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NEW RESOURCES
The Star (Malaysia): World’s first-ever Muslim family law online repository is launched. “Musawah’s Campaign for Justice (CFJ) in Muslim Family Laws has recently launched its inaugural microsite, which houses the world’s first and only global repository of Muslim family laws. The online archive includes country overview data and tables with detailed and vital information on legislation, case law, procedures, policies and practices in over 38 countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as South and South-East Asia.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
TechCrunch: Google Calendar now lets users specify where they’re working from throughout the day. “Google has allowed users to set their working location for certain days of the week since 2021, but is now also going to give users the option to specify where they’re working from for specific portions of the day. The company says the new functionality should come in handy for people who work from multiple locations such as their home, an office, a specific building or a combination.”
How-To Geek: Firefox 115 Now Available, Final Release for Windows 7 & 8. “It hasn’t been long since the last major Firefox update, but right on schedule, Firefox 115 is now rolling out. The new update has the usual mix of new features and improvements, but it’s also the end of the road for older Windows versions.”
USEFUL STUFF
Smashing Magazine: Sustainable Design Toolkits And Resources. “How can we create products and experiences that don’t cause harm to the planet and to the people who use them? What do we need to consider to make more sustainable design decisions and reduce the carbon footprint of our websites? In this post, we compiled valuable resources that will get you familiar with the principles of sustainable design.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Verge: Twitter’s running busted ads for Amazon and Sky TV. “Some of the ads on Twitter aren’t looking quite right. Several users on the platform’s mobile app say they’re seeing an image of Twitter’s logo in place of the advertisement paid for by Amazon, Sky, and the sportswear company On Running.”
SF Gate: Bay Area tech company Evernote lays off most staff, relocating to Europe. “Evernote, the note-taking app once heralded by Engadget as the ‘king of note-taking apps,’ has laid off most of its staff as it prepares to exit the Bay Area and relocate nearly all operations to Europe.”
Washington Post: How an AI-written Star Wars story created chaos at Gizmodo. “Gizmodo’s error-plagued test speaks to a larger debate about the role of AI in the news. Several reporters and editors said they don’t trust chatbots to create well-reported and thoroughly fact-checked articles. They fear business leaders want to thrust the technology into newsrooms with insufficient caution. When trials go poorly, it ruins employee morale as well as the reputation of the outlet, they argue.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
NBC Chicago: Illinois residents begin receiving payouts in class-action Google privacy settlement. “Illinois residents started receiving payments Friday as part of a multi-million dollar class-action settlement involving Google. Hundreds of thousands of Illinois residents who filed claims in a lawsuit alleging Google violated the state’s Biometric Privacy Act are now seeing their payout, although it won’t be as much as originally expected.” It looks like the settlements are around $95.
Ars Technica: Musk sues law firm because he’s mad that Twitter paid $90 million bill. “Elon Musk’s X Corp. this week sued a law firm that Twitter hired last year after Musk tried to break their $44 billion merger agreement. Musk’s lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court alleges that Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz overcharged Twitter when it collected $90 million—including $84.3 million on the same day Musk completed his purchase of Twitter.”
Scroll .in: Delhi court issues fresh summons to BBC, Internet Archive and Wikimedia in defamation case. “A Delhi court on Friday issued fresh summons to the BBC, non-profit body Wikimedia and digital library Internet Archive in a defamation case related to a documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, reported the Live Law.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
IEEE Spectrum: Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired . “Employing computer vision techniques, students from the Ramaiah Institute of Technology’s IEEE Computational Intelligence Society chapter in Bangalore, India, developed a device to assist people who are visually impaired. OurVision is a low-cost wearable that reads text out loud to users and helps them navigate their surroundings.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Straits Times: Print zines make a comeback with creative designs and niche storytelling. “Zines, typically self-published, unserialised underground print creations, have in recent years become a preferred medium of expression and consumption for some young people. Effectively miniature magazines, they cover topics from neighbourhood street cats to forgotten local stories, such as coconut toddy (palm wine) drinking in colonial Singapore. But where their predecessors might have made just a few copies to distribute among family and friends, today’s zine creators hardly bat an eyelid when printing several hundred issues.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 9, 2023 at 05:30PM
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