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Monthly Archives: April 2020
NSA’s guide for choosing a safe text chat and video conferencing service
ZDNet – NSA publishes guidance on choosing a secure teleworking service. Assessed tools include Slack, Zoom, Signal, Skype, more. “The guidance contains a list of security criteria that the NSA hopes companies take into consideration when selecting which telework tool/service they want to deploy in their environments. The NSA document is not only meant for… Continue Reading
How to Protect Yourself if You’re Forced to Return to Work
Lifehacker: “As some states prepare to open up again, against the advice of experts, what protections do workers have in that they event they feel unsafe at work? This concern was made especially pressing by the recent Department of Labor announcement that workers who refuse to return to work out of general safety concerns cannot… Continue Reading
Turns out men give up on books they don’t like way more easily than women do
Literary Hub: “According to a recent study of ebook usage in the UK, conducted by the Audience Agency, men are likely to give up reading a book before page 50, while women more often make it to page 100 (at least). That said, almost nobody gets to the end of their books at all—according to… Continue Reading
Room Rater for Skype presentations
“We rate Skype rooms. A Mad Dog Production.” Rates furniture, graphic tones, lighting, location of camera (too low much of the time) , clothing, books (yup there are a lot of book shelves with real books!] Continue Reading
COVID-19 Find and Share What You Need to Know Using Nexis
COVID-19 Find and Share What You Need to Know Using Nexis – This is a free 18 minute webinar that does not require user login or password. Continue Reading
Corona Scholar
Corona Scholar -Scientific COVID Knowledge search powered by AI Continue Reading
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
“CORD-19 – COVID-19 Open Research Dataset The Semantic Scholar team at the Allen Institute for AI has partnered with leading research groups to provide CORD-19, a free resource of more than 57,000 scholarly articles about the novel coronavirus for use by the global research community…Discover New Insights About the Novel Coronavirus. Quickly explore the latest… Continue Reading
NIH COVID-19 Portfolio
“The iSearch COVID-19 portfolio is NIH’s comprehensive, curated source for publications related to COVID-19. This portfolio includes articles from PubMed and pre-prints from arXiv, medRxiv, bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, SSRN and Research Square. The portfolio is updated daily with the latest available data.” See also this blog posting – New NIH Resource to Analyze COVID-19 Literature: The… Continue Reading
Managers turn to surveillance software to ensure employees are (really) working from home
Washington Post – Managers turn to surveillance software, always-on webcams to ensure employees are (really) working from home – “Always-on webcams, virtual “water coolers,” constant monitoring: Is the tech industry’s new dream for remote work actually a nightmare?…In the weeks since social distancing lockdowns abruptly scattered the American workforce, businesses across the country have scrambled… Continue Reading
Studies leave question of ‘airborne’ coronavirus transmission unanswered
Washington Post – Research from China detects virus traces in the air, but it is unclear whether such aerosols are infectious or a significant part of the pandemic – “A growing number of studies, including one published this week in the journal Nature, have found evidence that the coronavirus can remain suspended in the air in… Continue Reading
Google Meet premium video meetings—free for everyone
Google Blog: “Today, we’re making Google Meet, our premium video conferencing product, free for everyone, with availability rolling out over the coming weeks. We’ve invested years in making Meet a secure and reliable video conferencing solution that’s trusted by schools, governments and enterprises around the world, and in recent months we’ve accelerated the release of… Continue Reading
