NPR's Michel Martin asks Washington Post reporter Lisa Bonos whether this will make dating safer.

Man holds his mobile smart phone. Look up next time you're outside and guess where the airplane above you is headed. Ask Siri this phrase, "What flights are overhead?" You'll see the carrier, flight number, and altitude in seconds. I love sharing simple digital life tips that make things easier.

A recommendation system generates a compiled list of items in which a user might be interested, in the reciprocity of their current selection of item(s). It expands users' suggestions without any disturbance or monotony, and it does not recommend items that the user already knows. For instance, the Netflix recommendation system offers recommendations by matching and searching similar users' habits and suggesting movies that share characteristics with films that users have rated highly. In this tutorial, we will dive into building a recommendation system for Netflix. This tutorial's code is available on Github and its full implementation as well on Google Colab.

Since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, more than 2.5 million people have fled the country, making it Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II. In trying to find shelter in neighboring countries like Romania, some Ukrainian refugees have turned to an unexpected place for help: Tinder. The New York Times recounts the tale of one such individual, Anastasia Tischchenko. She and her friend Natalia Masechko posted their plight to the dating app when they fled their home of Ivano-Frankivsk, a city of approximately 230,000 located in western Ukraine, south of Lviv. "I'm thinking there are a lot of honest people in the world, and some of them are on Tinder," Tischchenko told The Times.

Recommender system is a promising approach to boost sales to the next level by suggesting the right products to the right customers. This course starts by showing you the main solutions of recommender systems in the industry and the hypotheses behind the main solutions. You'll then learn how to build collaborative filtering models with fastai, and exercise the trained model on test datasets. As you advance, you'll visualize latent features, interpret weights and biases, and check what similar users/Items are from the model's perspective. Furthermore, you'll build a hybrid recommender system with popularity and association rule, and evaluate the recommendations with selected criteria.

As of this week, Tinder users will be able to run criminal background checks on their potential dates. The feature – launched in partnership with Garbo, a background check provider that aims to make public safety information more accessible – is intended to make Tinder users feel safer. But experts who specialize in sexual violence and surveillance have said the move is misguided, and risks amplifying the biases inherent in the criminal justice system. Background checks are blunt tools that gloss over some fundamental nuances, including that most people accused of sexual violence do not interact with the criminal justice system, said Albert Fox Cahn, the founder of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Only 310 of 1,000 sexual assaults are reported to police, according to the anti-sexual violence organization Rainn.

The new $130 Echo Show 8 takes the top rank as the greatest Alexa smart display, with the Echo Show 10 being more novelty than necessity (that revolving screen doesn't support the $250 price tag). The second iteration of Amazon's mid-sized smart speaker with a display, which was released this month, combines some of the greatest features from the Show 10 (13-megapixel camera, digital zoom, and security camera functions) and compresses them into a more manageable size. The Echo Show 8 has a small enough footprint to sit on a bedside table or a kitchen counter. The Show 8 (available in Charcoal and Glacier White) offers the most bang (and screen size) for your buck, with a virtually identical design to its predecessor (same display, same speakers), but with a bit more behind the hood, including a new octo-core processing and a beefed-up camera. You can still watch shows, listen to music, control your smart home, send out announcements to your family, and check in on friends and family, but you can now zoom with a 13-megapixel camera.

The AI industry has major growth ahead, analysts say. The global artificial intelligence industry is expected to grow to $554 billion in total revenue by 2024, according to market research firm IDC. That amounts to some serious growth for an industry that generated revenue of $51.5 billion in 2021, according to market researcher Gartner. Virtually every industry is being disrupted by AI, automation and robotics. Whether it be machine learning, smart applications and appliances, digital assistants or autonomous vehicles, companies that aren't investing in AI products and services risk becoming obsolete.

Pinterest is moving deeper into e-commerce with some more features it announced at its annual advertiser summit. The platform says users have long been asking for a way to shop directly on Pinterest and you can now complete some purchases without leaving the app. The in-app checkout feature is currently in beta for some Shopify sellers in the US. Pinterest plans to expand access in the US this year. It will contact folks who run stores through Shopify with more details soon.

If you want a decent pair of true wireless earbuds at a good price, we've found them. Amazon is selling the JBL Live 300TWS earbuds for $48.70. The deal price covers the white model only. When we reviewed these earbud, we gave them 3.5 out of 5 stars. "Those on a budget will find the JBL Live 300 TWS's many features, equalizer, and good sound quality (with tweaking) worthy of consideration," we said.