The United States Geological Survey confirmed a second earthquake happened in Lake County Thursday
By: Kaylyn Hlavaty
Posted at 10:18 AM, Jan 27, 2022 and last updated 2:39 PM, Jan 27, 2022
LAKE COUNTY, Ohio — The United States Geological Survey confirmed a second earthquake happened in Lake County Thursday.
The second earthquake,
with a 2.5 magnitude, happened approximately 1.2 miles North Northwest
of Lakeline, which was the same area where the first earthquake occurred
Thursday morning.
The 2.5 magnitude earthquake was about 3 miles under Lake Erie.
The first earthquake Thursday measured at 2.1 magnitudes and happened about 1.86 miles northwest of Lakeline. The USGS said the earthquake was about 1.1 miles under Lake Erie.
This is the fourth earthquake to hit Lake County in January.
The earthquake that occurred Jan. 4 measured at a 2.8 magnitude and was located about 1.25 miles northwest of Timberlake.
The
day after, another earthquake measured at 1.9 magnitude was recorded at
5:25 a.m., about 3 miles north of Timberlake, the USGS confirmed.
Lake
County is no stranger to the occasional earthquake. In December 2019,
News 5 reported two earthquakes that happened in a matter of a week
offshore in Lake Erie.
One of the earthquakes recorded in December
2019 measured 2.6, a scale of seismic activity that can generally be
felt by residents in the area.
Google has scrapped FLoC, its controversial cookie replacement.
Now it’s back with Topics—but rivals and privacy experts are still
nervous
Google’s plan to remove
third-party cookies from Chrome hasn’t gone smoothly. Back in January
2020 the company announced it would overhaul Chrome by removing cookies
that follow people around the web within two years. Well, now it’s
January 2022 and Google is back with another plan. This week the company
announced it was scrapping Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a key part of its plan, and replacing it with a new system called Topics.
Topics is just one element of Google’s wider Privacy Sandbox
plan to bring about the end of third-party cookies in Chrome. On the
face of it, it’s a move to improve user privacy. But many privacy
experts have argued that it’s impact will be limited. And even the ad
tech industry isn’t happy,
with rivals arguing that Google is attempting to reshape online
advertising in its image. In the third quarter of 2021 alone, the search
giant made $53 billion from advertising—but the online world in which Google operates is changing.
When
it comes to limiting third-party cookies, Google is way behind its
rivals. Safari, Firefox, and Brave have all restricted them for years.
Apple’s Safari started doing so back in 2017. But what Google does will have by far the biggest impact. Chrome hogs 63 percent
of the global browser market—meaning Google is likely to set a standard
that others might be forced to follow. After failing with FLoC, the
company is now presenting Topics as a different plan for the future of
online advertising. Onlookers aren’t so sure.
Topics
works by analyzing your browsing history to work out the things you’re
interested in. If you like cars, for example, Topics will show you
adverts for cars on the websites that you visit. To work out that you
like cars, each website that uses Google’s Topics API will be assigned
an overall category. A website about tattooing, for instance, may fall
into the body art category; a city newspaper would likely be assigned to
the local news category.
As
you move around the web, Chrome will record the categories you visit
the most. Then, each week, your five most popular categories will be
gathered up—Google says this process is done on your device and not on
its servers—and a sixth random topic will be added to add some noise in
the system. These six categories are then shared with the websites you
visit and are used to target the ads you see. The data is deleted after
three weeks. …
The system Google planned to replace cookies is now itself being replaced with a slightly different idea
Google’s “indecision” over what system it wants to replace cookies has been criticised by some in the ad industry.
It
comes as the technology giant said an interest-based user-tracking
system, Topics, would now replace its earlier proposal, Floc.
One marketing executive said: “This constant indecision does not inspire confidence.”
Third-party cookies use people’s browsing history to target ads that then follow them from site to site.
Privacy advocates and regulators have increasingly fought against them.
And
Google has agreed to restrict their number on websites accessed via its
Chrome browser, which commands about 65% of market share.
It had originally planned to block them from this year but postponed the move until 2023.
‘Half-baked idea’
Floc
(Federated Learning of Cohorts) aimed to disguise users’ individual
identities by assigning them to a group, or flock, with similar browsing
histories.
But the idea was unpopular with both privacy advocates and advertisers
Farhad
Divecha, founder of digital marketing agency AccuraCast said it “didn’t
make sense to most advertisers, who aren’t technical data analysts”.
“The
system was met with a lot of criticism when Google launched it,” he
said, “and it largely felt like a half-baked idea Google prematurely
pushed out the door in response to changes in advertising and privacy.”
“The past year has made it fairly clear that Google still aren’t really sure of the best way forward.“ …
Government insider says announcement about abolishing licence fee was not expected this weekend
… Six Conservative MPs had publicly called for
Johnson’s resignation by late Sunday and one backbencher said that he
knew there were “a lot of letters written but not necessarily sent yet”
to the chair of the Conservative 1922 Committee demanding a confidence
vote.
The MP said the mood in his “red wall”
constituency had gone from “anger to ridicule” and that Johnson had
become the butt of jokes among some who voted for him in December 2019.
The backbencher said “the term ‘shitshow’ was used a lot last week [by
Tory MPs]” and that they were waiting for the forthcoming report into
the partygate scandal before deciding what to do next.
James Johnson, a Tory pollster, delivered a similar insight into popular revulsion with the PM on Sunday when he tweeted the findings from focus groups
carried out with long-term Conservative voters, and people who backed
the party for the first time in 2019, and he reported that calls for the
PM to quit were “almost universal”.
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