“Green Light optimizes traffic lights to reduce vehicle emissions in cities, helping mitigate climate change and improving urban mobility Road transportation is responsible for a significant amount of global and urban greenhouse gas emissions. It is especially problematic at city intersections where pollution can be 29 times higher than on open roads. At intersections, half… Continue Reading
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States are already collecting more abortion data. And HIPAA won’t always keep it private.
Nebraska Examiner: “Years before the Dobbs decision, providers like Dr. Kylie Cooper were already uncomfortable with some of the reporting requirements for abortion procedures in states where they practiced. Cooper was a maternal-fetal medicine specialist for several years in Idaho before she reluctantly left the state in 2023 because of the near-total abortion ban that… Continue Reading
Detectives welcome on historic quest to rediscover the Lost Library of Books
Wiener Library teams up with Leo Baeck Institute to search for collection of 60,000 precious books looted by Nazis from The Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin – Jewish News: Detectives welcome on historic quest to rediscover the Lost Library of Books. “The new pop-up exhibition at the Wiener Library reveals the complex journeys… Continue Reading
Picasso Museum opens vast online archive
“The Musée Picasso-Paris collection comprises over 5,000 works and tens of thousands of archived pieces. For its quality and scope as well as the range of art forms it encompasses, this collection is the only one in the world to present both Picasso’s complete painted, sculpted, engraved and illustrated œuvre and a precise record—through sketches,… Continue Reading
AI Now
Perkins, Rachelle Holmes, AI Now (May 24, 2024). Temple Law Review,Vol. 97, Forthcoming, George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 24-14, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4840481 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4840481 “Legal scholars have made important explorations into the opportunities and challenges of generative artificial intelligence within legal education and the practice of law. This Article adds to… Continue Reading
Legal Research in the NextGen Era
Drake, Alyson and Watson, Amanda, Legal Research in the NextGen Era (May 1, 2024). U of Houston Law Center Forthcoming, Buffalo Law Review Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4819702 “The NextGen Bar’s content scope areas have centered legal research as an analysis and strategy-focused discipline. This has provided an important opportunity for legal research instructors to… Continue Reading
Law Firms Start Training Summer Associates on Using Generative AI
Bloomberg Law: “Some Big Law firms are now making summer associates learn the ins and outs of generative AI as they begin integrating what’s considered to be a game-changing technology for the profession. K&L Gates, Dechert, and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe have incorporated training on the technology for this year’s class of summer associates, teaching… Continue Reading
Long-Term Health Effects of COVID-19
National Academies: Disability and Function Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection (2024) – “Since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in early 2020, many individuals infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), have continued to experience lingering symptoms for months or even years following infection. Some symptoms can… Continue Reading
Legal Definitions: A Research Guide for Congressional Staff
CRS – Legal Definitions: A Research Guide for Congressional Staff Updated June 6, 2024; ‘This report is designed to introduce congressional staff to examples of legal and nonlegal sources, including statutes, legislation, and dictionaries, for researching legal definitions. It includes governmental sources, such as the United States Code (U.S. Code), the Code of Federal Regulations… Continue Reading
Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets
Forbes [unpaywalled]:” AI-powered search startup Perplexity appears to be plagiarizing journalists’ work through its newly launched feature, Perplexity Pages, which lets people curate content on a particular topic. Multiple posts that have been “curated” by the Perplexity team on its platform are strikingly similar to original stories from multiple publications, including Forbes, CNBC and Bloomberg.… Continue Reading
Same Energy
“Same Energy is a visual search engine. You can use it to find beautiful art, photography, decoration ideas, or anything else […similar to Pinterest but provides many more images uncluttered by text and comments]. We believe that image search should be visual, using only a minimum of words. And we believe it should integrate a… Continue Reading
All the place where you can now find microplastics
Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “Microplastics have popped up in rivers, oceans, soil, food, tea and even Antarctic snow — and now these tiny plastic particles are showing up in clouds. A group of researchers from Waseda University in Tokyo recently found microplastics in the clouds above Mount Fuji. In a paper published in Environmental Chemistry Letters,… Continue Reading
