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,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2022
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
The 10 Best Online Translators You Can Use in the Real World
MakeUseOf: “Where do you go when you need a quick translation to another language? A friend? Or a foreign language dictionary? You can also keep a handy browser extension if you need to translate words often. However, things can get challenging if you prefer not to install one, or if your company simply doesn’t allow… 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
How to Properly Recycle Your Paper and Cardboard
CNET – There’s a right way to recycle your paper and cardboard: “If you receive meal kits, pizza deliveries or Amazon packages regularly, you probably have a stack of empty boxes sitting somewhere in your house. And while you may think you can recycle any cardboard and paper, that’s not the case. In light of… Continue Reading
Cell carriers can use your web history for ads
Washington Post: “Here’s how you can opt out of carriers’ ad programs, which run on your personal data. When you signed up for your cellphone plan, your carrier may have signed you up for something extra: a program that uses data including your Internet history to target you with ads. I visited my own Verizon… 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
Digital Wallets and Selected Policy Issues
CRS In Focus – Digital Wallets and Selected Policy Issues, April 18, 2022: “Digital Wallet Landscape – A digital wallet is a software application that stores payment or account details to facilitate traditional payments that use bank and credit card details and/or cryptocurrency transactions. In addition, wallets facilitate peer-to-peer transfers, which have grown rapidly in… Continue Reading
America’s endangered rivers
America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2022: “Catastrophic drought. Disastrous floods. Fish and other freshwater species nearing extinction, as rivers heat up. Many people in the United States have imagined climate change as a problem in the future. But it is here now, and the primary way that each of us is experiencing climate change is… Continue Reading
