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EVENTS
Creative Commons: Introducing Open Culture Live: A Webinar Series. “The CC Open Culture Team is excited to announce a new webinar series, Open Culture Live. This series will feature conversations with experts on a number of topics, from the basics of open culture to discussions about traditional knowledge, artificial intelligence, respectful terminologies in collections, and more.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Land: Google fixes Google News indexing bug. “Google has confirmed it fixed the ongoing issue with Google News indexing. This resulted in many publishers seeing massive traffic declines from Google News for a three-week period, starting around June 21st.”
Japan Times: How the deteriorating Twitter experience affects its prized Japan market. “Ranging from reading news and chatting with friends to promoting products and gathering information in times of disaster, Twitter has become an essential tool for many on a daily basis in Japan — making it one of the microblogging site’s most important markets. But concerns are growing over the fate of the social media service following a series of revisions since Elon Musk acquired it last October that have prompted a chorus of complaints by users and companies over what many say is a deteriorating user experience on the platform.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Fast Company: Why Gen Z is flocking from Twitter to LinkedIn. “For years, Twitter has been the platform of choice for young professionals looking to make a name for themselves in their industry. However, in recent years, LinkedIn has emerged as a serious contender for the attention of Gen Z, who are now the fastest-growing global audience demographic on LinkedIn. Gen Z will soon become the largest generation of consumers, accounting for $143 billion in direct spending, says Lisa Sy from the Insights & Data Team at LinkedIn.”
TechCrunch: Threads, a Slack alternative completely unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge . “Threads, a Slack alternative that launched out stealth back in 2019 with backing from Sequoia Capital, has seen a significant increase in traffic to its website in the days following its new namesake’s launch. This is largely owing to the fact that Threads (the Slack alternative) owns the Threads.com domain name, whereas Instagram’s incarnation is on the less sexy Threads.net (though the app doesn’t have a web interface as of yet).”
Axios: Investing in the “AI mafias”. “Llion Jones is about to depart Google, which means all the authors of the internet giant’s seminal ‘Attention is all you need’ paper on artificial intelligence will have left — and nearly all have started their own venture-backed companies. Why it matters: Like other cohorts that decamped from big technology brands to start their own ventures, it appears the era of “AI mafias” is now upon us.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
UPI: Andrew Tate accusers face harassment from ‘troll army’ as influencer seeks defamation suit in U.S.. “The alpha male influencer Andrew Tate, who is criminally charged with human trafficking and rape in Romania, is seeking a U.S. defamation lawsuit against two of his accusers. McCue Jury & Partners, a British law firm representing four women who have initiated legal proceedings against him in London, said in a statement Friday that 36-year-old Tate and his brother Tristan were seeking the legal proceedings in the United States.”
The Guardian: Jeremy Vine agrees deal with Twitter user who falsely named him as accused BBC star. “Jeremy Vine has agreed a settlement with a Twitter user who falsely identified him as the BBC presenter at the centre of claims he paid a young person thousand of pounds for explicit photographs.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
UC Irvine: UCI launches Center for Data-Driven Drugs Research and Policy. “UCI has launched the Center for Data-Driven Drugs Research and Policy to accelerate research that tackles pressing individual and population health challenges and to address the lack of diversity in biomedical studies.”
University of Chicago: Your ability to remember works of art may be predictable. “According to Wilma Bainbridge, study co-author and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, the team wanted to determine how well they could predict what people remember when they visit an art museum. The assumption would be that people might have very individual perspectives on how they connect to and appreciate art, so there wouldn’t be much consistency in people’s memory of different pieces.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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July 18, 2023 at 12:22AM
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