Princess of Wales: the shocking revelation and symbolism of daffodils and the lone bench By Hemantha Yapa Abeywardena from United Kingdom Kate Middleton has revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer. image Source:-ndtv.com It may be cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words, but its impact on the human psyche has been remaining unchallenged for eons. Having come under intense media scrutiny that bordered on sheer intrusion of privacy, Catherine, Princess of Wales GCVO, casually known as Kate Middleton, finally came out two weeks ago, disclosing her serious illness – the dreaded cancer. Even in the good old days, her life had not been easy: appearing in a new outfit every single day without giving any ammunition to the media to amplify even a minor flaw to be flashed across the front pages; she has to be all smiles every single minute in public; endless public engagements without ...

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Challenges in using bot computation to ethics of the Web – By Aditya Abeysinghe Respecting users A web ethic that is commonly maintained is respecting users. Respecting each user by others during meetings, informal communication, and formal communication is often maintained to ensure that each party is not disrespected and insulted. By respecting others, qualities of communication and human qualities are enhanced which may cause better information to be exchanged. However, bots (chatbots and other bot types) used for websites and web-based apps have little to no intelligence on how to respect users as they just transfer data between two ends and use trained models based on machine learning and other analysis techniques. Some bots may improve how they exchange data during communication by learning and updating their inner model used. However, emotional qualities of bots are few compared to that of humans. This has been one disadvantage of bots ...

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