FastCompany – “The private burial service for civil rights icon John Lewis takes place today in Atlanta. Lewis passed away earlier this month at the age of 80 from pancreatic cancer. Lewis was one of the most prominent civil rights icons from the 1960s onwards, and since then he has served in public office in… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2020
Libraries vs Bookstores? No, False dichotomy. They are different Animals
Brewster Kahle’s Blog – Internet Archive: “There is a recent written attack on libraries that I find odd and somewhat dangerous– libraries overlap too much with new-book bookstores. At first I thought it was trolling, but I now believe it is sincere. More worrisome is that anti-library lobbying is generally growing in strength but their attacks on… Continue Reading
Fireman & Company releases white paper on PacerPro usage data with 21 major law firms
PRNewswie – PacerPro, a leading provider of workflow automation and experience capture services for US federal court litigation is pleased to announce that Fireman & Company has published a white paper covering usage and ROI data for 21 of its major AMLaw 100 and leading litigation boutique firms. Firms participating in the white paper include:… Continue Reading
The most-watched show in all of television
Poynter: “…Sometimes, it’s easy to gloss over such numbers because they all start to run together and look the same. Such as when ABC once again points out that its nightly news broadcast, “World News Tonight,” is the most-watched show on TV. It has been that way for eight straight weeks, and for much of… Continue Reading
How to use your iPhone as a webcam for video conferencing and virtual meetings
Macworld: “Just because you’re working from home now doesn’t mean you’re off the hook when it comes to meetings. And just because you don’t have a spare webcam around doesn’t mean you need to peel back the tape that’s covering your laptop’s camera—as long as you have an iPhone or an iPad, you can easily… Continue Reading
China Is the First Surveillance Superpower
The Atlantic – Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe. “…Xi’s pronouncements on AI have a sinister edge. Artificial intelligence has applications in nearly every human domain, from the instant translation of spoken language to early viral-outbreak detection. But Xi also… Continue Reading
Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores
Reuters Investigation: “Over about eight years, the American drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp quietly added facial recognition systems to 200 stores across the United States, in one of the largest rollouts of such technology among retailers in the country, a Reuters investigation found. In the hearts of New York and metro Los Angeles, Rite Aid deployed the… Continue Reading
‘Instagram can hurt us’: Mark Zuckerberg emails outline plan to neutralize competitors
The Verge – Antitrust panel says the messages show Zuckerberg trying to buy out his competition: “…The emails between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief financial officer David Ebersman were revealed today during the House antitrust subcommittee’s hearing on antitrust issues in tech, as Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) questioned Zuckerberg about the Instagram acquisition. The… Continue Reading
ABA Report on Women of Color Lawyers Lands During National Reckoning with Race, Perspective
“The summer of 2020 was not on the minds of researchers when, three years ago, they embarked on studying the experiences of women of color who had practiced in law firms for 15 years or more as part of a multipronged project on long-term careers by the American Bar Association (ABA) and the ABA Commission… Continue Reading
The Washington Post announces writing style changes for racial and ethnic identifiers
The Post to capitalize Black to identify groups that make up the African diaspora: “Beginning immediately, The Washington Post will uppercase the B in Black to identify the many groups that make up the African diaspora in America and elsewhere. This decision comes after extensive discussions with members of our own news organization, consultations with… Continue Reading
Online Platforms and Market Power Part 6: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law – July 29 2020: Support Documents – Hearing Notice [PDF] Hearing Notice – Revision 1 [PDF] Added 07/24/2020 at 03:48 PM Witnesses: Mr. Jeff Bezos Chief Executive Officer, Amazon.com, Inc. Jeff Bezos Statement [PDF]; Mr. Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer, Apple Inc. Tim Cook Statement… Continue Reading
Thanks to COVID-19 everybody wants Density’s technology tracking building occupancy and use
TechCrunch: “Before the COVID-19 epidemic, Density was being used by companies like TechCrunch’s parent company, Verizon, to see how it could better use office space after the Yahoo!/Aol merger. Now, thanks to the COVID-19 epidemic everyone wants the company’s technology to track building and room occupancy and use. It’s one reason why the company managed… Continue Reading
