MakeUseOf: “Browsers allow you to access the internet, but when outdated, they become potential backdoors for cyberattacks. This is why most browsers now implement automatic updates. But, do you know what version of Chrome, Firefox, or Edge you’re currently using and if it is the latest? In this article, you will learn how to update… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2021
Google Assistant: A cheat sheet
This comprehensive guide covers the history behind Google’s AI-powered Google Assistant, its features and what it means for the future of Google’s business: “Google’s mission is to “create a more helpful Google for you,” said Rick Osterloh, Google’s senior vice president for Devices and Services, at the Made by Google event in October 2019. One… Continue Reading
Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress
CRS Report – Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress. Updated May 17, 2021: “The diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities in the Arctic, and has heightened interest in, and concerns about,the region’s future.The United States, by virtue of Alaska, is an Arctic country and has substantial interests… Continue Reading
NOAA High Tide Bulletin
Summer 2021: When you may experience higher than normal tides between June and August, 2021. “Tides are the regular rise and fall of the sea surface caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun and their position relative to the earth. There are some factors that cause the tides to be higher than… Continue Reading
MIT – Detect Political Fakes
MIT Media Lab: “Did he say that? At Detect Political Fakes, we will show you a variety of media snippets (transcripts, audio, and videos). Half of the media snippets are real statements made by Joseph Biden and Donald Trump. The other half of the media snippets are fabricated. The media snippets that are fabricated are… Continue Reading
Truth, Lies, and Automation – How Language Models Could Change Disinformation
Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, Center for Security and Emerging Technology: Truth, Lies, and Automation How Language Models Could Change Disinformation. Ben Buchanan, Andrew Lohn, Micah Musser, Katerina Sedova. May 2021. “Growing popular and industry interest in high-performing natural language generation models has led to concerns that such models could be used to… Continue Reading
U.S. Media Index database shows news consumers who owns what
Harvard University – Nieman Lab: “If you ever wanted to track down who owns a news outlet, it’s now much easier to do it. The U.S. Media Index database by the Future of Media Project has done the grueling work of compiling that information for us. The databases includes three indices: The U.S. Mainstream Media… Continue Reading
Rethinking Search: Making Experts out of Dilettantes
MIT Technology Review: “…a team of Google researchers has published a proposal for a radical redesign that throws out the ranking approach and replaces it with a single large AI language model—a future version of BERT or GPT-3. The idea is that instead of searching for information in a vast list of web pages, users… Continue Reading
The untold story of how Florence Nightingale used data viz to save lives
Fast Company – “Florence Nightingale is well known as the founder of modern nursing. But after seeing the terrible conditions facing soldiers she treated during the Crimean War, she became a fierce public health advocate. And she harnessed new ways of showing data to do so. Nightingale was a lifelong information designer. As a child,… Continue Reading
FBI Report – America’s Deadly Domestic Extremism Worst In 24 Years
HuffPo: “Killings by American domestic extremists in 2019 were the worst in the nation in 24 years, according to a chilling new report released by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Of the 32 killings by extremists in five separate attacks in 2019 — the most lethal year for domestic extremist assaults since… Continue Reading
More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean
Research Article. Environmental Studies. [Full text is Free] More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean. J. J. Meijer, Tim van Emmerik, Ruud van der Ent, Christian Schmidt and Laurent Lebreton. Science Advances 30 Apr 2021:Vol. 7, no. 18, eaaz5803 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5803 See also – The Ocean Cleanup:… Continue Reading
What executives are saying about the future of hybrid work
McKinsey: “In the postpandemic future of work, nine out of ten organizations will be combining remote and on-site working, according to a new McKinsey survey of 100 executives across industries and geographies. The survey confirms that productivity and customer satisfaction have increased during the pandemic. Despite the embrace of a hybrid model, though, most organizations… Continue Reading
