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Typically, product managers are people with a background in project management who are interested in related areas and have hard skills in one of them. In my experience, designers are the least likely to become product managers (it is much better for a designer with managerial skills to stay in design management). Instead of regular courses in product management, I recommend my colleagues to focus on the current needs and their personal MDMA chart, and study analytics, design, marketing, project management or even technical management. Strong technical skills as they are, without management skills, are more characteristic of a system architect than of a product manager.

Having to perform individual product edits across multiple platforms and product categories simultaneously is quite tedious if your PIM solution does not offer bulk editing capabilities. An advanced PIM software provider needs to enable the clients to manage data and products with ease while considering the various categories on the site. You want your software to allow eCommerce store owners to categorize products based on specific traits, segment lists, post data across multiple platforms, and stay in control of new products being launched. In particular, integration with e-retailers stores via API2Cart enables a PIM software to retrieve product lists along with prices, images, descriptions, attributes, variants, categories, etc., send product data to marketplace listings on eBay, Etsy, Amazon, and more, plus get and update customer info, etc.

Here we will go through the applications of NLP, data preprocessing for text data and extracting features from text data. During Exploratory Data Analysis of text data, one important feature of text is the number of unique words which form the vocabulary of the text. Stop words are common words that have little or no meaning in a text. For text data, we will discuss two common text engineering practices: Count Vectorizer and Tf-Idf.

Unfortunately, Facebook is a bit more tight-lipped about their metrics. Let’s instead, consider some hypothetical metrics for facebook. com, and examine how the wrong metrics might create side effects counter to the mission. Let’s now assume another metric is core to the Facebook product organization. Then, take actions to update metrics or introduce threshold metrics to ensure you stay the course toward your company mission.

AI powered translators and autocorrect are praised as powerful tools but still fail when translating into gendered language, giving voice just to a “man”. Translation wasn’t bad, but while I wrote my story with a female narrator in mind, in Polish version it magically changed into a male. This is interesting and infuriating that if a language has two versions depending of the sex of the narrator (he or she) the default version is he seen as a default version of human being…. This is one of these situations where a human translator is better than an AI powered system because we, as people can read the context and draw conclusions while automated systems have a default setting and change the noun only if “she” is explicitly mentioned in the original text.

People who successfully build an audience care deeply about the work they do is very important to the audience and how this work will affect their audience. But if you want to build an audience for your work, you cannot treat your audience like your therapist. She cares about the people who work for her, the people in her audience, and her peers. Despite having opportunities to have his story made into a movie, write a book, and build a sizable audience, my old mentor Greg Hartle passed up on those opportunities because the only person for whom they would make a meaningful difference was himself.

The researchers said Tesla released an over-the-air software update to mitigate these issues.A major security flaw has been discovered in the keyless entry system of the Tesla Model X that allow hackers to take control of the system and steal the car in a few minutes using a Bluetooth connected key fob (remote control to lock and unlock cars). The researchers said Tesla released an over-the-air software update to mitigate these issues. The Tesla Model X key fob allows the owner to automatically unlock their car by approaching the vehicle, or by pressing a button.

While Christmas and New Year’s bookings are strong, periods before and after are weak, inspiring the 25-percent-off sale on Nov. 27 through Dec. 6, with rooms from $274, and 50 percent off spa services. Survival of the busiest is the invisible hand feeding Black Friday travel deals this year, which seem to be growing based on the number of first-time sales, deeper discounts and extra perks, all usually bundled with flexible cancellation policies. Notably this year, the Black Friday sale window has been expanded, not just to what is known as Cyber Week — the week following Thanksgiving — but to much of November. The online travel agency Expedia is lengthening its sale by five days this year, running through Dec. 1, often highlighting free cancellation policies.

UEFA Champions League Live Commentary for Juventus v Dynamo Kyiv on 2 December 2020, includes full match statistics and key events, instantly updated.

By Brian Ellsworth and Mayela Armas CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition is discussing scaling back the interim government of opposition leader Juan Guaido that has won diplomatic recognition by dozens of countries that disavowed President Nicolas Maduro, nine legislators told Reuters. Guaido, the leader of Venezuela's opposition-controlled parliament, in 2019 called Maduro a usurper following his disputed re-election and assumed a parallel presidency based on articles of the constitution that make the head of the National Assembly next in line to rule the country. CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition is discussing scaling back the interim government of opposition leader Juan Guaido that has won diplomatic recognition by dozens of countries that disavowed President Nicolas Maduro, nine legislators told Reuters. Guaido, the leader of Venezuela's opposition-controlled parliament, in 2019 called Maduro a usurper following his disputed re-election and assumed a parallel presidency based on articles of the constitution that make the head of the National Assembly next in line to rule the country.

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal if sanctions are not eased in twomonthsDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal if sanctions are not eased in twomonths. In retaliation for the killing last week of Iran's top nuclear scientist, which Tehran has blamed on Israel, Iran's hardline-dominated parliament on Tuesday approved the bill with a strong majority that will harden Iran's nuclear stance. Under the new law, Tehran would give two months to the deal's European parties to ease sanctions on Iran's oil and financial sectors, imposed after Washington quit the pact between Tehran and six powers in 2018.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming U.S. administration will have to make an early decision on what approach it will take with North Korea and not repeat the delay of the Obama era, a former U.S. official who has advised President-elect Joe Biden said on Wednesday."One of the key challenges of Biden administration is the need to make an early decision about what to do with respect to North Korea," Campbell said. Campbell had praise for the "extraordinarily bold strokes" of outgoing President Donald Trump's North Korea diplomacy, which involved unprecedented summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, though so far no progress in persuading him to give up nuclear weapons and missiles that threaten the United States."Early signals to North Korea will be something that will be near the top of the list of the Biden team as they assume office," he said.

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia has put 170 'high value' wild elephants up for sale due to drought and an increase in elephant numbers, the southern African country's environmental ministry said on Wednesday. An advertisement carried by state-owned daily New Era said an increase in incidents of human-elephant conflict motivated the sale of the large mammal that is at risk of extinction due to poaching and ecological factorsWINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia has put 170 "high value" wild elephants up for sale due to drought and an increase in elephant numbers, the southern African country's environmental ministry said on Wednesday. An advertisement carried by state-owned daily New Era said an increase in incidents of human-elephant conflict motivated the sale of the large mammal that is at risk of extinction due to poaching and ecological factors.

The fate of TikTok is still up in the air, but in 2020 the app became even more popular, as the pandemic forced us onto our phones to alleviate stress and boredom. We’re still bored in the house, and in the house bored. Her work has previously appeared in the Austin Chronicle, the Dallas Observer, NPR, ESPN, Bitch, and the Village Voice. She is based in Austin, Texas.

So much of 2020 has been a never-ending hellscape where time seems to exist on another level that, after eight months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re already recycling our way through memes. And while a now-iconic Glee scene isn’t necessarily a new meme, it’s now getting a vast second life online. Michelle Jaworski is a staff writer and TV/film critic at the Daily Dot. She covers entertainment, geek culture, and pop culture and has covered everything from the Sundance Film Festival, NYFF, and Tribeca to New York Comic Con and Con of Thrones.

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Jihoon is not a member of The Boyz. He is one of the two leaders of the group Treasure and a solo artist. He and Younghoon are also in the show Love Revolution. Watch it, by the way...

Promising review: "I love this dress!I got the green and black print and I think it is even more beautiful in person.—Target reviewerPrice: $37 (available in sizes XS-4X and black)

She shared, "This collab is inspired by the world of Chromatica, where kindness rules all things.I love these pink cookies with green creme, and hope they brighten your day as much as they do mine!"

Don't want to do Elf on the shelf this holiday season?Perhaps you'd be interested in trying:

This top 10 viral TikToks of the year list comes straight from TikTok itself, which told BuzzFeed News that it's based on "total engagements on the app including views, creations, growth and likes."If you spent any time on TikTok this year, you inevitably found yourself humming this song at random moments. The "wipe it" trend, set to "Wipe It Down" by BMW Kenny, was hugely popular on TikTok in 2020. Caitlin Reilly was a breakout TikTok star this year thanks to her videos mimicking the people we love to hate.

WASHINGTON: Outgoing President Donald Trump has left America more divided than ever and the country's reputation under his presidency has been damaged on the international stage which will take years to repair, says an influential Indian-American Sikh leader.“This is a democracy at work, on both sides.I believe people do care who will represent them, especially in times like the Covid-19 pandemic,” Indiana-based Gurinder Singh Khalsa told PTI.A recipient of the prestigious Rosa Parks Trailblazer Award in recognition of his efforts in changing the Transportation Security Administration's policy regarding turbans, 46-year-old Khalsa, though a member of Republican party, did not vote for Trump in this election or in 2016.“I do not think he is morally or ethically fit to be president, especially the leader of the free world. It is those like Trump who have twisted the foundation of what it means to be a Republican,” he said. On the election of Indian-origin Kamala Harris as Vice President of the country, Khalsa said that it gives confidence to the people of color and immigrant community “Kamala Harris is a powerful accomplishment for America and provides a ray of hope for relations with India. And her win is just the beginning,” he said. One of the early supporters of Vice President Mike Pence when he was running for Indiana Governor, Khalsa said he is deeply disappointed at the four years of Trump Administration .

When a conversation fizzles, you need to ask the right questions to your conversation partner. Whether you’re talking to an old friend or a new person you’ve just met, a good question has the potential to make a conversation last for hours on end. In order to make you come across as more interesting in any conversation, you should ask an open question that will help you get to know a person better. How can we make this webpage/store better?

You want to start your day early by shopping together and completing chores. You want to go for an early morning run together and get your adrenaline pumping. You want to be spoiled with breakfast in bed. You want to be left alone until you’re more awake and ready to start your day.

Iran passed a law on Wednesday to immediately begin enriching uranium to a level closer to weapons grade and to suspend the access of international inspectors to its nuclear facilities if sanctions are not lifted by early February, shortly after President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes office. The law was the clearest fallout yet from the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, which Iranian officials have promised to avenge. The law orders Iran’s atomic energy agency to begin enriching uranium to 20 percent immediately, returning Iran’s enrichment program to the level that existed before the 2015 nuclear agreement. President Trump, who made containing Iran a main foreign policy goal of his administration, has considered attacking Iran during his lame-duck period.

Parul: I have never read anything quite like the brilliantly pessimistic fiction of the Croatian writer Dasa Drndic; her treatment of historical amnesia, of political despair and shame, felt blazingly new. Dwight: Philippe Lançon, who wrote criticism for the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, was in its offices on the morning of Jan. 7, 2015, when two gunmen claiming allegiance to ISIS forced themselves inside and slaughtered 12 people. Eleven others were wounded, including Lançon, who essentially had the lower part of his face shot off. His memoir, “Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo,” is extraordinary.

It could also be a good time to join a ski club to alleviate planning headaches. Domestic quarantine restrictions willmake interstate travel tricky as well. Right now, for example, New Mexico requires a two-week quarantine for visitors from high-risk states (and that means only Hawaii residents can skip it, as of Nov. 23). Vermont has some of the most stringent travel restrictions in the country, with either a 14-day quarantine or a shorter quarantine with a negative test.

Rafer Johnson, who carried the American flag into Rome’s Olympic Stadium in August 1960 as the first Black captain of a United States Olympic team and went on to win gold in a memorable decathlon duel, bringing him acclaim as the world’s greatest all-around athlete, died on Wednesday at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles. He became a good-will ambassador for the United States and a close associate of the Kennedy family, taking a leadership role in the Special Olympics, which were championed by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and joining Robert F. Kennedy’s entourage during Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1968. Johnson’s national profile was largely molded at the 1960 Olympics, one of the most celebrated in the history of the Games, a moment when a host of African-American athletes burst triumphantly onto the world stage. Oscar Robertson helped take the United States basketball team to a gold medal.

Mr. Perdue disputes the notion that his investment activity posed a conflict, saying that his trades were handled by outside advisers without his input, although his instructions to Goldman Sachs to sell Cardlytics suggest that he directed at least some trades. In April, after questions were raised about stock trades that Mr. Perdue and other senators had made around the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, he abruptly sold virtually all of his stock holdings — between $3.2 million and $9.4 million worth. Though Mr. Perdue has been unusually active in stock trading, his robust investing activity highlights broader questions once again being debated, more than eight years after the passage of the STOCK Act, a law meant to grapple with the ethical issues inherent in lawmakers’ buying and selling stocks. While there is no law or regulation prohibiting such trading, the practice has long invited questions about possible conflicts — and the potential for insider trading — that can arise when members of powerful congressional committees buy and sell shares of companies directly affected by the issues before them.

The first order of business is triaging who gets the vaccine first; NHS has already agreed to adhere to recommendations from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation to prioritize older adults who are living in care facilities, followed by those who are 80 and older, and frontline healthcare workers. Then, it’s off to the main hubs: At first, vaccines will be administered at roughly 50 hospitals that already have the ultra-cold storage needed to keep the vaccine stable. After these first two groups have been served, the NHS plans to set up roughly 1,500 vaccine distribution centers across the country. Like the UK, the US has also preordered Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine (100 million of doses), and an advisory group to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has similarly recommended that healthcare workers and nursing home residents are first to get the vaccine.

The solution is energy storage: big batteries that can capture and release power from intermittent sources when it’s most efficient. But in the last three months, the US energy storage market has absolutely boomed, according to new data from Wood Mackenzie—giving renewables a major boost in the fight to displace fossil fuels. NextEra Energy, the country’s biggest utility, already has plans to spend $1 billion on storage systems next year alone.“These eye-catching deployment totals represent only the beginning of a long-anticipated scale up for the US storage market,” said Dan Finn-Foley, WoodMac’s head of energy storage.

Talented nature photographer Andreas Kay, who sadly passed away in October 2019, captured incredible footage of what appears to be a walking snowflake or kernel of popcorn. While this tiny creature is neither of those things, it is a flatid planthopper nymph that’s covered in bulbous waxy secretions that assist in personal safety. This particular subfamily of planthopper is found in the Amazon Forest. This tiny Flatid Planthopper Nymph from the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador is covered with waxy filaments for protection.

China has launched an unmanned spacecraft that aims to retrieve rock and soil samples from the moon. China on Tuesday sent a robotic spacecraft on its way to the moon to collect rock samples there and bring them back to Earth for the first time in more than four decades. The Chang’e-5 spacecraft was carried into space by the Long March-5, China’s largest carrier rocket, which blasted off from Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern Chinese island of Hainan at 4:30 a.m. Beijing time (Monday 2030 UTC). The Chang’e-5 mission, coordinated by the China National Space Administration, is named after the ancient Chinese goddess of the moon.

Britain approved Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine Wednesday, jumping ahead of the United States and Europe to become the West’s first country to formally endorse a jab it said should reach the most vulnerable people early “next week.”Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) granted emergency use approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which they say is 95 per cent effective in preventing illness, in record time — just 23 days since Pfizer published the first data from its final stage clinical trial which involved more than 43,000 people. Britain’s medicines regulator approved the vaccine in record time – partly by doing a “rolling” concurrent analysis of data and the manufacturing process while Pfizer raced to conclude trials. The US regulator, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is set to meet on December 10 to discuss whether to recommend emergency use authorization of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and the European Medicines Agency said it could give emergency approval for the shot by December 29.

The leading technology companies have seen their market caps', influence, and power expand over the past months. Since the March low, the leading technology stocks recovered made new record highs and moved to levels where valuations expect a continuous stream of earnings and growth rate. The Chinese government has allowed entrepreneurs in the technology sector to flourish, but the government keeps a tight grip on the sector as its political system considers technology innovation a matter of national security, and its goal is to dominate on a global basis. Moreover, handing the technology power to the Chinese is a matter of national security for the US and Europe, which is a powerful argument for the advocates of the status quo in the technology sector.

On December 10 , the private accommodation platform will put 51.9 million shares on the market. Of these, 50 million are owned by the company and 1.9 million will be sold by the current shareholders of the company. In a presentation Tuesday, Airbnb said it was looking to sell up to $ 2.6 billion in shares in its initial public offering. Thus, they created a concept that changed the way of traveling for the 4 million guests and more than 825 million clients that they have under their belt.

Just about anyone could make full use of some wholesome memes now and then. In this world full of chaos and failure, it's good to be reminded that some things are still nice, and there's a base level of understanding between people. It can seem like the world is falling apart sometimes, but it's good to have some wholesome memes to help wade through the muck.

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A passage from former President Barack Obama’s new book A Promised Land has inspired a new meme on TikTok. Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter based in Seattle, covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.

In President Donald Trump’s increasingly desperate and futile effort to overturn the election, an attorney has turned to the longtime administrator of 8kun, home of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Claire Goforth is an award winning journalist covering politics and justice from her home base in Jacksonville, Florida. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from regional alt-weeklies to Al Jazeera.

If you live life to the fittest, you likely have a dedicated workout mask that you reuse.I mean, why wouldn’t you?Reusable masks are better for the environment and by the time you’re done exercising, that mask is smelly, sweaty, and probably just gets tossed into your gym bag (where it will stay until you wash it and repeat the process). Well, I hate to break it to you, but you’re not doing yourself any favors here.

Medical TikTok has a powerful presence on the short-form video app, with some viral videos dispensing bite-sized chunks of information that can keep you healthy. Others, like this woman’s horrifying story of contracting pinworms as a kid, will make you want to put your phone in the driveway and back over it with your car. Bryan Rolli is a reporter who specializes in streaming entertainment. He writes about music and film for Forbes, Billboard, and the Austin American-Statesman.

Studio FOW’s upcoming adult game Subverse was embroiled in controversy last weekend after the studio partnered with a far-right YouTuber for an exclusive gameplay preview. But after the studio published another public statement on Kickstarter, backers across the political spectrum threatened to pull their support from Subverse. Ana Valens is a reporter specializing in online queer communities, marginalized identities, and adult content creation. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and spends her free time developing queer adult games.

Iran’s top political chamber gave final approval to a bill forcing President Hassan Rouhani to end nuclear inspections unless the U.S. lifts key sanctions by February, giving the incoming Biden administration just weeks to make a diplomatic breakthrough. The nuclear accord placed strict limits of 3.67% on the purity level of enriched uranium Iran is allowed but it abandoned the cap after Trump withdrew from the agreement and other partners were unable to offer promised relief from sanctions. Iran’s hardline parliament fast-tracked the law’s passage on Tuesday after Iran accused Israel and the U.S. of killing Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top nuclear scientist, last week. Increased tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and incidents like the killing of Fakhrizadeh could complicate life for the incoming Biden administration, which has pledged to end Trump’s economic offensive against Tehran and re-engage diplomatically.

A few years ago, I stumbled across a January 1988 New York Times article about people who’d recently given to the paper’s Neediest Cases Fund — which dates back to Christmas Day 1911 and solicits donations from readers for the less fortunate — and was delighted to read that my mother had donated $100 in my father’s name. At the time, she was working for the Legal Aid Society of New York in Queens as a public defender and likely did not have an abundance of disposable income. More and more — and especially at the end of a year during which the sitting government has failed so many — I’m trying to channel her easy generosity.A contribution to the 2020-21 campaign will support 10 carefully chosen social welfare agencies (you can specify which if you’d like), from Children’s Aid to World Central Kitchen to First Book.

Iran’s leaders threatened on Saturday to retaliate over the assassination of the country’s top nuclear scientist, blaming Israel and pledging to continue the work of the man who American and Israeli officials believe was the architect of what they call the country’s secretive nuclear weapons program. But Germany, a key U.S. ally in Europe, urged all sides not to allow the last weeks of the Trump administration to obliterate hopes for fresh negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.“A few weeks before the new U.S. administration takes office, it is important to preserve the scope for talks with Iran so that the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program can be resolved through negotiations,” a spokesman for Germany’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. President Trump’s 2018 withdrawal from the nuclear accord between Iran and six world powers unraveled the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor, Barack Obama, and distanced the United States from Western allies, including Germany, which tried to keep the agreement intact.