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Incredible photos have emerged illustrating the enormity of a country’s ongoing recycling crisis. In Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka plastic waste has gone up to 586 tonnes a day in an increase of 424 tonnes since 2005, Dhaka Tribune reports. The country has recently sought to ramp up plastic recycling to tackle the issue. But new photos published by AFP, which show small mountains of plastic bottles and waste inside a recycling plant in Dhaka, highlight the enormity of the… Source link

BOSTON (AP) — Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday. “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement that coincided with the late author and illustrator’s birthday. “Ceasing sales of… Source link

Haunting pictures have captured the infamous Irish asylum that tortured homosexuals and treated the mentally ill with lobotomies for two centuries before finally closing its doors just seven years ago. In one image, three leather-clad doors stand open in the maximum-security wing of the asylum leading to padded cells which once held patients considered to be high-risk. In another, human bones remain in a bathtub – alluding to the horrors that once took place within the asylum’s walls. The… Source link

Google has updated its Google Photos app on Android with a new option that lets users tell the search giant about the contents of their pictures. By labeling these images, Google can improve its object recognition algorithms, which in turn make Photos more useful. It’s a virtuous cycle of AI development best deployed by tech giants like Google which have lots of data and lots of users. This isn’t an unusual practice at all. Machine learning systems don’t just learn by themselves,… Source link

PARDON ME, but I’m about to brag. I recently scored a monumental deal: a pristine, moss-green 1989 Comme des Garçons Homme Plus wool coat that I bought for only $160.38. Similar styles can run nearly four figures, so how did I nab mine so cheaply? I used From Japan, a shopping middleman—or proxy service—that lets an international deal-seeker like me shop from sites that don’t ship to his or her country. From Japan helped me “proxy” the coat off a secondhand site called… Source link

Google appears to have fixed an issue with Google Discover that was preventing large image previews being displayed for non-AMP pages. This is a follow-up to a previous story back in April in which we reported Google was aware of the issue and working on a fix. Search Engine Journal’s lead developer, Vahan Petrosyan, initially brought this issue to Google’s attention and now informs me it has been resolved. This is good news for all non-AMP sites that are eligible to appear in Google… Source link