The algorithm has disturbing and dangerous biases: A former YouTube engineer criticizes how the recommended videos are made

YouTube has serious problems with the content on its platform, while they apologize and take action against the wave of peturbation videos aimed at children, is also fresh the controversy of Logan Paul, the famous youtuber who showed a video of a suicide while making fun, a video that was promoted in YouTube trends and watched six million times.

It is clear that something needs to change within YouTube. According to a former company engineer who worked with the recommendation system, YouTube’s algorithm is not optimizing what is truthful, balanced or healthy for democracy, and is full of disturbing biases.

Exercise improve your intestinal health and your microbial diversity

Imbalances in the intestinal microbiota contribute to inflammatory diseases of the large intestine. Interestingly, exercise can improve intestinal health, but in general, little is known about the underlying mechanisms involved.

A recent review published in this year 2017 has represented a conceptual model that illustrates the role of exercise in the diversification of the intestinal microbiota to improve intestinal and systemic health.

LibreOffice 6.0 is now available, the first major update of 2018 and dramatically improved

We can now download LibreOffice 6.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS (and the cloud). This is the first major update this year, and one that the Document Foundation itself has called “dramatically better”.

The free office suite is also celebrating its seventh anniversary, and with version 6.0 they claim to have a line of more powerful, simple, and secure programs with better interoperability with Microsoft Office documents.

So you can lose weight (and keep it after): How the theory of the set point or fixed point works

Often the problems to lose weight are not limited to the difficulty of losing weight, but to keep us in our new weight once we have reached it.

The best advice to achieve this is to convert the fact of dieting into a complete change of habits to eat healthier and get used to exercise so that these are our new habits and do not abandon them once we have lost those kilos that we considered that we had left over.

Tribler, the anonymous BitTorrent “impossible to close” adds its own blockchain to reward those who share the most

An anonymous, decentralized BitTorrent client, with the protection of using encryption like Tor’s , and now also with its own blockchain to know how much users share and reward them according to that.

This is Tribler , the open source program to share files via P2P that has been in development for more than a decade, and which we have talked about before to create an anonymous and “impossible to close” BitTorrent.