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Friday, July 30, 2021

Scotland Genealogy, Samsung Electronics, Facebook Smart Glasses, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 30, 2021

Scotland Genealogy, Samsung Electronics, Facebook Smart Glasses, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 30, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

The Courier: Largest collection of Scottish family history records now available online through Findmypast. “The vast new online collection of Old Parish Records has been published in collaboration with local archives and organisations across Scotland. Dating back to 1561 and spanning 450 years of Scottish history, the new collection contains more than 10.7 million historical documents chronicling baptisms, marriages, burials and more.”

Neowin: Samsung launches electronics history animated shorts series. “Samsung, a leading smartphone manufacturer, has released the first episode of a five-part shorts series called ‘The History of the Electronics Industry that Changed the World’. The first episode, ‘Samuel Morse and the Network’ looks at the creation of the electrical telegraph and how we got from there to modern smartphones.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Mashable: Facebook’s Ray-Ban smart glasses will likely rely on your phone to work. “This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the company’s next consumer product will be its Ray-Ban smart glasses. But details for the upcoming device have been extremely limited — until now.”

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Hongkiat: How to Properly Backup And Restore Your iPhone Data. “There are two ways to backup your iPhone’s data and depending on your phone’s used storage and method, the entire process can take just one minute or up to an hour. The most convenient method is backing up your data to iCloud, since you can do it anywhere and you won’t be tethered to your laptop or desktop. And as I just mentioned, the second method is through your computer.”

How-To Geek: The 6 Best Lightweight Linux Distros. “If your Windows or Mac computer is old and struggling to keep up, installing Linux can give it a fresh lease of life. Lightweight Linux distributions are designed with speed and efficiency in mind, making old computers usable again.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

From Folha de São Paulo and translated from Portuguese: Fire hits Cinemateca Brasileira warehouse in western São Paulo. “A fire hits a warehouse at the Cinemateca Brasileira, in the west side of São Paulo, this Thursday night (29). According to the Bombeor Corps, six vehicles were sent to Rua Othão, 290, in Vila Leopoldina. There is no victim information.” Cinemateca Brasileira is an institution tasked with preserving Brazil’s audiovisual archives. It’s another devastating blow to Brazil’s cultural heritage collections after 2018’s fire at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro.

TechRadar: Google is build two more whopping submarine internet cables. “Google has announced it is building a further two undersea internet cable systems to boost network capacity between the Middle East, southern Europe and Asia.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

New York Times: Why Turkey’s Regulators Became Such a Problem for Google. “The tension between Turkey and Google reflects how growing animosity toward Silicon Valley giants is popping up even in places, like Turkey, with little history of antitrust enforcement against the industry. The efforts threaten to upend conditions — an open global internet and light-touch government regulation — that have helped fuel the growth of those companies in the past two decades. In their place could be a checkerboard of laws and regulations, where the available products and services depend on where a person logs on.”

Search Engine Land: Google passes on 2% “Regulatory Operating Cost” for ads served in India and Italy. “Beginning on October 1, 2021, Google will include a 2% ‘Regulatory Operating Cost’ surcharge to advertisers’ invoices for ads served in India and Italy, according to an email sent to Google advertisers on Tuesday. The surcharge applies to ads purchased through Google Ads and for YouTube placements purchased on a reservation basis.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

University of Arkansas: Study Explains Lax Oversight in Facebook Ads During 2016 Election. “U of A English professor Adam Pope and his colleague at San Jose State University examined lax oversight of advertising on Facebook during the 2016 political campaign and found a systematic bias toward ad buyers, specifically a Russian internet troll farm that sought to sow discord within the U.S. political system.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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July 30, 2021 at 11:43PM
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African Diaspora Music, Jack White, Women at Yale, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, July 30, 2021

African Diaspora Music, Jack White, Women at Yale, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, July 30, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

OperaWire: African Diaspora Music Project Seeks to Diversify Arts Programming. “In order to facilitate research, performance, and appreciation of African Diaspora music, Dr. Louise Toppin has launched the African Diaspora Music Project, an online database which currently offers 4,000 songs…. The growing database is designed to help companies and artistic administrators with diversifying their repertoire of works, providing access to scores, recordings, and research materials.”

Rolling Stone: Jack White Launches ‘Art & Design’ Website to Showcase Non-Music Endeavors. “Jack White Art & Design, a multimedia website that went live Wednesday, serves as a catalog of White’s two decades of work in other artistic fields, many of which has never been seen by the public but are featured on the new site.”

Yale University Library: We Were Always Here: Celebrating All Women at Yale. “This online exhibition presents a chronology of the presence of women at Yale by honoring those—named and unnamed, seen and unseen—whose heroic efforts have contributed to and enriched the university.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

TechCrunch: Discord rolls out threads, side conversations that auto-archive . “After announcing that threads were on the way earlier this year and teasing the feature on Twitter, Discord is now introducing the long-requested way to make conversations in bustling servers more comprehensible.”

USEFUL STUFF

Lifehacker: How to Stop Videos From Autoplaying All Over the Internet. “Universally speaking, autoplay videos are annoying. On social media, they can suck you in, and the next thing you know, you’ve spent an hour scrolling through videos. On websites, they get in the way, following you around the page and covering up the text of an article. Thankfully, there are ways to disable autoplaying videos everywhere.”

Make Tech Easier: The Differences Between Deep Web and Dark Web: What You Need to Know. “If Aquaman has taught us anything, it’s that there is more going on under the surface than we realize. To continue this nautical theme, there are many similarities between the Internet and the oceans. They both have surface, deep, and dark web layers. These layers are unexplored for the most part. We will take a look at the deep web and dark web in this guide and show you the differences between the deep web and dark web.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Business Insider: Steak-umm just schooled the internet on misinformation. Facebook, Twitter, and Google should take notes.. “The Pennsylvania-based brand on Thursday posted a ‘beefy thread’ on Twitter about ‘societal distrust in experts and institutions, the rise of misinformation, cultural polarization, and how to work toward some semblance of mutually agreed upon information before we splinter into irreconcilable realities.'” The Steak-umm Twitter account is one of the most interesting aspects of Twitter culture and I hope history gives it the attention it deserves.

Google Blog: Incarcerated people learn to code: How one community organizer is changing lives. “When asked to speak to a room full of incarcerated individuals about becoming developers, Danny Thompson didn’t bat an eye. Danny is an experienced software engineer and community organizer for Google Developer Groups Memphis. But for the first ten years of his professional career, he worked in a gas station frying chicken. If anyone knows how to beat the odds and choose a different path in life, it’s him.”

CNET: Olympic athletes are using TikTok to give a behind-the-scenes look at the Games. “The Olympics are in full swing, and though there’s a variety of ways to watch the Games in Tokyo, there’s one place where you’ll catch some epic behind-the-scenes clips from athletes: TikTok. Many Olympians have been using TikTok to share a peek at the Olympic Village, to the enjoyment of millions of viewers.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Washington Post: China built the world’s largest facial recognition system. Now, it’s getting camera-shy.. “Guo Bing, a law professor in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, liked the zoo enough to purchase an annual pass. But he didn’t like it nearly enough to let the zoo take a high-resolution scan of his face. In what judges called the first case of its kind in China, Guo sued the zoo — and won.”

Meduza: Moscow court fines Google for refusing to localize Russian users’ data. “A Russian justice of the peace has fined Google LLC three million rubles ($40,950) for refusing to localize Russian users’ data on the territory of the Russian Federation. The magistrate court department No. 422 of Moscow’s Tagansky District Court handed down the fine to the tech giant on Thursday, July 29.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

National Institutes of Health: NIH unveils new online tool to improve Alzheimer’s clinical trials recruitment. “Unveiled at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC), Outreach Pro enables those involved with leading clinical research to create and customize participant recruitment communications such as websites, handouts, videos, and social media posts.” Good morning, Internet…

July 30, 2021 at 05:37PM
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Thursday, July 29, 2021

Teaching Early Math, Private Language Translator, WWI Records, More: Thursday Evening ResearchBuzz, July 29, 2021

Teaching Early Math, Private Language Translator, WWI Records, More: Thursday Evening ResearchBuzz, July 29, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

New-to-me, from University of Illinois: UIC websites offer early science and math resources for teachers of young children. “The Early Math Counts website, which began in 2012 with grants from the CME Group Foundation, is a suite of free-access online resources focusing on early math for child care teachers. The site is frequented by thousands of monthly users.”

BetaNews: Startpage launches its privacy-centric Google Translate alternative, Private Language Translator . “Private Language Translator serves as a direct competitor to Google Translate, making it easy to translate between over one hundred languages. Whether you’re looking to translate a single word, or an entire sentence, the translation tool can automatically detect 109 languages, but it is also possible to manually select one if you prefer.” Note that the tool only translates text strings – it does not yet translate entire pages.

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Fold3: New World War I Records Added!. “We’ve added a new collection of WWI records to our archives! The U.S. WWI Burial Cards document the death and burial of over 78,000 American soldiers in WWI.”

9to5 Google: Olympic athletes in 3D are the latest AR objects available in Google Search; here’s who you can see.”Following an announcement at Google I/O earlier this year, the collection of 3D objects available in Search is expanding. Available now, a bunch of athletes from the Olympics can now be viewed in 3D through Search, and Google is even advertising them in Discover.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

CNET: Uber will offer free Rosetta Stone to ride-hail and delivery drivers . “The drivers will have free access to all 24 languages Rosetta Stone offers, directly from the Uber Driver app. The partnership will be available to drivers and delivery people who have achieved gold, platinum or diamond status through the Uber Pro program in more than three dozen countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, the UK and US. Uber also worked with Rosetta Stone to develop some language education focused on interactions drivers often have with their riders.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Wall Street Journal: Senate Bill Aims to Create National Database of Restrictive Property Covenants . “The bill would allocate $50 million over 10 years to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which would provide grants of varying sizes to virtually any kind of higher-learning institution that committed to join with a local jurisdiction to analyze local property records from 1850 to 1988 for the purpose of identifying restrictive language in and digitize historic deeds and other property records. Institutions could use the grants for an array of purposes, including the procurement or development of digital tools to identify racial covenants in digitized property deeds or other records, according to a draft of the bill text viewed by The Wall Street Journal.”

ERR (Estonia): Hacker downloads close to 300,000 personal ID photos. “A hacker was able to obtain over 280,000 personal identity photos following an attack on the state information system last Friday. The suspect is reportedly a resident of Tallinn.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Slashgear: BeachBot uses AI to rid beaches of cigarette butts. “BeachBot inventors Edwin Bos and Martijn Lukaart of TechTics got fed up with the worrying number of cigarette butts on Scheveningen Beach in Holland. The solution? Create a robot that looks like a moon rover and give it arms to pick up those nasty butts. The result is BeachBot or BB, an adorable contraption with balloon tires and a green attitude.” Good evening, Internet…

July 30, 2021 at 05:35AM
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Essex Village History, Printed Electronics Research, Military Spouse Employment, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 29, 2021

Essex Village History, Printed Electronics Research, Military Spouse Employment, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 29, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

Saffron Walden Reporter: Essex village celebrates 1,000 years of memories with new archive. “St Botolph’s Church in Hadstock was consecrated 1,001 years ago, with celebrations marking the milestone throughout 2020 and 2021. Hadstock’s online archive has been launched at the end of the celebrations as a record of 1,000 years in the life of an Essex village.” Read the article and see all everything they did for the archive.

BusinessWire: Optomec Launches Library for Customer Publications on Printed Metal and Electronics (PRESS RELEASE). “Optomec Inc., a manufacturer of industrial 3D Additive Manufacturing machines, announced today that it has created an online search tool for researchers seeking published work in the areas of Printed Electronics and 3D Printed Metals. The new tool, called Additive Research Hub, catalogs scores of research papers written and published by Optomec machine users worldwide and allows researchers to find relevant papers through a keyword search tool. Optomec users have published more than 3500 academic papers, half of which were published in just the last 4 years.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Veterans Administration: Bridge My Return opens to spouses, caregivers. “Bridge My Return (BMR) is now open to military and Veteran spouses and caregivers to help them find meaningful employment. Military spouses often make personal career sacrifices to follow their service member’s military career. These may include moves every 2-3 years, postings to remote duty stations with limited career opportunities, or multiple deployments of their service member, effectively leaving them as single parents.”

TechCrunch: TikTok expands LIVE platform with new features, including events, co-hosts, Q&As and more. “TikTok announced this morning it’s expanding its TikTok LIVE platform, which currently allows creators to livestream to fans while responding to viewer comments and questions and accept virtual gifts. Now, the LIVE experience will include a number of new features for creators to make it more competitive with platforms like Instagram Live, including the ability to go live with others, host Q&As, use moderators and improved keyword filters, and more.”

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NPR: Olympians Are Dominating TikTok. Here’s How To Follow Along. “Hashtags like #olympictiktok, #tokyo2020 and #tokyoolympics are filled with videos from Olympians chronically their experiences in Tokyo (cardboard beds play a starring role), as well as from fans shipping their national team and favorite athletes from the comfort of home. Here are just a few of our favorite athletes to follow.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

The Verge: How A Teen Punk Led A Movement For Disabled People Online. “When Tyler Trewhella opened Tumblr in 2014 and posted a photo of themself outside a diner, they had no idea that image would become their legacy. The photo shows them with cane in hand and cigarette in mouth, clad in boots, a denim jacket with pins, and a hat with earflaps. A small banner across the picture was originally going to say ‘diner punk,’ but they decided at the last second to change it to ‘cripple punk.’ Tongue in cheek, they captioned the post, ‘i’m starting a movement.'”

MIT Technology Review: She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.. “Her story reveals that it is really pure luck that we now know so much about how Facebook enables election interference globally. [Sophie] Zhang was not just the only person fighting an entire swath of political manipulation, it also wasn’t her job. She had discovered the problem because of a unique confluence of skills and passion, then taken it upon herself, driven by an extraordinary sense of moral responsibility. To regulators around the world considering how to rein in the company, this should be a wakeup call.”

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Texas State Library and Archives Commission Announces $3.75 Million “Texans Need Strong Libraries” Initiative. “The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) is pleased to announce the Texans Need Strong Libraries initiative. This $3,750,000 appropriation from the 87th Regular Texas Legislature was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott. These funds will be used to support the development of quality library services across Texas, with special attention to job seeker initiatives, digital inclusion, affordable e-resources and increased digital access to primary historical sources.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

University of California Merced: Computer Science and Engineering Professor, Students Improve Database Query Results with NSF Grant. “Every time you surf the web, check your credit card balance, or even sign up for a class at UC Merced, you’re using a relational database. Relational databases are basically the back end of operating software, aggregating information and culling results based on your search or query. Improving the speed of these results, known as query optimization, is the focus of computer science and engineering Professor Florin Rusu and his third-year graduate students Yesdaulet Izenov and Asoke Datta.”

New York University: Machine Learning for Cardiovascular Disease Improves When Social, Environmental Factors Are Included. “Machine learning can accurately predict cardiovascular disease and guide treatment—but models that incorporate social determinants of health better capture risk and outcomes for diverse groups.” Good afternoon, Internet…

July 29, 2021 at 11:53PM
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Africa Buildings, Renter Assistance, Crow Tribe Photography, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, July 29, 2021

Africa Buildings, Renter Assistance, Crow Tribe Photography, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, July 29, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

Google Blog: Using AI to map Africa’s buildings. “Google’s Open Buildings is a new open access dataset containing the locations and geometry of buildings across most of Africa. From Lagos’ Makoko settlement to Dodoma’s refugee camps, millions of previously invisible buildings have popped up in our dataset. This improved building data helps refine the understanding of where people and communities live, providing actionable information for state and non-state actors looking to provide services from sanitation to education and vaccination.”

Consumer Finance Protection Bureau: CFPB Releases Online Tool to Help Renters and Landlords Access Federal Assistance. “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today released an online tool to help renters and landlords impacted by the pandemic easily find and apply for payment assistance for rent, utilities and other expenses. The Rental Assistance Finder, available at http://www.consumerfinance.gov/renthelp, connects renters and landlords with the state and local programs that are distributing billions of dollars in federal assistance nationwide to help renters stay housed during the pandemic.”

Mississippi State University: Digitized photos from MSU Libraries’ Holder Collection unveil beauty of Montana’s Crow Indian tribe. “The photographic beauty of both the natural and built environments of Montana’s Crow Indian tribe is now easily accessible to academic researchers and U.S. history enthusiasts through Mississippi State University Libraries’ digital collections.” Not a huge collection, but good photography.

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

The Verge: ‘Good night’ or ‘bedtime’, Alexa routines now support multiple phrases. “Alexa routines can now be triggered using multiple custom phrases making it easier for everyone in a household to initiate smart home automations without having to remember the exact wording.”

The Register: Google updates timeline for unpopular Privacy Sandbox, which will kill third-party cookies in Chrome by 2023 . “The new timeline has split the bundle of technologies in the Privacy Sandbox into five phases: discussion, testing, implementation in Chrome (called ‘Ready for adoption’), Transition State 1 during which Chrome will ‘monitor adoption and feedback’ and then the next stage that involves winding down support for third-party cookies over a three-month period finishing ‘late 2023.'”

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CNN: Olympics spoilers are basically inevitable in 2021 — but there are still some ways to avoid them. “After all, Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of US Eastern Time, meaning American viewers who aren’t tuning into live streams are seeing some events on a delay. So how does any smartphone user avoid spoilers without going off the grid? It’s not easy. But here are some ways you can try to be somewhat surprised when you tune in at primetime.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Toronto Star: Local Indigenous archives and language revitalization underway at KFPL. “An initiative to create and digitize an archive of local Indigenous history is in full steam at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library. Danycka Pereault, an Indigenous woman from the Kingston area has recently joined the team responsible for the work thanks to a grant from Young Canada Works and going towards the StoryMe project.”

Mother Jones: New Report Shows How Trump Keeps Buying Facebook Ads. “In partnership with Media Matters, the liberal media watchdog, the new Real Oversight Board report found that even though Trump has been banned from Facebook until 2023, his PAC has run at least 251 ads on the platform just since June, with Facebook earning more than $15,000 in revenue from the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee. While many of these Trump posts include content labels applied by Facebook designed to fight disinformation, earlier Media Matters analysis has found that posts with labels are interacted with 2.6 times more than posts without them.”

Mashable: TikTok’s reality shifting trend mixes dream-like consciousness with fandoms. “TikTok users are taking fan culture to the next level by practicing a sort of meditation in an effort to ‘shift realities’ to inhabit the fictional universe of their choosing. It’s sort of like a more real form of daydreaming.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

New York Times: States say they will appeal the dismissal of their Facebook antitrust suit.. “More than 40 state attorneys general on Wednesday said they planned to appeal the dismissal of their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, setting up a protracted legal fight to rein in the power of the Silicon Valley giant.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Fermilab: Scientific publishing organizations and national laboratories partner on transgender-inclusive name-change process for published papers. “All 17 U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals and other organizations in scientific publishing announced today the beginning of a partnership to support name change requests from researchers on past published papers. Previously, individual researchers shouldered the burden, administratively and emotionally, of initiating name-change requests with each publisher of their past papers…. This partnership streamlines these previously ad hoc processes and offers an official validation mechanism to all involved by enabling researchers to ask their respective institutions to pursue name changes on their behalf directly with the publishers and journals.”

Medium: Finally, could Google’s chickens be coming home to roost?. “The disappearance, on the flimsiest of pretexts, of Google Reader in March 2013, a product that had a significant user base in probably the most sophisticated segment, marked a turning point for many people, who realized that the company’s products were simply not reliable. Search with Google? No problem. Investing time and effort in using any Google product that requires you to put your information in it? A big mistake, because the company, whatever it says, can and will remove it at any time, for whatever reason. Simply put, Google cannot be trusted.” I still cannot fling myself into Google Keep like I can with other tools, because I do worry that Google will cut it off at any time. I’m thinking about Swipebucket. Good morning, Internet…

July 29, 2021 at 05:29PM
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Kansas Military Veterans, Vivaldi, Google, More: Wednesday Evening ResearchBuzz, July 28, 2021

Kansas Military Veterans, Vivaldi, Google, More: Wednesday Evening ResearchBuzz, July 28, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

University of Kansas: Dole Institute Accepting Submissions For Newly Announced Kansas Veterans Virtual Memory Wall . “The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas is calling on veterans and their families to submit personal stories and photos of service men and women who have ties to Kansas. This comes as part of a larger announcement that the Dole Institute will permanently install a large digital interactive display at the institute, as well as maintain a searchable online database, that pays tribute to Kansas veterans from World War II to present day.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

PCWorld: Vivaldi 4.1 browser debuts macros, accordion tabs. “Vivaldi 4.1 offers something that’s a rarity in the world of browsers: a new macro system that complements the niche browser’s implementation of new ‘accordion tabs,’ too. Both features offer some intriguing new ways to surf the web.”

CNBC: Google advertising revenue rises 69% from last year. “Total Google ad revenue increased to $50.44 billion, up 69% from the year-ago quarter, which was hurt by the onset of the Covid pandemic. Retail was by far the largest contributor to the company’s ad growth, said Google’s chief business officer Philipp Schindler on the earnings call Tuesday.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Ubergizmo: An iPhone 5s Won A Photography Award In 2021. “What’s interesting is that out of the 54 winning photos, only seven of those photos were actually taken by an iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 Pro Max, meaning that 47 of the other photos were taken by older iPhones. This includes devices like the iPhone X, iPhone XR, and the iPhone 7, just to name a few.” I rock an iPhone 6s Plus so this makes me happy.

The Register: UK’s National Museum of Computing asks tunesmiths to recreate bleeps, bloops, and parps of retro game music. “The UK’s National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is running a competition aimed at recreating the bleeps, whistles, and flatulent squawks of video game music from years gone by. It’s all in honour of the 40th anniversary of the BBC Micro, which, if memory serves, was not really a ball of fire in the sound department when put up against the Commodore 64 Sound Interface Device (SID) chip.”

Tubefilter: YouTube Music’s Indie Artist Development Initiative, The ‘Foundry’, Unveils Largest Class To Date. “YouTube Music has announced the largest global class to date for its Foundry — a five-year-old independent artists development initiative that underwent a revamp in 2019 to furnish marketing and promotional support over a longer period of time.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Techdirt: Naturopath Sues Twitter After It Bans Her Account For Spreading Medical Misinformation . “This lawsuit [PDF], however, has an actual lawyer behind it. And by actual lawyer, I mean a lawyer whose representation may be less useful than no representation at all. The lawyer helping the plaintiff bring this constitutional violation lawsuit against Twitter is David Yerushalmi, perhaps best know for being a bit bigoted himself.”

The Conversation: ‘Anorexia coach’: sexual predators online are targeting teens wanting to lose weight. Platforms are looking the other way. “My ongoing research, coupled with other media reports, indicates an opportunity for anacoaches has risen in the past few years. My analysis showed that on Twitter alone there are about 300 unique requests for anacoaches around the world daily. Anacoaches operate on numerous channels, including established social platforms such as Twitter, TikTok, Tumblr, and Kik. Despite this, these platforms haven’t addressed the problem.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Mashable: Jurors could use VR to visit crime scenes, and help them reach a verdict. “In a paper published this May, researchers from the University of South Australia investigated whether the ability to inspect crime scenes in virtual reality could help jurors make decisions in courtroom trials. Measuring the impact of viewing the same crime scene in either VR or a photographic slideshow, they found that virtual reality led participants to a different, more consistent verdict than one based only on photos.”

Techdirt: Techdirt Is Now Entirely Without Any Google Ads Or Tracking Code. “Here’s the unfortunate secret underpinning nearly all of the internet advertising space: there are hundreds, if not thousands, of companies which will purport to put ads on your website. And all of them will promise ‘quality’ ads and better rates. But the unfortunate reality is that they’re all just backstopped by Google, and the ads are all the same crappy ads in the end.” That’s why ResearchBuzz doesn’t have any ads. Good evening, Internet…

July 29, 2021 at 05:21AM
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Italy Cultural Heritage, January 6, Internet Archive, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 28, 2021

Italy Cultural Heritage, January 6, Internet Archive, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 28, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

Google Blog: Italy’s capital of culture: Parma. “Beyond being the capital of iconic food such as Parmigiano and Prosciutto, Parma is a city of incredible cultural heritage that gained the prestigious title of ‘Italian Capital of Culture for the year 2020’ but had to put a year-long calendar of events on hold due to the pandemic. Eighteen months later, the city is ready to celebrate its cultural heritage with the world on Google Arts & Culture.”

ProPublica: Video Evidence Shown in the Capitol Insurrection Criminal Cases . “ProPublica and a coalition of 15 other news organizations including The Washington Post, The Associated Press, CBS and NBC have been suing for access to the video exhibits shown in the criminal cases against the accused Jan. 6 rioters. The coalition has been arguing for access before a series of federal judges in the District of Columbia, and the Department of Justice has been sending us new videos as we win our applications. Below we’ve organized these videos by case, and they are shown exactly as given to us by the DOJ. We’ll add more videos as we get them.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Internet Archive Blog: Internet Archive Joins IDS Project for Interlibrary Loan. “The Internet Archive is pleased to announce it has joined the The Information Delivery Services (IDS) Project, a mutually supportive resource-sharing cooperative whose 120 members include public and private academic libraries from across the country. As a member of the IDS Project, the Internet Archive expands its ability to support libraries and library patrons by providing access to two million monographs and three thousand periodicals in its physical collections available for non-returnable interlibrary loan (ILL) fulfillment. ”

CNET: Twitter tests new banner to show when accounts are suspended or locked . “Before now, if your Twitter was suspended or locked you’d receive an email. But you might not check it before sending a tweet. Now, Twitter doesn’t leave any room for guessing what’s wrong with your account thanks to the new banner.”

BetaNews: Microsoft releases KB5005392 and KB5005394 emergency patches for Windows printer and scanner problems. “There have been a spate of problems with printing in Windows recently, including issues introduced by updates from Microsoft. The most recent problems came for people who installed updates released this Patch Tuesday. Some found they were unable to print or scan after installing the updates, and now Microsoft has released a couple of out-of-band patches — KB5005394 for Windows 10 and KB5005392 for Windows 7.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Daily Sabah: Turkey reviews Germany’s model for social media regulation. “Turkey is analyzing Germany’s model for its social media regulation that is expected to be submitted to Parliament by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in October, Hürriyet daily reported on Monday.”

PC Gamer: Tencent is now using facial recognition to stop children in China from gaming all night. “Late-night gaming sessions for Chinese children are going to be much harder now that Tencent, China’s largest tech company, is using facial recognition to stop kids from gaming after bedtime.”

TechCrunch: Citizen’s crime livestreams are no substitute for local journalism. “The neighborhood crime-watch app Citizen is covertly hiring journalists to livestream on the app at crime scenes for $25 per hour through third-party websites. I’m tired.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Smashing Magazine: Making A Strong Case For Accessibility. “Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences in Todd’s career in web development and design. The case for accessibility is something we as people who create and build things for the web should be implementing and advocating for from the inception of a project to the release or handoff and beyond.”

The Conversation: Low- and middle-income countries lack access to big data analysis – here’s how to fill the gap . “We are two mathematicians at the University of Colorado Boulder and are part of a project called the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis that is working to develop statistical infrastructure across the world. The goal of the program is to help build data science infrastructure in developing nations. In 10 countries and counting, we have started ‘stat labs’ – academic centers that train young statisticians to collaborate on important local statistics projects.” Good afternoon, Internet…

July 28, 2021 at 11:33PM
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