Researchers have discovered nine new genes linked to the most severe type of childhood speech disorder (CAS) -- apraxia, in which a child has difficulty making accurate movements when speaking.

The spending by the Mississippi Department of Human Services showed Brett Favre had been paid $1.1 million for three speaking engagements, none of which he participated in.

Brett Favre said he never 'no-showed' anyone for advertisements, speaking engagements of anything like that.

Sudhir Krishnaswamy also clarifies that he won't be representing cases related to India, but willl look at content moderation questions from around the world.

While the nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19 came to an end today, and several state governments have already announced the lockdown extension in their states, today, on 14 April at 10 am, PM Narendra Modi has announced the extension

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Now, analysts at New Yorks University of Rochester are fighting back with an AI of their own.

The team collected about a quarter of a million unique English tweets from between Sept. 23—the first reported incident of hate-code words—and Oct. 18—a week after the second US presidential election debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

There were some interesting observations that we noted.

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Anne Simpson will be taking part in the National Arts Centre’s #CanadaPerforms initiative, with a Facebook Live performance. She’ll read from her latest novel, Speechless, and …

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday announced the launch of the UN Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has backed "new forms of self-policing by social media platforms" and action by volunteer groups to fight hate speech spreading at "lightning speed" through digital media.

Andy Wood and Matt Kirshen test the limits of everyday AI by using children of a variety of ages in linguistics tests designed to determine which AI is the best at understanding the most people. Featuring Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Siri. Check out more of Matt and Andy on their podcast at http://www.probablyscience.com

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Did people domesticate animals? Or did they domesticate themselves? Online News Editor David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about a recent study that looked at self-domesticating mice. If they could go it alone, could cats or dogs have done the same in the distant past? Next, Sinan Aral of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge joins Sarah to discuss his work on true and false rumor cascades across all of Twitter, since its inception. He finds that false news travels further, deeper, and faster than true news, regardless of the source of the tweet, the kind of news it was, or whether bots were involved. In a bonus segment recording during a live podcasting event at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, Sarah first speaks with Ben Munson of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis about markers of gender and sexual orientation in spoken language and then Adrienne Hancock of The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., talks about using what we know about gender and communication to help transgender women change their speech and communication style. Live recordings sessions at the AAAS meeting were supported by funds from the European Commission. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Rudolf Jakkel (CC0); Music: Jeffrey Cook]

Dewey Library - JC591.F56 2019

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Speech bubbles are a popular effect but many tutorials rely on presentational HTML or JavaScript. This tutorial contains various forms of speech bubble effect created with CSS 2.1 and enhanced with CSS3. No images, no JavaScript and it can be applied to your existing semantic HTML.

The CSS file used in the demo page is heavily commented so that you can see which lines of code are responsible for each part of the effects.

Demo: Pure CSS speech bubbles

Support: Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+, Chrome 4+, Opera 10+, IE8+.

Progressive enhancement with pseudo-elements

With HTML as simple as <div>Content</div> or <p>Content</p> you can produce speech bubble effects like this:

Add a child element, for example, <blockquote><p>Quote</p></blockquote> and you can even produce speech bubble effects like this:

I’d encourage you to adapt the examples to your needs and use any other associated elements available to you in your existing HTML document. The key is to use the :before and/or :after pseudo-elements to produce basic shapes.

By applying CSS3 properties such as border-radius and transform you can produce more complex shapes and orientations. This is how the heart-shape in my CSS typography experiment was created.

Example code

This is an example of how to create a basic speech bubble with a few enhancements. For further examples see the demo page and the heavily commented CSS file that it uses.

/* Bubble with an isoceles triangle
------------------------------------------ */

.triangle-isosceles {
  position: relative;
  padding: 15px;
  margin: 1em 0 3em;
  color: #000;
  background: #f3961c;
  border-radius: 10px;
  background: linear-gradient(top, #f9d835, #f3961c);
}

/* creates triangle */
.triangle-isosceles:after {
  content: "";
  display: block; /* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
  position: absolute;
  bottom: -15px;
  left: 50px;
  width: 0;
  border-width: 15px 15px 0;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #f3961c transparent;
}

A note on progressive enhancement

This approach is one of progressive enhancement. Styles are built up in layers from simple coloured boxes, to boxes with a “speech tick” of some kind, to rounded rectangles or circles with gradient backgrounds. Browsers render the styles that they are capable of rendering.

Browsers (such as IE6 and IE7) that do not adequately support CSS 2.1 or those (such as IE8) without support for the necessary CSS3 properties will not look broken; they will simply not get the full speech bubble effect. However…

A warning about Firefox 3.0

Firefox 3.0 supports the necessary CSS 2.1 pseudo-elements but does not support the positioning of generated content.

Some of the examples are close to what I consider to be unacceptably broken in Firefox 3.0. It is the only browser above 2% market share — currently at ~4% as of March 2010 according to NetApplications — that cannot handle even the basic speech bubble effects.

Before applying this technique, consider the importance of Firefox 3.0 support and the percentage of your visitors currently using this browser. Eventually it will become a rare browser but due to it’s partial CSS 2.1 support you should be aware that there is no graceful fallback for Firefox 3.0 when using this technique.

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