems. Social Media.