When ratings don't define success, more TV series are staying on the air longer - The Washington Post
"Ratings, tabulated by Nielsen to include DVR views on the same day, can be evaluated in various ways. But shows whose episodes regularly draw under 5 million viewers are often seen as struggling, especially if they're not disproportionately strong in the 18-to-49 demographic that advertisers care about."
Facebook says 50M user accounts affected by security breach
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says it recently discovered a security breach affecting nearly 50 million user accounts.
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Life Is Too Short to RTFM: How Users Relate to Documentation and Excess Features in Consumer Products | Interacting with Computers | Oxford Academic
We found that manuals are not read by the majority of people, and most do not use all the features of the products that they own and use regularly.
What's yogurt? Industry wants greater liberty to use term | Chicago Sun-Times
The U.S. government has rules about what can be called "yogurt," and the dairy industry says it's not clear what the answers are. Now it's hopeful it will finally get to use the term with greater liberty, with the Trump administration in the process of updating the yogurt definition.
"OK is something Scrabble players have been waiting for, for a long time," said lexicographer Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster. "Basically two- and three-letter words are the lifeblood of the game."
"By the end of its operation in 1956, ENIAC contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, 7200 crystal diodes, 1500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and approximately 5,000,000 hand-soldered joints. It weighed more than 30 short tons (27 t), was roughly 2.4 m × 0.9 m × 30 m (8 ft × 3 ft × 98 ft) in size, occupied 167 m2 (1,800 sq ft) and consumed 150 kW of electricity. This power requirement led to the rumor that whenever the computer was switched on, lights in Philadelphia dimmed."A lot bigger—and a lot less powerful—than the one you carry around in your jeans (unless you're into wearing those baggy jeans, in which case you're on your own).
The Buffalo Bills, who beat the Minnesota Vikings decisively in football yesterday, were historic underdogs in Vegas. Until, of course, they weren't.
Vegas Doesn't Usually Set Huge Underdogs In Week 3. For The Bills, They'll Make An Exception. | FiveThirtyEight
