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Daily Archives: April 21, 2022

Best Buy will pick up your unwanted tech, appliances

Ars Technica: “Best Buy announced on Wednesday [April 20, 2022]  a new haul-away recycling service for technology products and appliances. For $200, the company will come to your home and take away your unwanted TVs, PC monitors, kitchen appliances, and more. Best Buy’s Standalone Haul-Away service takes up to two large items, like all-in-one computers, TVs of various types, cooktops, and refrigerators. They also take an unlimited number of smaller pieces of tech and appliances, like laptops, hard drives, video game consoles, keyboards, calculators, and curling irons. But there are some things even Best Buy doesn’t want, like your old 8-tracks, DVDs, Blu-rays, software, instruments, toasters, and waffle makers. You can see a full list of what Best Buy will and won’t take here. Best Buy will give a 20 percent discount on the service to members of Best Buy Totaltech, which includes services like 24/7/365 Geek Squad access and free 2-day shipping for $200 a year…”

The Limitations of Privacy Rights

Solove, Daniel J., The Limitations of Privacy Rights (February 1, 2022). 98 Notre Dame Law Review — (Forthcoming 2023), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4024790 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4024790 “Individual privacy rights are often at the heart of information privacy and data protection laws. The most comprehensive set of rights, from the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),… Continue Reading

This Pandemic Mapping Project Shows How Covid-19 Transformed Our Worlds

Scientific American – “Toward the end of 2020, I interviewed an archaeologist who—while locked out of her lab due to university health restrictions—was collecting photographs of Covid-19’s stamp on public spaces. Latex gloves and polypropylene masks, carelessly discarded in streets, parks, and gutters, featured prominently. She related a horrifying belief: Eventually, these non-decomposable medical accessories… Continue Reading

Take Action Against Climate Change With These Tools and Resources

Wired: “In early April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released another report detailing the latest scientific understandings and possible mitigation efforts. In his analysis of the report for WIRED, senior writer Matt Simon wrote, “We’ll need to leverage both nature and technology if we’re going to head off the worst of climate change. And… Continue Reading

Riding a Bike in America Should Not Be This Dangerous

The New York Times: “The United States is in the midst of a traffic fatality crisis. Nearly 39,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes on American roadways in 2020, the most since 2007. American roads have grown especially dangerous to nonoccupants of vehicles (that is, bicyclists and pedestrians). In 2011, 16 percent of traffic deaths… Continue Reading

NLM Introduces New Tool in Support of Ongoing Pandemic Response

“The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) launched this week the SARS-CoV-2 Variants Overview interactive web resource to support the identification of emerging variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This free, open access tool provides the public health community with valuable information needed to guide COVID-19 pandemic… Continue Reading

WaPo – free access to our entire site through April 22

Washington Post – “In honor of #EarthDay, enjoy free access to our entire site through April 22. Just sign up with your email address when prompted.” Washington Post – “Seeds of hope: How nature inspires scientists to confront climate change. Sarah Kaplan, one of The Post’s climate reporters, introduces a series of short essays from… Continue Reading