Bears Ears National Monument, Google AR, UK Royal Navy, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, December 2, 2021

Bears Ears National Monument, Google AR, UK Royal Navy, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, December 2, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

Bureau of Land Management: Explore Bears Ears National Monument With 3D Guided Tours Of The Mule Canyon Village And House On Fire. “In partnership with the Bureau of Land Management, the non-profit CyArk has produced a 3D guided tour of two prominent locations in Bears Ears National Monument. This virtual visit is an opportunity to experience locations in Bears Ears National Monument, even if you can’t go there in person. You can listen to BLM employees, explore the site using your mouse or curser, and learn more about the people who build these prehistoric structures.”

9to5 Google: Google Search adds 3D monuments, including Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Parthenon, & Tokyo Skytree. “Google started showing 3D animals in Search last year but has since expanded to a whole host of AR objects covering space, science, and athletes. The latest expansion sees Google Search add 3D monuments.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Fold3: New UK Royal Navy Records Added! . “We have added a new UK collection of Royal Navy Officer Patrol Service Cards to our archives. These cards are dated 1904-1970 and can provide insights for those who served in the Royal Navy Patrol Service (RNPS). These records were created from microfilm held at The National Archives, with the original paper records located at the Imperial War Museum.”

The Verge: Google announces grab bag of new Android features for the end of 2021. “Google has a bevy of new features coming soon to Android, including new widgets for YouTube Music, Google Play Books, and Google Photos; new Android Auto features; and updates for Google Assistant and Google Photos.”

Reuters: Ex-Google scientist Gebru opens AI institute year after tumultuous exit. “Timnit Gebru, the computer scientist whose disputed exit from Google’s artificial intelligence research team prompted debate across the tech industry about diversity and censorship, said on Thursday she has launched a small lab to continue her work freely.”

Fierce Healthcare: Google rolls out new search tools for health information on Medicare services, languages spoken by providers. “Google is introducing new search features to make finding health information more accessible. Announced Thursday in a blog post by Hema Budaraju, director of Google Search’s social impact division, the additions make it easier for patients to seek out doctors near them that fulfill their individual needs, addressing questions like whether a provider accepts Medicare or what languages that provider speaks.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

ProPublica: How Steve Bannon Has Exploited Google Ads to Monetize Extremism. “Almost a year ago, Google took a major step to ensure that its ubiquitous online ad network didn’t put money in the pocket of Steve Bannon, the indicted former adviser to Donald Trump. The company kicked Bannon off YouTube, which Google owns, after he called for the beheading of Anthony Fauci and urged Trump supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6 to try to overturn the presidential election results. Google also confirmed to ProPublica that it has at times blocked ads from appearing on Bannon’s War Room website alongside individual articles that violate Google’s rules. But Bannon found a loophole in Google’s policies that let him keep earning ad money on his site’s homepage.”

Gobbler Country: UVA’s Scott Stadium Name Changes on Google Maps. “I don’t know how the Google Maps information is maintained or updated. The Google Maps entry for Lane Stadium North has been changed back to the previous name of Scott Stadium and the latest photos reverted to something less VT-centric. I don’t know when it happened, but for a few short hours yesterday it read as what you see above, and I was able to collect the screen shots before the Google Maps information was changed back.” Lane Stadium is apparently the name of the Virginia Tech football stadium; this is a sports prank I’m not fully-equipped to appreciate.

SECURITY & LEGAL

WRAL: Police use-of-force, discipline database to be kept secret under new law. “Not only are local governments and others forbidden from cataloguing critical incidents publicly, they also can’t create a database of what the budget refers to as ‘disciplinary actions taken against law enforcement officers,’ which may not always lead to certification issues.”

Threatpost: Researchers Flag 300K Banking Trojan Infections from Google Play in 4 Months. “Overcoming Google Play app restrictions, attackers have successfully racked up more than 300,000 banking trojan installations over just the past four months in the official Android app marketplace.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Daily Tar Heel: UNC-based researchers developing tool to teach Cherokee language. “The Cherokee language is endangered. Very few native speakers remain in America — much less in North Carolina. To help produce more fluent Cherokee speakers, a group of professors and students are working to create a software program that will translate English materials to Cherokee.”

Search Engine Journal: Google’s New Pathways AI Is Closer to Mammalian Brain. “Google announced a new AI architecture that powerfully expands Google’s AI computing ability in a profound way. The new AI architecture is is a single model that can be trained to do millions of things, which Google says is closer to a mammalian brain.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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December 2, 2021 at 11:42PM
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Italian Opera, National Library of New Zealand, Google, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 29, 2021

Italian Opera, National Library of New Zealand, Google, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 29, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

MarketScreener: Bertelsmann : Milan’s Ricordi Archive Makes Historic Magazine Collection Available Online (PRESS RELEASE). “In the course of digitizing thousands of original documents on Italian opera history, the Ricordi Archive, which belongs to Bertelsmann, is now making all of Casa Ricordi’s music and cultural magazines available online. The magazines tell the dazzling story of Milan’s cultural scene in the 19th and 20th centuries, which was strongly influenced by the Casa Ricordi publishing house over a period of some 120 years.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Stuff New Zealand: National Library hits pause on Internet Archive deal days before deadline. “The National Library has halted plans to export 600,000 books to an overseas-based online archive after sustained criticism from authors, publishers, copyright holders and the National Party.”

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Drops The Deadline For Mobile-First Indexing. “On Friday, Google’s John Mueller announced Google is doing away with the deadline for sites to switch over to mobile-first indexing. Some sites just can’t move over yet and Google won’t force them by giving them a deadline that it will continue to push off.”

CNET: Google Play unveils its list of top apps and games for 2021. “Google Play announced the winners of its Best of 2021 list on Monday, with a breakdown of its best apps and games for tablets, Wear OS and Google TV.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

New York Times: Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars. “Journalists and academics are developing a new language for truth. The results are not always clearer.”

Law Society Gazette: Official judgment portal set to go live. “Nearly 50,000 court judgments have been set up to be posted online in the first phase of the government’s plan to create a cutting-edge free repository of legal information, the Gazette can reveal. The service, hosted by the National Archives, will go live next April when the Ministry of Justice’s contract with the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) expires.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Polygon: Roblox sues banned ‘cybermob leader’ for terrorizing the platform, its developers. “The Roblox Corporation is suing controversial Roblox content creator Benjamin Robert Simon, better known online as Ruben Sim, for leading a ‘cybermob’ that they say terrorizes the Roblox platform and its developers. Roblox lawyers filed the lawsuit Tuesday in a California court, alleging that Simon ‘commits and encourages unlawful acts designed to injure Roblox and its users.'”

Reuters: Google makes pledges on browser cookies to appease UK regulator. “Google has pledged more restrictions on its use of data from its Chrome browser to address concerns raised by Britain’s competition regulator about its plan to ban third-party cookies that advertisers use to track consumers.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

TechRadar: Half of top websites fail to meet Google usability standards. “Many of the world’s top websites do not provide the ideal user experience (UX), both on desktop and mobile platforms, at least not by Google’s standards, a new report from Searchmetrics has found The company recently analyzed the top 100 most visible websites on Google.com and found that by Google’s benchmarks, 50% don’t deliver a good desktop page experience, while 44% fail to do the same on the mobile platform.”

Arizona State University: ASU Biocollections grant fuels digitization of millions of specimen records. “Arizona State University knows a thing or two about natural history. The ASU Natural History Collections are composed of nine different collections — ranking among the largest collections of Sonoran desert biota in the world. Thousands of specimens are tucked into trays, drawers and cupboards. And, while there will always be a need for accumulating and storing natural history specimens, digital access represents an increasingly urgent need in the world of research, education and innovation.” Good evening, Internet…

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November 30, 2021 at 04:40AM
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World Atlas of Languages, Ohio Law Enforcement, Star Wars, More: Monday ResearchBuzz, November 29, 2021

World Atlas of Languages, Ohio Law Enforcement, Star Wars, More: Monday ResearchBuzz, November 29, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

UNESCO: UNESCO launches the World Atlas of Languages to celebrate and protect linguistic diversity. “The World Atlas of Languages presents basic data on the existing 8,324 languages spoken or signed in the world, in use and not in use, as well as more detailed data documenting how 1,863 languages are used in various domains at the national level, enabling the construction of linguistic country profiles for over 80 countries. The platform featuring this rich dataset will open to the general public in February 2022.”

The Blade: Ohio database focuses on use-of-force cases. “The public can now access Ohio’s online database listing incidents of use-of-force by law enforcement in the state, the Office of Criminal Justice Services announced. Data can be broken down into a variety of categories including law enforcement agency, county, whether the person was armed/believed to be armed with a weapon, injury data and more.”

New-to-me, from San Francisco Chronicle: The world’s largest galaxy of ‘Star Wars’ relics is in a Petaluma museum. Here’s what’s inside.. “Since the closure, [Steve] Sansweet and a small team have busied themselves cleaning and reorganizing the collection of more than 300,000 items — only about 1% of which are on display at any given time. There is also now an online museum with photos and videos to help hungry fans connect with the collection, a pandemic-induced necessity.”

The Pitch Kansas City: Missouri Bicentennial projects allow one to peruse Missouri’s history like never before. “At the base of it all is the SHSMO [State Historical Society of Missouri] Digital Collection, which has been expanded and made easier to access than ever before, granting citizens access to thousands of maps, manuscripts, correspondences, media, and archives from throughout the state’s 200-year history.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Elite Daily: Snapchat’s Harry Potter Filter Lets You Rep Your Hogwarts House By Saying Its Name. “Potterheads, get ready to raise your wands, because Snapchat has a new voice lens that’ll make you feel like you’ve been transported to Hogwarts. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, and the new game show Hogwarts Tournament of Houses, Snapchat has made it possible to place yourself in your augmented reality (AR) Hogwarts house.”

CNBC: Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal will replace Jack Dorsey as CEO. “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief of the social media company, effective immediately. Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief technology officer, will take over the helm, the company said Monday. Shares of Twitter were down about half a percent before noon on Monday.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Marketplace: One of the world’s largest economic databases turns 30. “It’s been 30 years since the start of the Federal Reserve Economic Data, or FRED, an online database within the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The site contains more than 800,000 data series from over 100 different sources, making it something of a one-stop shop for people trying to understand the economy.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Business Standard: Pak’s main citizenry database compromised: Top security agency to Par panel. “Pakistan’s main citizenry database has been compromised, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) informed a Parliament panel on Thursday, adding that the breach so far has been used to only issue illegal mobile SIM cards.”

Irish Times: Google Ireland agrees €345m tax settlement with Revenue. “Tech giant Google Ireland agreed a €218 million tax settlement with Revenue this year, according to documents just filed. This formed part of its total corporate tax bill of €622 million, which is detailed in its 2020 financial accounts. Google Ireland also paid €127.2 million in interest to Revenue, the company documents show, bringing the full settlement to €345.2 million.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Analytics India: Behind Bot-in-a-Box by Google: It’s No-Code Conversational AI Tool. “Google utilized its existing AI tool – Google Cloud Contact Center AI’s Dialogflow to create Bot-in-a-Box within Business Messages. It supports ‘Custom Intents’ that allows the chatbot to understand multiple ways in which similar questions are asked and respond accurately using ML capabilities. This new tool in Google’s Business Messages allows organizations to deploy it on their own business channels and even on Google Search and Google Maps. The new no-code solution uses the existing customer FAQ document and Dialogflow’s technology to create chatbots that can understand and respond to customer questions.”

I might not have the name of this media outlet right. If I goofed it, apologies. Ap Bac Newspaper: Conference seeks to unleash potential of old photo archives at Vietnamese institute. “The Institute of Social Sciences Information (ISSI) under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) on November 25 held an international scientific conference to seek ways to unlock potential of the photo archives of the French School of the Far East (EFEO) at ISSI. ISSI Deputy Director Assoc. Prof., Dr. Le Hai Dang said the big collection of EFEO photos archived at ISSI has become a valuable heritage for researchers in studying national culture and provided evidence for the restoration of cultural and historic relics damaged by wars or natural disasters.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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November 29, 2021 at 10:43PM
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Southeast Asia Forging History, Holmes Chapel, Atari, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, November 28, 2021

Southeast Asia Forging History, Holmes Chapel, Atari, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, November 28, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

Association of Southeast Asian Nations: ASEAN launches first e-exhibition on cultural heritage digital archive portal . “‘Forging History’ brings focus to the roles of metals in transforming the ASEAN region’s history and cultures. It features 22 digitised cultural heritage treasures selected by guest curator Girard Phillip E. Bonotan with support from museums and archival institutions of the ASEAN Member States. Highlights of the e-exhibition include Buddhist manuscript cabinets from Thailand, golden crowns from Indonesia, and modern metal artworks created by Malaysian artists, among others.” You can get an overview of ASEAN and its member nations here.

Knutsford Guardian: New digital photo archive captures history of Holmes Chapel. “A PRECIOUS archive capturing the history of Holmes Chapel has been unveiled. More than 800 images are now on display in a new online photographic gallery painstakingly compiled by local history enthusiasts.”Holmes Chapel is not a church but a village.

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

NME: Atari snaps up MobyGames gaming database for £1.1million. “Atari has announced that it is acquiring a user-driven video game database, MobyGames, for £1.1million ($1.5million USD). MobyGames is a resource for gaming history fans. It provides a place to upload summaries, screenshots, box art, and information on developers and their work. The database covers many different games, from the very first games in the 1970s to upcoming releases. The database currently stores details on 300,000 unique titles.”

University of Tennessee Knoxville: Oral Histories of Gatlinburg Wildfires Soon to Be Published Online. “Over the past few years, Rising from the Ashes: The Chimney Tops 2 Wildfires Oral History Project collected around 140 audio and video interviews with individuals who experienced the devastating and tragic wildfires. This November marks the fifth anniversary of the wildfires, and the Rising from the Ashes project will soon make those interviews available on the UT Libraries website.”

USEFUL STUFF

MakeUseOf: The 6 Best Productivity Tools for Job Seekers. “We have compiled a list of six tools below to assist you in the job-seeking and application process. Some of these tools will filter the right jobs for you, while others will significantly reduce the time it takes to fill out your job applications. So, no matter what profession you’re in, give these tools a spin.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Daily Bruin: Bruin strums up focus on Indigenous punk music through band, online archive. “Kristen Martinez has always lived with a punk mindset. The doctoral student in the Department of Musicology is balancing a range of projects centered on Indigenous punk music. A descendant of the Yaqui people of Sonora, Mexico, Martinez created the Indigenous Punks Archive on Instagram with her research, and she is a vocalist for the punk band Observer Syndrome. Martinez, a lifelong lover of punk and metal, said the lack of representation for Indigenous punk artists led her to research their history further.”

New York Times: A Tech Whistle-Blower Helps Others Speak Out. “Since last year, Ms. [Ifeoma] Ozoma, 29, a former employee of Pinterest, Facebook and Google, has emerged as a central figure among tech whistle-blowers. The Yale-educated daughter of Nigerian immigrants, she has supported and mentored tech workers who needed help speaking out, pushed for more legal protections for those employees and urged tech companies and their shareholders to change their whistle-blower policies.”

The Verge: Twitter verified a fake account in the Norwegian government, but it’s not Twitter’s fault. “Twitter verified a fake account for Norway’s new Minister of Finance, but apparently, it’s not Twitter’s fault. As first reported by Norwegian tech site NRKbeta, the Prime Minister’s Office and Norway’s Security Authority (NSM) mistakenly passed along a fake account for verification.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

7News (Australia): New social media laws aimed at ending online bullying. “The Morrison government will introduce legislation this week to crack down on abuse and bullying on social media platforms. Under the laws, social media platforms will be forced to expose the identity of individuals who post defamatory or damaging material anonymously.”

Chattanooga Times Free Press: North Georgia media company sues Google and Facebook. “Times-Journal Inc., a media company that publishes several North Georgia newspapers including the Catoosa County News and Walker County Messenger, is suing Google and Facebook. The publisher claims the social media giants have violated federal antitrust and monopoly laws to an extent that ‘threatens the extinction of local newspapers across the country.'”

Reuters: UPDATE 1-Italy’s antitrust regulator fines Google, Apple over data use. “Italy’s antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet’s Google and iPhone maker Apple 10 million euros ($11.2 million) each for ‘aggressive practices’ linked to the commercial use of user data.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

United Nations: 193 countries adopt first-ever global agreement on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. “All the Member states of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted on Thursday a historic agreement that defines the common values and principles needed to ensure the healthy development of AI.”

Cycling Tips: How I Became The Internet’s Most Notorious Bike Thief. “After several aeons of diligent study and many more working at a bike shop while trying to get a job as a writer, I’d finally landed a gig at a cycling magazine for an advocacy organisation. Things were looking up. In those days my heart sometimes whispered a quiet dream to my brain, that maybe one day I’d make a mark on the world. Who knows? Melbourne’s a big city, but I had big dreams. For one edition of the (now defunct) magazine a colleague had written an article about her bike being stolen, and we needed a feature image. All the bike thieves in our stock photo archive looked a bit shit, but we had a bike, a camera, a big bolt-cutter, and a can-do attitude.”

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Paywalls Everywhere You Go? Get to the Goodies With These Two Paywall Ladder Bookmarklets

Paywalls Everywhere You Go? Get to the Goodies With These Two Paywall Ladder Bookmarklets
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On the one hand, I hate paywalls. I spend much of my day reading the news and paywalls are the bane of my existence. I want the news, not a login page. On the other hand, I love paywalls. Why? Because newsrooms have to keep the lights on and journalists need to eat. It’s good to subscribe to newspapers (I subscribe to three, much to the chagrin of my wallet) and support local journalism. That means respecting a paywall.

But no one said you couldn’t be clever.

The thing about a lot of the news behind paywalls is that it doesn’t stay behind paywalls. It gets syndicated, sometimes to paywall-free sources. Most stories, even those paywalled, have a paragraph or so of content. To find these articles elsewhere, you could easily copy a phrase and then look for it in Google News. Or you could make a couple of bookmarklets and have a one-click, instant search for different case scenarios.

In this article we’re going for the latter option: two bookmarklets that will help you get to articles you can’t access otherwise. They won’t work 100% of the time, but I think you’ll be surprised at how short some of those paywalls are.

First, A Quick Refresher

Have you heard of bookmarklets? They’re very old technology. In fact, the last time I wrote about them in a substantive article was over three years ago. They’re basically bookmarks souped-up with javascript, which lets you do things like add highlighted words to a query or paste in a phrase to an otherwise-constructed search.

The code I’m using in these bookmarklets is very much like what I was using in the 2018 article. I remain eternally grateful to Jesse Ruderman for his Squarefree bookmarklets page which allowed me to avoid digging through my two-decade-old notes for usable javascript.

Bookmarklet 1: Search Two Large News Aggregators With Paywall Ladder 1

The first bookmarklet searches two large news collections: Yahoo News and MSN News. You don’t hear much about news search engines any more because many people have moved to social media for their news consumption. Still, both these sites have a lot of content syndicated from a wide variety of sources. I’ve seen Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, and Reuters, among others.

Here’s the bookmarklet code. You will have to copy and paste it into a bookmark, as I cannot figure out how to make WordPress happy with a bookmarklet link.

Here’s how for Firefox: Press Ctrl+Shift+B to show the bookmarks toolbar. Copy the code in the block below. Right click on the bookmarks toolbar. Choose Paste. A new bookmark will appear on the toolbar but the name will look weird because Firefox is using the javascript for a name. Right click on it and choose Edit Bookmark, then change the Name field to something more readable. 

 Here’s how for Chrome: Exactly the same, only you right click and choose Edit instead of Edit Bookmark.

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("You didn%27t select any text. Enter a search phrase:", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://www.google.com/search?q=%28site%3Amsn.com %7C site%3Anews.yahoo.com%29&q=" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0

This bookmarklet will take your search input and search only those two sites. Let’s do an example. Say you come across an article on Reuters about France and booster shots. But they want you to register to read it.

No worries. Just highlight some text from the article and click on the Paywall Ladder 1 bookmarket. I think I’ll search for France said on Thursday it would make COVID-19 booster shots.

Here’s the result:

Four very precise results, and at least one (the second) an exact match. And all you had to do is highlight some text and click!

(TIP: When you’re picking out a string of text to search for, stick with the body of the article and not the headline. In my experience headlines are rewritten too often to make them a good search source.)

Sometimes, though, you might try a search for Reuters article text — for example, Portugal, which has one of the world’s highest rates of vaccination against COVID-19, and get a result like this:

You can see here a lot of articles relevant to your search terms, but not the exact article. Why not?

When you search for a paywalled article that’s been published fairly recently — in the last couple of hours, though sometimes it can be longer — you’ll sometimes find that the article is too new to have gotten to Yahoo News or MSN News; it does take some time for content to get distributed. That’s what Paywall Ladder 2 is for; to find recently published content in a much larger area.

Bookmarklet 2: Search 24 Hours’ Worth of Google With Paywall Ladder 2

The Paywall Ladder 2 bookmarklet will search Google, but only the last 24 hours’ worth of indexed content. 24 hours of indexed content on Google is still a huge amount though, so pick a good excerpt.

Here’s the bookmarklet:

javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("You didn%27t select any text. Enter a search phrase:", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=qdr:d&q=" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0

Let’s run that Portugal search again and use this bookmarklet instead of the first one:

Clearly it’s not perfect, ha! But it did find a similar story at the bottom of the page (that’s an Associated Press story). You can tweak this search a little more if it’s not finding exactly the article you’re seeking. See the Past 24 Hours setting under the search bar?

Use the pulldown menu to change that to Past hour.

Let’s take a look at the search result now:

Still no Reuters articles, but there are other articles with relevant information that you might be able to use instead. And you might surprise yourself: I tried to use the Paywall Ladder 2 bookmarklet to find the Bloomberg article mentioned in the above screenshot, and while I didn’t I found a copy of the Reuters article I was originally looking for at Gulf News. Don’t be afraid to do some experimental searching if you find clusters of articles.

Sometimes a news outlet needs a paywall to survive. There’s nothing wrong with that. If you read or use a news outlet on a regular basis, please consider a subscription or a donation — the creators out here need all the help they can get. But if you’re looking for an article as the result of a search or some other one-off, try these quick bookmarklets before you pull out your wallet. You may be able to avoid the paywall toll.

November 26, 2021 at 01:12AM
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Ireland LGBTQ Artists, WordPress, Spotify, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 25, 2021

Ireland LGBTQ Artists, WordPress, Spotify, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 25, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

Offaly Express: New LGBTA+ digital archive set up by Offaly woman. “A new digital archive which showcases and supports LGBTQ+ artists has been set up by Offaly woman Rebecca Carragher who is founder and director of Queer Arts.” Focus is on LGBTQ creators in Ireland specifically; looks like it’s still being populated.

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Journal: WordPress 5.9 Rushed “In A Dangerous Way” Is Now Delayed. “WordPress recently decided that the third major version release for 2021 will be delayed to January 25, 2022. The project had fallen significantly behind to such an extent that core contributors as recently as last week voiced concerns about the feasibility of meeting the 2021 deadline.”

Spotify: Spotify Is Testing A TikTok-Like Music Discovery Tool. “Spotify is the latest platform to incorporate the TikTok format, following successful adaptations by the likes of YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat in the form of Shorts, Reels, and Spotlight. Spotify is testing a version of the format that would ostensibly serve as a way for users to discover new music via an endless vertical scroll of music videos.”

USEFUL STUFF

CNET: If you have an iPhone, you should know about these iOS privacy features. “Once you’ve downloaded the operating system, you’ll have access to Apple’s new FaceTime features that, for the first time, let Android and PC users participate. You’ll also get iMessage improvements that make it easier to track links and photos your friends have sent. And there’s access to plenty of new privacy and security features included with iOS 15. If you’re like me — one of the billion-plus people that use an iPhone — then I’d say it’s worth learning about new privacy updates available on Apple’s latest OS as well as going ahead and changing some of your settings right away.”

MakeUseOf: How to Create a Timeline in Google Slides . “Inserting a timeline into your presentation is a great way to simplify content and better tell your brand’s story. Instead of going back and forth between your company achievements and future plans, you can offer your audience a visual representation. Before you start to create the timeline, write down the information you want to add. Make sure you are adding only important information, as it shouldn’t be too crowded with text and call outs.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Mental Floss: 20 of the Most Important Moments in Internet History. “The internet is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? Believe it or not, it’s been around in the form that we now take for granted since the mid-1980s, and more primitive versions existed for two decades before that. All of which is to say, its evolution, and its ups and downs, are full of some fascinating details, detours, and events. Check out this list of the 20 most important moments in internet history.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

NBC News: Pinterest settles shareholder lawsuit over workplace culture. “Financial details of the settlement between Pinterest, a popular social media platform for sharing images, and the shareholder, the Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island, were not shared publicly. As part of the agreement, the company is releasing former employees from nondisclosure agreements in cases of racial or gender-based discrimination.”

Route Fifty: White House Holiday Warning Identifies Options for Reporting Ransomware. “Entities experiencing any suspicious cyber activity should report incidents to either the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or the FBI, CISA Director Jen Easterly said in a White House press release highlighting a joint advisory from the agencies in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday break. ”

RESEARCH & OPINION

New York Times: Clearview AI does well in another round of facial recognition accuracy tests.. “In results announced on Monday, Clearview, which is based in New York, placed among the top 10 out of nearly 100 facial recognition vendors in a federal test intended to reveal which tools are best at finding the right face while looking through photos of millions of people. Clearview performed less well in another version of the test, which simulates using facial recognition for providing access to buildings, such as verifying that someone is an employee.”

Polygon: Assassin’s Creed Unity can’t help rebuild Notre-Dame, and that’s OK. “The damage to the cathedral was and remains extensive, but French President Emmanuel Macron immediately swore that it would be rebuilt. Following the fire, I saw more than a few articles pop up suggesting that the much-maligned 2014 video game Assassin’s Creed Unity could provide a way forward. Didn’t Ubisoft have some incredibly detailed 3D models of the cathedral lying around? Couldn’t architects, historians, and artisans make use of these boons? Well, no.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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November 26, 2021 at 01:56AM
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Code for Democracy, California Real Estate, Bing, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, November 25, 2021

Code for Democracy, California Real Estate, Bing, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, November 25, 2021
By ResearchBuzz

NEW RESOURCES

Sludge: Code for Democracy Debuts New Tool to Track Money in Politics. “Our two-person newsroom has worked with CFD’s tech & data lab over the past few months to help them develop features that will enable more campaign finance watchdogs to follow the money. With this free and open-source platform, people can design and save custom queries, create email alerts for when queries have new results, build data visualizations, download spreadsheets, and more. The results should be more investigative news stories and research reports connecting the dots between money moving and policy outcomes.”

Techwire: New Portal Provides Statewide Property Data. “Symbium, a startup working on tools to help make zoning and permitting work easier at the local government level, has launched a portal allowing anyone to look up information about properties across the state of California. Typically available via local assessor websites, real estate search engines and other such projects, the Symbium portal gives users the ability to search for a specific property, browse by area or filter by information such as assessed value, lot size or land use.” Free, to my great surprise.

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Bing Blog: Save time online with Page insights from Microsoft Bing. “For example, imagine you’re curious about Mars and space exploration, but don’t have a specific question in mind. Search “Mars mission NASA” and hover over the lightbulb icon for a promising-looking link. You’ll get a Page insights pane that helps you verify that the source is relevant to your needs, helps you get caught up to speed at a glance on top factoids you didn’t know about, and lets you jump straight to the relevant section of the page when you click ‘Read more’ for a specific question.” It’s a little sensitive — giraffe as a search gets you no additional information but giraffes does — but the information quality and presentation is impressive.

USEFUL STUFF

Make Tech Easier: How to Search Twitter Like a Pro. “Twitter is full of tweets of all kinds, including those that are helpful, controversial, and funny. If you don’t know how to search Twitter properly, it can be difficult to find a specific tweet at the right time. Read on to find out how to use Twitter’s advanced search to find old tweets.” Not the type of article that teaches you stunt-searching, but a solid, in-depth overview.

MakeUseOf: How to Apply for Skillshare Scholarships . “You’ve probably heard about Skillshare. And, you’ve probably heard that it costs money. However, in certain circumstances, you may be able to apply for a Skillshare Scholarship to help you cover the cost or completely cover the cost of your Skillshare membership. Here, we’ll take a detailed look at Skillshare Scholarships and how you can apply for one.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Boston University Today: Gobble, Gobble: Wild Turkeys Star on Student-Run Instagram Page. “You’ve seen them. Watching, waiting, looming. They have zero regard for disrupting traffic and they aren’t exactly friendly when approached. We’re talking about Boston University’s resident wild turkeys. (It is nearly Thanksgiving, after all.) And thanks to a pair of BU students, they’ve gained a bit of internet stardom.”

New York Times: What Does It Mean to ‘Yassify’ Anything?. “‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ in a full face of makeup. The first Queen Elizabeth contoured from her neck ruff up. Severus Snape with jet-black hair extensions. Sasquatch sporting a smoky eye. These are just a few of the altered images that have been shared by YassifyBot, a Twitter account that started popping up in people’s feeds this month.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Gizmodo AU: Moscow Warns Google, Apple, TikTok, and More to Set Up Offices in Russia. “The Russian government has told 13 mostly U.S.-based tech firms that they need to set up local offices in Russia by next year or maybe just get the hell out, according to Reuters.”

Search Engine Journal: Data Breach Spreads To Six Web Hosts. “The GoDaddy data breach that affected up to 1.2 million web hosts has expanded to six more web hosts serving customers worldwide. The six additional compromised web hosts are resellers of GoDaddy’s hosting services. The extent of the intrusion appears to be the same as with GoDaddy, with matching dates of when the security intrusion began.”

The Register: UK.gov emits draft IoT and smartphone security law for Parliamentary scrutiny. “A new British IoT product security law is racing through the House of Commons, with the government boasting it will outlaw default admin passwords and more. The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Bill was introduced yesterday and is intended to drive up security standards in consumer tech gadgetry, ranging from IoT devices to phones, fondleslabs, smart TVs, and so on.” I got the meaning from context but I still looked up fondleslab.

RESEARCH & OPINION

StateTech: Natural Language Processing Takes Off in State Government. “It’s been a decade since IBM’s Watson won $1 million on Jeopardy, demonstrating to millions of Americans on prime-time TV just how well computers can understand humans’ natural language. But that Watson was primitive compared with today’s technology, says IBM Global Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Seth Dobrin. It’s moved through research and experimentation to now represent a scaled set of AI capabilities focused on language, automation and trust.”

The Conversation: Ending online anonymity won’t make social media less toxic. “Online bullying and misinformation are growing problems, and government action to address them is overdue. However, limiting anonymity alone won’t make social media less toxic. It will only work combined with broader reforms to platform design and business models, which drive polarisation, negativity, abuse and misinformation. Reforms must also protect free speech and account for power imbalances between citizens and the state.” Good morning, Internet…

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November 25, 2021 at 06:33PM
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