By ResearchBuzz on July 27, 2024• ( Leave a comment )
NEW RESOURCES
Georgia Public Library Service: Georgia Public Library Service Expands Online Access to Historic Newspapers. “Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS), in partnership with public libraries statewide, has completed the digitization of over 46,000 pages of newspapers from 1907-1972, which can be accessed for free through the Georgia Historic Newspaper (GHN) archive.”
American Legion: 70 years of Legion Baseball rule books now available on Digital Archive. “Learn about American Legion Baseball with more than 70 years of digitized rule books, starting with the 1928 season. The newly available books demonstrate changes in Legion Baseball over the last nearly 100 years. The national youth program was founded in 1926 as American Legion Junior Baseball. In 1961, the name was changed to American Legion Baseball to differentiate the program from other youth baseball programs.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Flipboard: Flipboard Brings Local News to the Fediverse. “Today, we’re flipping the ‘fedi switch’ on 64 U.S.-based local and regional publications that we think will enrich the fediverse and make it even more useful for community members. These include news-focused publications like South Florida Sun Sentinel and Cleveland.com, lifestyle titles such as Denver Life, and papers that go deep on specific issues — think High Country News, which looks at environmental issues in the American West, and Honolulu Civil Beat, which focuses on public affairs reporting in Hawaii.”
Bloomberg: YouTube Throttled in Russia in Latest Attack on Social Media. “Russia is throttling access to Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube as the Kremlin moves toward blocking one of the last US social media sites still available in the country. Youtube download speeds on computers will be slowed by around 40% this week and 70% by the end of next week, Alexander Khinshtein, head of the technology committee in Russia’s lower house of parliament, said on his Telegram channel Thursday.”
TechCrunch: Google makes its Gemini chatbot faster and more widely available. “Starting Thursday, Gemini 1.5 Flash — a lightweight multimodal model Google announced in May — will be available on the web and mobile in 40 languages and around 230 countries. Google claims that Gemini 1.5 Flash delivers upgrades in quality and latency, with especially noticeable improvements in reasoning and image understanding.”
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
KROC: Rochester Shuts Down Comments on City Social Media Pages . “The City of Rochester [Minnesota] has taken a step towards attempting to end online behavior that leaders say contradicts the city’s values…. From now on, comments on official City of Rochester social media pages are discontinued. That includes the city’s main social media pages, city department pages and Mayor Kim Norton’s pages.”
American Press Institute: How news of Biden’s social media announcement spread . “The news of Biden’s withdrawal spread quickly via a slew of information sources — many of them not mainstream news sources. Minutes after Biden’s announcement was posted, X accounts like the Liza Minnelli fan account LizaMinnelliOutlives and NBA reporter Shams Charania shared the news with followers before major news outlets had confirmed it.” You know how I found out about it? I was looking at YouTube’s home page and someone was doing a livestream. No kidding.
SECURITY & LEGAL
Axios: Judge tosses part of social media giants’ lawsuit over Utah age rules. “A federal judge threw out part of a lawsuit filed against Utah by social media companies over the state’s pending age restrictions for the platforms. The big picture: Meta, Google and TikTok say Utah lawmakers are violating users’ First Amendment rights by requiring age verification and parental consent for minors to use social media.”
Japan Times: 25-year-old arrested over fake rescue requests on social media. “Ishikawa prefectural police on Wednesday arrested a 25-year-old corporate employee for allegedly posting fake rescue requests on social media shortly after the Jan. 1 Noto Peninsula earthquake in central Japan. Ryota Kanamaru, a resident of the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, has admitted the allegations, saying that he wanted to get a lot of responses.”
BBC: MrBeast co-host quits after grooming allegations. “MrBeast’s YouTube co-host Ava Kris Tyson has quit the channel after grooming allegations, which she denies. The 28-year-old US YouTuber, who has more than 22,000 subscribers on her own channel, was accused of sending inappropriate messages to a minor, reportedly then 13, when she was 20.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
LiveScience: Sending ‘touch’ over the internet could soon be as easy as sending a video with new haptic file format. “Researchers have developed a ‘Haptic Codecs for the Tactile Internet’ (HCTI) standard that allows haptic information to be sent both ways across a network via data packets that are neither excessive in size nor require large amounts of bandwidth. They outlined the details in a paper published June 14 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standards Association.”
North Carolina State University: How a ‘Digital Twin’ Can Make Wireless Networks Faster, More Reliable. “Computer science researchers have developed a new method for predicting what data wireless computing users will need before they need it, making wireless networks faster and more reliable. The new method makes use of a technique called a ‘digital twin,’ which effectively clones the network it is supporting.” Good morning, Internet….
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