ZDNet: “The COVID-19 pandemic drove many into “hermit mode” as our employers required us to work from home for months. Working from home seems easy until you have to do it while dealing with the ordinary distractions of home life! Luckily, there are many strategies for how to improve your focus in this unique work… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2022
What Google Search Isn’t Showing You
The New Yorker: “…Google Search accounts for around eighty-five per cent of the global search-engine market. It has made up so much of our online experience for so long that it can be hard to envision anything different. The Google Search page today looks largely the same as it did when it first launched, in… Continue Reading
Artvee
About Artvee: “In the last few years, several major museums and libraries have instituted an open access policy by designating most or all of the public domain art in their collections with a creative commons license making them available for use for any purpose with no restrictions attached. We sort through and aggregate the best… Continue Reading
How To Make Sure Your Phone Isn’t Keeping Recordings of Everything You Say
Gizmodo: “Even the biggest tech companies continue to stumble when it comes to keeping user data protected, and that extends to giving us control over how voice command requests we make to our digital assistants are logged and processed. So we thought it was worth revisiting which key settings you need to know about on… Continue Reading
The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto
The New York Times: “…Crypto! For years, it seemed like the kind of fleeting tech trend most people could safely ignore, like hoverboards or Google Glass. But its power, both economic and cultural, has become too big to overlook. Twenty percent of American adults, and 36 percent of millennials, own cryptocurrency, according to a recent… Continue Reading
100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying
The Guardian UK: “… 18 Reuse all plastic bags – even bread bags. Much of the packaging you can’t reuse can be taken to larger branches of supermarkets for recycling. 25 Look closely. 31 Ask questions, and listen to the answers. 46 Read a poem every day. Keep a compendium, such as A Poem for… Continue Reading
What are NFTs?
“OK, I know NFT stands for nonfungible token. But what does it actually mean? Let’s start with the words themselves. In economics, “fungible” is a term used for things that can be exchanged for other things of exactly the same kind. The U.S. dollar is fungible, because you and a friend can trade $1 bills,… Continue Reading
Erase or destroy? Governments spend millions to get rid of sensitive data and replace the hardware
Tech Republic: “Government organizations could save millions of dollars by recycling and reusing solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of destroying hardware to protect sensitive data. That’s the recommendation from the Blancco Technology Group’s report on data management methods. The report, “The Price of Destruction: Exploring the Financial and Environmental Costs of Public Sector Device Sanitization,” found… Continue Reading
Free alternatives for watching, reading and listening
Washington Post: “Thanks to creeping inflation, your monthly digital subscriptions might need some pruning…” Continue Reading
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Real-Time Global Trade Sanctions Tracker
“The Global Trade Sanctions tool produced by Coriolis Technologies and the Institute of Export & International Trade offers a unique searchable database of all global sanctions including: UN, EU and UK dual-use goods lists; OFAC; the UN, US and EU Consolidated Screening Lists; Schedule 2 to the Export Control Order 2008; Annex I to Council… Continue Reading
Restoring the Rule of Law through Department of Justice Reform
Finkelstein, Claire and Painter, Richard W., Restoring the Rule of Law through Department of Justice Reform (February 16, 2022). In Overcoming Trumpery: How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and Democracy (Norman Eisen ed., Brookings 2022), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 22-21, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4036891 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4036891 “As… Continue Reading
