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NEW RESOURCES
Cult of Mac: New website showcases high-quality photos of every Mac released. “To celebrate the Macintosh’s 40th birthday, the author of a celebrated book about Macs created a website featuring photos of every Mac ever released. Jonathan Zufi, author of Iconic: A Photographic Tribute To Apple Innovation, just launched… a new website with more than 1,000 photos of every Mac, ever.”
University of Sheffield: World’s largest database of weeds lets scientists peer into the past, and future, of global agriculture. “The database is the culmination of 30 years of collaborative research from archaeologists and ecologists working at the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford. It catalogues nearly 1000 species of weeds growing in traditional agricultural regimes in Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.” The database is open access.
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Poynter: How fact-checking is evolving — and having a real impact on the world. “‘Fake news’ loves a crisis. It’s clear now that false information has played a role in recent events around the world from divisive elections to the COVID-19 pandemic to the conflict roiling Israel and Gaza. It is important to counter false claims and false narratives. And research now shows a lot more clarity about how to do this.”
Business Insider: Google’s efforts to shrink its workforce in Korea have hit a snag as some employees are refusing to go. “About 10 Google employees from its office in Seoul had accepted the company’s suggestion to resign, the outlet reported. But according to the Korean labor-law firm KangNam, the law doesn’t allow employers with five or more workers to dismiss them without just cause.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Verge: Google Pixel users are again suffering from a storage bug. “Multiple Google Pixel owners are reporting issues with their devices after installing the new January 2024 Google Play system update, resulting in access issues to data kept on internal storage. Symptoms include crashing apps, an inability to play music or videos, and being unable to access the phone camera.”
Fast Company: Groove, an app that lets people find coworking partners, emerges from beta “Many office workers have rejoiced in the ability to work from home in the post-pandemic years, but for those who miss the camaraderie of an office or coworking space, a startup called Groove lets people find coworking partners by the hour.”
New York Times: Why Making Face Computers Cool Isn’t Easy. “Broadly speaking, the problem with headsets has less to do with technology and more to do with behavior: People quickly get tired of wearing a computer on their face, the devices end up in closets, and software developers lose interest in making apps. Sales of mixed reality and virtual reality headsets fell 8.3 percent last year, according to the research firm IDC, though they may rebound this year with Apple entering the market.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
404 Media: Inside a Global Phone Spy Tool Monitoring Billions. “Hundreds of thousands of ordinary apps, including popular ones such as 9gag, Kik, and a series of caller ID apps, are part of a global surveillance capability that starts with ads inside each app, and ends with the apps’ users being swept up into a powerful mass monitoring tool advertised to national security agencies that can track the physical location, hobbies, and family members of people to build billions of profiles, according to a 404 Media investigation.”
The Root: Oh.My.God:Police Say Clout Chasing Youtuber Tortured Animals in Videos . “A woman from Upper Darby, Pa. has been slammed with multiple charges stemming from a series of complaints made about her YouTube channel. She wasn’t spreading lies about celebs or pretending to be an AI robot – the police say she was torturing animals.” This article is extremely disturbing and if you want to skip it I don’t blame you.
RESEARCH & OPINION
WIRED: Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them. “New data shows that over 88 percent of top-ranked news outlets in the US now block web crawlers used by artificial intelligence companies to collect training data for chatbots and other AI projects. One sector of the news business is a glaring outlier, though: Right-wing media lags far behind their liberal counterparts when it comes to bot-blocking.”
University of Missouri: The more the merrier: Research shows online interventions with social support help middle-aged adults with obesity lose weight. “As many make — and often fail to keep — New Year’s resolutions about exercise and weight loss goals, University of Missouri researcher Mansoo Yu has completed a long-term study that highlights which specific features of online weight loss interventions are most likely to lead to long-term weight loss and maintenance. Yu found that counseling with professional health coaches and social support from other users are the two most beneficial features of online weight-loss programs for middle-aged adults (ages 35-55) with obesity or overweight.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
George Mason University: New video camera system captures the colored world that animals see. “A George Mason University scientist and team of researchers developed a new camera system that allows ecologists and filmmakers to produce videos that accurately replicate the colors that different animals see in natural settings, according to a report in the open access journal PLOS Biology.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 25, 2024 at 06:31PM
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