Malta has registered 182 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 2,843 swab tests, while 185 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.
As of Saturday 30th January 2021, 26,847 vaccine doses were administered of which 3,456 were 2nd doses.
To date, Malta has registered 17,903 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 14,960 have recovered, 267 died and 2,676 are still active.
Streaming giant Spotify has filed a patent for technology which analyses listeners’ vocal patterns and suggests music based on their emotions.
The patent highlights how common it is for streaming programmes to utilise personalised recommendation features, going on to highlight how the app will collect data on the listeners feelings through voice recognition.
This could thus analyse the mood of the listener and suggest more accurate music based on vocal inflection, timbre, pitch and more, which will allow the app to understand gender, age, mood and accent.
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33-year-old Argentine Lionel Messi has made a name for himself as one of the greatest players of all time, and his recently-leaked contract reveals that his earnings reflect that.
Spanish newspaper ‘El Mundo’ revealed access to Messi’s 2017 contract with Barcelona with income that could reach as much as €138 million per season, of which he would have to pay about half in Spanish taxes.
The newspaper stated that it was the most expensive athletic contract ever secured meaning that when his time at Barcelona comes to an end, only a club with deep pockets could afford to cater for his move.
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In a recent study commissioned by ‘it-Torċa’, statistician Dr. Vincent Marmarà revealed that Robert Abela achieved the highest trust rating amongst the electorate.
52.7% of subjects stated that Abela is best to lead the country with 33.2% replying that the prefer Nationalist Party Leader Bernard Grech.
Dr. Marmarà explained that, like all other political studies, he utilised the Multiple Imputation Technique, which finds a logical and appropriate replacement for those who refused to reply or did not know, using a scientific model.
He went on to state that, through this scientific result, one can see a gap of 19.5% between both leaders.
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