Connecting to the source…     About the 15% of people suffer from diagnosed allergic rhinitis and the 30% report suffering from related symptoms, which may negatively affect their quality of life and sleep, even performance at work and school.   For many patients, probably in half, the usual medicines (nasal sprays, antihistamine pills etc.) are not effective or have unwanted side effects.   Pollen immunotherapy may have’ these people good results.   Pollen immunotherapy is given either as a monthly injection, or with a pill that is placed under the tongue every day.   Immunotherapy can fight the symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis, such as stuffy nose, sneezing, eye irritation etc.

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With a letter, which the creator of Facebook, names as “manifesto” the social network decides to filter its content.   Facebook's goal is to free every user - as much as possible- from fake news, content that promotes racism, exposes the naked or insults people and ideologies. There have been many cases where Facebook removed content that had historical value because it depicted naked children, while in other cases, messages with hate speech or racist content circulated freely within it.   For that reason, ο Mark Zuckerberg, found time to write a letter 6.000 words approx, in which he describes a new era of Facebook's algorithms, posing, in fact, very high bar, as he considers his vision of connecting the world through the social network to come closer to completion, combating all phenomena that cause trouble and unrest.   Ο Mr. Facebook has very high goals, but Facebook users continue to be in dire need of better tools to filter the content they receive in their daily news feed. For Facebook the solution to a more connected world lies in the social network's best operating algorithms, which are expected to be endowed with artificial intelligence.

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Liu Jian's short but meaningful Chinese animation, depicts a modern dystopia that could well be described in the novels of Philip Dick, but at the same time to so vividly represent today's reality.   A bag full of money sparks a series of unexpected encounters between disparate characters, in the first Chinese animation in the history of the Berlinale to take part in its International Competition section. A stereotypical gangster with his requisite taciturn executioners, a young driver who wants to satisfy his girlfriend's vain dreams, a lumpen couple dreaming of moments of socialist happiness and a middle-aged man with surreal technological gadgets, they revolve around the fantasy of an economic utopia, oxymoron enforced by the decadent capitalist symbols present in almost every scene of this brilliant little film.   Continue at source ...