Twitter just wiped millions of low quality accounts from the service.
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We also don't consider ourselves to be purveyors of low-quality clickbait.
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Many of these books appear to be self-published and of low quality.
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All they get is small amounts of low-quality stuff, but they'll take it.
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Yet the rates paid by issuers of low-quality or junk bonds have been soaring.
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Since 2023, the United States has been creating an overabundance of low-quality service jobs.
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At the same time, the price cuts should root out thousands of low-quality rivals.
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In return, they get anemic transfers — plus government services that are often of low quality.
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Virtual reality has come a long ways from its early days of low-quality, nausea-inducing games.
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Mining of low-quality iron ore came to a halt in March over allegations of illegal mining.
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Empty spaces, known as voiding, could be evidence of low quality standards, or a rushed product release.
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These apps have been responsible for more than 130 million of "low quality" tweets, according to Twitter.
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But the authors of that review say the studies they turned up were generally of "low" quality.
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Kuperberg adds that D-Wave's qubits are also of low quality compared to those produced by other researchers.
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Public health obesity policies should prioritize fighting the overconsumption of low-quality food and improving the food environment.
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So I found a couple of low-quality images on Pinterest and realized it was probably blue before that.
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Public-health obesity policies should prioritize fighting the over-consumption of low-quality food and improving the food environment.
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The group's guidelines on this particular topic are graded 2C, which acknowledges that the evidence is of low quality.
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These securities are a form of low-quality corporate bonds with two compelling value propositions over standard junk bonds.
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The plastic will be of low quality, and the small pieces have a good chance of finding their way home.
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In early February, the company said it would get rid of "low-quality" and potentially harassing tweets from feeds and searches.
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His Facebook post garnered 181 comments, with other researchers describing similar signs of low-quality data in their own recent work.
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Alison Wolf, an economist at King's College London, worries that today's financing system means the number of low-quality courses will grow.
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It's important to be clear that partisan news is not the same as fake news, nor is it inherently of low quality.
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In their paper, they noted that their system was a free upgrade for millions of low-quality surveillance cameras already in use.
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Along with spotting completely false stories, the data may also prove useful in helping the platform identify common characteristics of low-quality websites.
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After all, many of the Alexa skills offered today are of low quality, or more experimental attempts from developers testing out the platform.
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In June last year, Twitter bought UK AI startup Magic Pony, which uses similar techniques to improve the resolution of low-quality videos.
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Goods marked as genuine leather will be several layers of low-quality leather bonded together with glue and then painted to look uniform.
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There were a lot of low-quality novels written by people who really have no idea what was actually likely to be plausible.
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"If customers start to view the space as full of low-quality, low-cost products, that reflects poorly on everybody," Doerksen told Bloomberg.
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Although Wikipedia can be a good source of information, some of the articles cited by World-Check are incomplete or of low quality.
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When the company revised its policies earlier this year, the move was meant to reduce the number of low-quality apps and spam.
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One wrote, "While it looks pretty and convincing in photos, the dress has no substance and is of low quality (manufacturer issues maybe?)."
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On Instagram, you have to be careful not to clog your friends' feeds with a barrage of low-quality pictures that might annoy them.
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However, there remains a fair amount of low-quality, unoriginal, overly captioned, meme-style videos promoted on its "Popular" page, at least for me.
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Shanghai rebar futures climbed 46 percent this year, driven by the closure of low-quality Chinese steelmaking plants and production curbs to fight pollution.
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Typically, when you search for a job like that, chances are you'll be bombarded with a bunch of low-quality or even potentially malicious sites.
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A recent BuzzFeed News story detailed how this form of low-quality traffic is often "laundered" through other domains before ending up on mainstream sites.
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And Caracas remains highly dependent on the American market, since few refineries outside the United States can process large quantities of low-quality Venezuela crude.
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Although it pointed to some systematic reviews that reported positive cognitive effects of brain training, the W.H.O. judged the studies to be of low quality.
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"Typically, Google has done a good job of keeping us off of low-quality sites," said John Short, vice president for demand generation at Workable.
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"This shift in practice norms was fueled by acceptance of low quality evidence that opioids are a relatively benign remedy for managing chronic pain," she wrote.
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But anxiety over digital news has grown in recent years, with publishers worried by diminishing revenue and experts warning about the proliferation of low-quality sources.
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That could help Facebook develop a few flagship Shows, as nothing has quite broken out of the crowd of low quality, often unscripted content in Watch.
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"In the past year we saw a lot of low-quality deals, and I think we're going to see fewer and fewer of those," he said.
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But the authors note that the studies are almost all of low quality, small in size, and often funded by companies with significant conflicts of interest.
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Down south, Fahy got caught in what's now known as the "Florida shuffle" — a quagmire of low-quality, weakly regulated addiction treatment centers and sober homes.
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And here&aposs a tip for navigating the free game market: many great games are free, but there&aposs also a lot of low quality titles.
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Facebook said the change would reduce the influence of a "tiny group" of people it has identified who share vast amounts of low-quality public posts daily.
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Chinese companies told him the measure was designed to cut an excessive number of low-quality, low-priced tours for Chinese tourists visiting Korea, the official said.
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To re-emphasize the point made in this story, this analysis is not based on the idea that partisan news is bad or inherently of low quality.
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"You're given a limited supply of menstrual products per month, often of low quality due to cost saving, and when you run out, you're out," Parrish said.
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Why launch a tool like this before performing the most basic cursory scan for the kind of low-quality sources that already have your company in hot water?
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The Obama administration has sought a series of stiff fines against banks that allegedly sold bundles of low-quality mortgages without fully informing customers of the associated risk.
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A series of recent police raids in Mexican resort towns have turned up stockpiles of low-quality alcohol produced under "bad manufacturing practices," the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
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Do some cost-benefit analysis here: Cheap parts are often of low quality—many manufacturers would argue that they are counterfeit, I'd argue that many are just aftermarket.
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"This is in line with measures taken by the ministry in the past to limit the import of low-quality goods," the Trade Ministry said in a statement.
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Ukraine's Ukrtransnafta said parties in the Budapest talks agreed to remove about 2000,000 tonnes of low-quality oil from Druzhba in Ukraine and Belarus and store it in reservoirs.
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The 2008 crisis occurred because Lehman Brothers, AIG, and other financial institutions had loaded up with "toxic assets" — complex financial instruments assembled using a lot of low-quality mortgages.
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It turns out even one of the most expensive and meticulously produced shows in history can fall prey to the scourge of low quality streaming and bad TV settings.
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Citigroup — Keefe Bruyette & Woods downgraded Citi to "market perform" from "outperform," saying that its most recent quarterly beat was of "low quality" and that the stock is fairly valued.
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Ukraine's Ukrtransnafta said parties in the Budapest talks agreed to remove about 2100,2000 tonnes of low-quality oil from Druzhba in Ukraine and Belarus and store it in reservoirs.
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The updated guidelines provide clearer examples of low-quality results, including "misleading information, unexpected offensive results, hoaxes and unsupported conspiracy theories," engineering VP Ben Gomes wrote in the blog post.
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Neste has stepped up usage of low-quality feedstock in its biofuels: waste and residue inputs, such as animal fats, make up more than 80 percent of its raw materials.
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Of course, that'll mean you'll see lots of low-quality streams on YouTube once Stadia goes live, but there'll surely be some new talent that'll be discovered this way, too.
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Actually, Facebook Watch is dominated by the kind of low-quality viral video memes the social network announced it would kick out of its News Feed for wasting people's time.
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In only a few years, IPR has made significant strides in improving patent quality, making it harder for patent trolls to take advantage of low quality patents to stymie entrepreneurs.
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"Swiping is definitely good for matching — plenty of users will rack up dozens or hundreds of matches — but a lot of low quality interaction can follow on from that," he says.
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The news comes a week after Facebook announced it would make significant changes to the News Feed, in part to reduce the amount of low-quality video served to its users.
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According to data from the consultancy, the use of low-quality or dirty coal, known as sanmei, will fall to 469 million tons this year from 774 million tons in 2012.
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A lower cost can be counter-productive in the consumer market — shoppers think the product is not worth as much as others, that the price is a reflection of low quality.
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"The local industry is facing pricing issues because of low-quality solar energy appliances being imported in the country that are very cheap as compared to the local market," he said.
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If the new Batsuit looks and feels kind of low quality, fear not, as it apparently fits with the storyline of a young Bruce Wayne, in his first years as Batman.
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" The report cited field offices' complaints that the program had wasted time with a high volume of low-quality leads, resulting in agents scrutinizing people "without any connection to illicit activity.
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The social media company said it will use a new approach called Click-Gap to reduce the amount of low-quality content, such as fake news, that users see on News Feed.
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Depending on the item, proper certification is required — if this is not noted in the description or item details, it is another major warning sign that the item is of low quality.
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There's lots of low-quality care and experiences in health care, so I think there's a low bar at some level in terms of sometimes what we're trying to accomplish for people.
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A proliferation of low-quality patents leads to higher costs for innovation, industries, and particularly entrepreneurs whom now have to calculate risk of suit as they build businesses here in America forward.
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Turkey has a history of low-quality construction, a factor that was blamed for the high death toll in the 1999 earthquake that struck near Izmit, about 55 miles southeast of Istanbul.
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One of the methods the researchers used in the paper "is the wrong tool for the job and virtually guaranteed that they would falsely conclude that guidelines are of low quality," Schillinger said.
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Twitter also says it uses algorithmic methods to determine which hashtags show up in its trending topics section, which guard against attempts to spoof the system with high volumes of low-quality traffic.
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Chinese producers of low-quality copycat drugs have been slow to meet the CDA's tougher new manufacturing standards and the requirement to prove that their pills are biologically equivalent to the original drugs.
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But the authors of that review say the studies they turned up were generally of "low" quality—meaning the design or execution of the studies was poor, and so the results are shaky.
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China's $60 billion farm machinery industry has been burdened by overcapacity and low profit-margins after a years-long subsidy scheme to promote mechanization in farming led to mass production of low-quality tractors.
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The theory that menstrual cycles sync up for women who are nearby for extended periods has been around for quite some time, but the few studies that support the theory are of low quality.
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Shanya Lewis, a graduate student in industrial design at Parsons School of Design, says she believes recycled textiles carry a stigma of low quality and lack of cleanliness, which she is seeking to overcome.
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Rice output fell by 1.2% over the previous year due to a reduction in planting of low-quality and low-efficiency early rice, with many areas moving to planting just one crop per year.
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Look for signs of low quality, such as words in all caps, headlines with glaring grammatical errors, bold claims with no sources, and sensationalist images (women in bikinis are popular clickbait on fake news sites).
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Stuffing their articles full of low-quality video isn't just going to fail to produce a sustainable business model — this spammy video business model is likely to tarnish these newspaper brands for years to come.
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However, The Outline isn't currently planning to charge for its content, and it's also not going to churn out masses of low-quality stories that will drive up pageviews and, therefore, views for display ads.
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Fahy ultimately found addiction treatments that the health plan would cover in Florida, but there he got caught in the "Florida shuffle," a quagmire of low-quality, weakly regulated addiction treatment centers and sober homes.
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"Should we identify patterns or sources of low quality traffic (such as a partner), we not only cease any commercial relationship with them but also block any traffic from those sources," he said in an email.
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She's often quoted by the media (including Motherboard), and last week she appeared on Good Morning America to talk about the dangers of counterfeit Lightning charging cables, which can damage iPhones if they're of low quality.
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" —Alon Rajic, CEO of Finofin, which operates Money Transfer Comparison, a leading authority on international transfers "You can live within your means by choosing fewer, high-quality items instead of accumulating lots of low-quality things.
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In a bid to curb the tide of low-quality video games hitting Steam in recent years, Valve will ask users of its digital distribution platform to sift through recent releases to find and highlight hidden gems.
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It was seen as a way to combat a perceived increase in the number of low-quality patents in the market that should have never been approved in the first place, which are often exploited by trolls.
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He reiterated his calls last week at a conference held by the American Association of Advertising Agencies, a trade group known as the 4A's, criticizing the thousands of low-quality ads that bombard people every day online.
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European nations that had exported most of their recyclables to China have faced growing piles of low-quality plastic scrap, causing "a congestion of the whole system," says Chaim Waibel, adviser for the industry association Plastics Recyclers Europe.
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In addition, The streaming video giant said it is releasing a tool for publishers to assess the quality of their ads; Google Chrome will eventually block ads on websites that display a large number of low-quality ads.
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Joe Marchese, president of advertising products for the Fox Networks Group, said the system, set up to reward clicks and impressions, had fueled the growth of low-quality sites well beyond those focused on made-up political news.
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By focusing only on egregious examples of false news, Facebook allows its biggest purveyors of disingenuous conspiracies and polarizing content to operate with impunity while growing their audiences and expanding the footprint of low-quality information on the platform.
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This traffic does involve a human user, but it's acknowledged to be of low quality because the content loaded in the pop-up window was not requested by the user, and, in many cases, they may never see it.
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The draft agreement sets minimum prices for tomatoes and "closes loopholes from past suspension agreements that permitted sales below" those prices and a brand-new inspection mechanism to prevent the importation of low-quality Mexican tomatoes, the department said.
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As with that transition, the most pressing question for users will be whether the company can avoid opening the app to a flood of low-quality ads as a host of new advertisers get their hands on automated tools.
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MANILA (Reuters) - China banned induction furnaces last year in a crackdown on polluting producers of low-quality steel, but these machines have made their way to parts of Southeast Asia, hitting domestic steelmakers and fueling safety and environmental concerns.
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China this week unleashed its boldest reform plan so far for its bloated steel sector, saying it will eliminate all production of low-quality steel products by the end of June, a move analysts say could dent exports further.
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Fortunately, there are a few common-sense additions that can ensure the JOBS Act lives up to its aspirations while also protecting students and taxpayers from a potential flood of low-quality training programs leading to dead-end jobs.
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Beijing has also sought to promote soybeans along with other higher value cash crops such as rapeseed, peanuts and vegetables, while reducing planting of staple grains like corn, wheat and rice due to surplus production of low quality crops.
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Richard Bowen, a former employee in Citigroup's mortgage unit, tells Axios he provided 1,000 pages of documents to the SEC and spoke to prosecutors about certifications of low-quality mortgages that were sold to investors, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae.
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The government has also warned that it will set a cap on the number of new games; this will mostly crimp developers of low-quality copycats, as well as poker and mah-jong platforms, reckons Niko Partners, a technology consultancy.
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We've heard reports in the past of low quality from the brand, but that was years ago and Audio Technica seems to have gotten their act together — or they wouldn't have been a CES 2016 Editor's Choice Winner from Review.com.
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The clip is of low quality and edited to dramatize the original footage; it's presented out of context, without sound, at slow speed with a close-crop zoom, and contains additional frames that appear to emphasize Acosta's contact with the intern.
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On some level, parents see Blippi — a harmless, educational show — as a welcome reprieve from the flood of low-quality animated kids videos on YouTube, or the disturbing or exploitative videos targeted at kids that prompted a crackdown by the platform last year.
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Cutting down on information overload could help people distinguish real from fake news on social media, and one way to do that could be for companies like Facebook and Twitter to remove the bots that churn out lots of low-quality posts.
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Based on user interests and choices, we limit the visibility of low-quality content using tools such as Quality Filter and Safe Search — both of which are on by default for all of Twitter's users and active for more than 97% of users.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is ramping up controls on imports of low-quality coal due to concerns about smog and overcapacity in the world's top coal consumer, a government official said on Wednesday, as traders report some cargoes have been delayed by customs checks.
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The case highlights a twofold problem that has contributed to more than a decade of abusive patent litigation: a proliferation of low quality patents and an antiquated law that requires defendants to pay 2023 percent of the profits from their infringing product.
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Most patent suits are brought by non-practicing entities (NPEs) or patent trolls --whose sole purpose is to buy up dozens, hundreds, or thousands of low quality patents on the cheap in hopes of leveraging one or two into a hugely profitable settlement.
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There are challenges if you increase the number of sources, you're going to get a lot of duplicate content, a lot of low quality content… We shouldn't do that unless we are confident we can provide measures for our users to filter that content.
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Brinsden said lithium carbonate prices had fallen because of a step change in China's subsidies to favor new technology that allowed battery-powered vehicles to travel further on a single charge, as well a burst of low-quality supply from Australian salt-lake lithium producers.
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According to new guidelines issued last year, CTL plants in China are permitted to use a maximum of 3.7 tonnes of coal for each tonne of oil produced, and they should prioritize the use of low-quality coals in order to reduce their use elsewhere.
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Changes to Facebook's news feed as part of an initiative to crack down on the share of low-quality viral videos reduced the amount of time users spend on the network by 50 million hours a day in the fourth quarter, the company reports.
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French officials said current fees of around 170 euros ($13) a year for a bachelor's degree in France or 243 euros for a masters' - the same as those paid by French students - was interpreted by students in countries like China as a sign of low quality.
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A recent analysis of military medical research put out between 26 and 239 found that "research on the US military has until recently focused almost exclusively on the health of male service members," and that gynecological care had the highest percentage of low-quality articles and information available to service members.
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On Twitter and 8chan, an online message board that allows unconstrained speech including racist and extremist posts, the shooter teased his imminent attack with a call to spread his message through memes and "shitposting," slang for pushing out a huge volume of low-quality, ironic content to illicit a reaction.
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The High Tech Inventors Alliance published an open letter on its website praising the introduction of the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board and other changes to the patent system, as well as Supreme Court rulings, that have reined in what the group described as frivolous litigation on behalf of low-quality patents.
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While no one was looking, the AIA's programs have been steadily cleaning up America's patent system, getting rid of low quality patents and fueling innovation and growth across the U.S. While not the flashiest piece of legislation, the AIA is creating a better environment for American inventors — one less threatened by patent trolls.
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"The concerning findings of this study - that clinical trials demonstrating safety and efficacy of these fixed dose combinations were neither publicly available or of low quality, suggest that Indian patients taking these combinations should discuss with their clinicians whether it is prudent to switch to a different agent," Fendrick said by email.
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At this point, it is hardly a surprise to learn that even top scientific journals publish a lot of low-quality work — not just solid experiments that happen, by bad luck, to have yielded conclusions that don't stand up to replication, but poorly designed studies that had no real chance of succeeding before they were ever conducted.
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They also argue that this would lead to a much better situation for quality online publishers because it would make it harder for their high-value audiences to be arbitraged and commodified by privacy-hostile tracking technologies which — as it stands — trail internet users everywhere they go — albeit they freely concede that purveyors of low-quality clickbait might fare less well.
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The comedian sadly passed away from an accidental drug overdose in 2005 at the age of 37, leaving behind a relatively slim body of work—his trio of comedy albums are stone-cold classics and his comedy specials are, too, but if you want anything more than that, you'll have to wade through a sea of low-quality clips on YouTube to get your Hedberg fix.
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