By ResearchBuzz
NEW RESOURCES
KTVH: New website offers a resource hub for all in child care. “The Montana Child Care Business Connect Program, part of Zero to Five Montana, helps support the start, and expansion, of high-quality, early child care businesses in Montana, and they just unveiled their new online resource hub for all stakeholders in the child care industry.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Android Police: Google Street View returns to Germany after 10+ year pause due to privacy outcry . “One of the countries to shun the service early on was Germany, where privacy outcries and lawsuits led to Google halt the Street View rollout in 2011 after only covering about 20 big cities, shortly after it was launched in the country. Fast-forward to 2023, and the company is finally returning to the European country, allowing tourists and residents to explore sights and neighborhoods with up-to-date imagery.”
USEFUL STUFF
Vanderbilt Magazine: How to Make a Time Capsule. “[Tracy Denean] Sharpley-Whiting says that the grand sweep of aspirations across time is exactly what a capsule should communicate. So as she, Smith and University Librarian Jon Shaw work together to design a time capsule that will convey a message to the future university community, they share tips about how to create your own.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
AFP: Louvre Safeguarding Ukraine Art Treasures. “The Louvre in Paris is hosting 16 works of art, including 1,500-year-old Byzantine icons, from a museum in Kyiv in order to protect them from the war, it said Wednesday.”
IrishCentral: Genealogists treasure trove! More Irish community archives to go online. “The Heritage Council joins the National Museum of Ireland and participating local authorities in funding the digitization of Ireland’s community archives, through the Irish Community Archive Network (iCAN). More than 30 digital community archives created to date – and 80 to be supported by 2028.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
CNN: National Archives refutes claims Trump had two years to go through presidential records in rare public statement. “The National Archives is pushing back on claims made by former President Donald Trump, his lawyers and his allies over his retention of classified documents, for which he now faces a federal indictment. On Friday, the Archives took the rare step of releasing a public statement rebuking claims suggesting that Trump was allowed to keep classified materials under the Presidential Records Act.”
TechCrunch: US DoJ charges two Russians for hacking crypto exchange Mt. Gox. “The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two Russian nationals for hacking and causing the subsequent collapse of Mt. Gox, one of the largest and most popular crypto exchanges. In an unsealed indictment, the DoJ named Alexey Bilyuchenko, 43, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, of hacking the exchange and conspiring to launder about 647,000 bitcoins, worth about $17.2 billion today.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
News and Tribune: OUR VIEW: YouTube changes policy on false claims, but we should know better by now. “… this statement sums up what journalists have been screaming for years. You can’t trust social media to monitor posts, which means false information can spread like wildfire on platforms like YouTube. The Google-owned company concedes it will no longer remove disinformation, which is a red flag to those who value truth.”
The Verge: How Google Earth Engine revolutionized the way we monitor deforestation. “What started as an engineer’s curiosity about a logging project in California became a groundbreaking platform that allows for fast and global monitoring of forest loss.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Make: Using ChatGPT and Raspberry Pi To Build A Never Ending Story Book. “Most people will agree that the biggest and most common problem with a good story, is that it ends. This project, put together by Erin St. Blaine for Adafruit address that with the unending capabilities of ChatGPT and a Raspberry Pi.” Good afternoon, Internet…
Do you like ResearchBuzz? Does it help you out? Please consider supporting it on Patreon. Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Check out Search Gizmos when you have a minute.
June 12, 2023 at 12:34AM
via ResearchBuzz https://ift.tt/Oow0uFN
No comments:
Post a Comment