After many years of slow growth in the number of foreign workers migrating to Japan, Japan has increased its efforts to attract new foreign workers in the past couple of years. The number of foreigners working in Japan has reached a new high of more than 1.8 million in 2022. Since the Japanese population is aging quickly, the Japanese government is feeling the need to bring in talent from abroad.
Airports can be the most crowded and stressful places in
the world because of the slow-moving queues and bustling gates. Regardless of
the negative aspects associated with commercial air travel, on a general note,
it is an impressive system, with the biggest air transit hubs recording
passenger traffic numbers that rival the populations of large countries.
The Infographic used here has data from Airports Council International (ACI) to rank the top 10 busiest airports in the world, looking at total passengers enplaned and deplaned, with passengers in transit counted once.
Although most of Europe and North America condemns Russia because of its war in Ukraine, as far as politics goes, it is not a worldwide stance. Current analysis by the Economist Intelligence Unit has revealed that there is a slow growth in Russia’s support base in a few parts of the world. The number of countries leaning towards Russia has increased from 29 in 2022 to 35 in 2023. On the contrary, the number of countries either actively condemning Russia or West-leaning is still so far, the bigger group, but its figures have dropped from 131 to 122. The EIU says this fall is partly driven by the shift of a number of emerging economies into a more neutral position.
Air pollution is considered to be extreme environmental health hazard to humankind, becoming a reason for over six million deaths a year and an economic cost that is equal to over $8 trillion dollars. This analysis is according to the World Air Quality Report 2022 released on Tuesday by IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company. The analysis revealed that out of a surveyed 131 countries, regions and territories, only 13 resulted in meeting World Health Organization air guidelines of annual PM2.5 concentrations at or below 5 μg/m3 in 2022, many of which were in Oceania.
Community Notes on Twitter have become an important part of
the platform in terms of moderating the information that is shared by users. What
makes the process great is that users are directly involved in providing context
to the content shared, so as to limit the spread of misinformation.
Twitter has recently updated Notes with a new option that
requires contributors to first rate other Notes as helpful and unhelpful before
writing their own. “To unlock the ability to write, new contributors need to
earn a Rating Impact of at least 5,” explains Twitter.
When a contributor rates a note before it has reached a
status, it helps increase the ‘rating impact,’ whereas the impact decreases
upon the contributor’s rating after the note reaches a status.
Twitter advises contributors to look for and rate notes that need more ratings. “The best ways to do this are by browsing the ’Needs Your Help’ tab in Community Notes, and by looking out for alerts when a note needs your rating,” the social company adds.
The amount spent on global investment in research and
development (R&D) has tripled to $2.4 trillion since 2000.
R&D spend is also casting a broader global net. The United
States made up nearly 70% of global R&D spending in 1960 and by 2020 this
figure had fallen to 30%. R&D plays an important role in a country’s
economic growth and innovation and impacts nearly every corner of the society
either in a direct or indirect manner. From public health and job creation to
industrial competitiveness and national security, R&D has a role to play.
Other key elements that play an important role in driving
progress and innovation, along with R&D include scientific research, technological
adoption, and venture capital activity, to name a few.
The infographic ranks the world’s most innovative economies
using data from the UN’s WIPO Global Innovation Index.
We use cotton in our everyday lives. From clothes to coffee
strainers, cotton is used everywhere. One more cotton product that was widely
used after the spread of Covid-19 is a mask.
Cotton is the most used natural fiber and it has now become
the most important non-food agricultural product. At present, nearly half of
all fabrics need cotton fibers.
Using data from the United States Department of Agriculture,
this infographic lists top cotton producers from all around the world
The most hyped FIFA World Cup 2022, kicked off in Qatar this week. 32 teams from all over the world will face off so as to conclude that who will take the most expensive trophy in men’s soccer. The infographic shows how a handful of countries participating in the World Cup 2022 have valuable teams in terms of the combined market value of their players.
Meta and TikTok are under scrutiny for approving ads that
contain political misinformation, ahead of the US midterm elections. Global
Witness, a human rights organization, along with the Cybersecurity for
Democracy team at NYU has found the social media platforms to have gone against
their own ad policies.
The investigation report stated that the misinformation was mostly related to voting procedures, that could potentially convince people to refrain from casting their votes. The report further mentioned the number of ads that were found to be misleading; with Facebook approving two of the ads in English and five in Spanish, and TikTok approving nearly all of the ads. YouTube however was found to be complying with its ad policies, since the company had blocked all of the misinformative ads from running, while also banning the originating accounts involved in the submission of the ads.
Global Witness further revealed that it had carried out a similar experiment in Brazil, where it found 100% of the election disinformation ads being approved by Facebook. On top of that, after Meta was made aware of the situation, it still proceeded to review 20-50% of the ads. YouTube too, contrary to its performance in the US, was found to be approving 100% of the disinformation ads in Brazil.
Twitter has reported an unfortunate error in its security
systems that occurred back in January of 2022, as a result of which, an
important piece of users’ private information had leaked and was sold online by
hackers. This information was about whether a phone number or email address was
connected to an existing Twitter account.
Twitter explained, “As a result of the vulnerability, if someone submitted an email address or phone number to Twitter’s systems, Twitter’s systems would tell the person what Twitter account the submitted email addresses or phone number was associated with, if any.” The company further assured users that it had looked into and fixed the issue right after learning about it.
Twitter is releasing its new ‘Location Spotlight’ module for business accounts in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. The Location Spotlight module is an extension of Twitter’s Professional Profiles feature and contains important additional business information elements, such as location info, business hours, and additional contact methods.
Enabling the module will display all of your additional business information in a separate section below your main profile info, and above your tweets. As a business or brand owner, it will help enhance your presence in the app and give it a more professional look.
YouTube
launched health labels for videos last year to control the spread of
misinformation regarding health-related topics, and is now introducing them to
more regions. These include three regions in particular: Brazil, India
and Japan.
In addition to this, YouTube plans to add a 'health content
shelf' that would contain reliable information from recognized sources that
people can refer to.
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