By ResearchBuzz on February 14, 2024• ( Leave a comment )
NEW RESOURCES
9Now (Australia): Australian War Memorial brings historic Aussie love letters to life in digital collection. “The Australian War Memorial is calling on the public to assist in transcribing thousands of love letters dating back almost a century. Launching on Valentine’s Day, the project will see the digital release of hundreds of thousands of personal letters, diaries and other handwritten documents.”
National Library of Finland: Car surfing – Finnish motorsport collected to the Web Archive. “The roaring of engines from gravel roads to esports has been collected into the Finnish Web Archive. Limited to the year 2023, a new themed web harvest offers a digital time capsule into recreational and competitive motorsport in Finland…. The content includes online materials from car, motorcycle, snowmobile, aviation, and boating sports. Activities and competitions involving drones and other remote-controlled devices are also included in the themed web harvest”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Mashable: V-Day Google Doodle game is an adorable chemistry lesson. “Previously for Valentine’s Day, Google reunited two lovesick hamsters for its Google Doodle. This year, the search engine went in a more scientific direction. Click on the Google Doodle on the site’s homepage and a Chemistry ‘CuPd’ quiz pops up. You have the option to take the quiz — five quick personality questions — to determine which chemical element you are, or choose one yourself.”
Silicon Republic: TikTok reveals ‘election centres’ to tackle EU disinformation. “TikTok has shared details on a new in-app initiative to help users get factual information during 2024 elections across the EU. The social media app said it will launch an Election Centre in its app next month for each of the 27 EU member states. TikTok said it will work with local electoral commissions and civil society organisations to provide ‘trusted and authoritative information’ for users.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
TechCrunch: Flipboard just brought over 1,000 of its social magazines to Mastodon and the fediverse. “The fediverse just got a little bigger today as Flipboard has now launched over 1,000 of its social magazines across the decentralized social web, allowing its curators and publishers to reach new audiences…. Starting today, users can follow these specific interests by following their feeds within their preferred federated app, like Mastodon. Participating publishers include Smithsonian, Bloomberg Green, Frommer’s, The Intercept, Real Simple, Refinery29, Mashable, Medium and others.”
WIRED: The Story Behind Elon Musk’s Tweet Restriction Fiasco. “While the finer points of running a social media business can be debated, one basic truth is that they all run on attention. Tech leaders are incentivized to grow their user bases so there are more people looking at more ads for more time. It’s just good business. As the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk presumably shared that goal. But he claimed he hadn’t bought Twitter to make money. This freed him up to focus on other passions: stopping rival tech companies from scraping Twitter’s data without permission—even if it meant losing eyeballs on ads.”
Art UK: Announcing our new murals digitisation and engagement programme. “This three-year initiative starts in January 2024 and runs to December 2026. We will record and photograph around 5,000 murals across the UK and make them freely available on the Art UK website. Painted murals will constitute a large part of this project, alongside sculptural murals in concrete, brick, wood, stone, tile and other materials.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Krebs on Security: Juniper Support Portal Exposed Customer Device Info. “Until earlier this week, the support website for networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks was exposing potentially sensitive information tied to customer products, including which devices customers bought, as well as each product’s warranty status, service contracts and serial numbers. Juniper said it has since fixed the problem, and that the inadvertent data exposure stemmed from a recent upgrade to its support portal.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Ohio State University: New AI tool helps leverage database of 10 million biology images. “[Samuel] Stevens and his colleagues first curated and released the world’s largest and most diverse machine learning-ready image dataset, TreeOfLife-10M, which contains over 10 million images of plants, animals and fungi covering more than 454,000 taxa in the tree of life. In comparison, the previous largest database ready for machine learning contains only 2.7 million images covering 10,000 taxa. The diversity of this data is one of the key enabling features of their algorithm.”
Search Engine Land: Reddit shown excessively in Google product review search results, study finds. “Reddit shows up 97.5% of the time in Google Search product review queries and accounts for nearly two-thirds of the slots reserved for Google’s Discussions and forums SERP feature, a new analysis finds.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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