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June 30, 2015 / Last updated : June 30, 2015 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Supreme Court Will Not Hear Oracle v. Google

The Supreme Court has refused to hear Oracle v. Google. “The Supreme Court has declined to hear Oracle v. Google, sending the long-running case back to a lower court where Google will have to argue that it made fair use of Oracle’s copyrighted APIs. This has been a closely watched case, as the final decision […]

June 30, 2015 / Last updated : June 30, 2015 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Harry Ransom Center Launches Open Access, Project REVEAL

The Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin has initiated an open access policy and started a new project. “In conjunction with the release of the policy, the Ransom Center launches Project REVEAL (Read and View English and American Literature), a year-long initiative to digitize and make available 25 of its manuscript collections of some of the […]

June 30, 2015 / Last updated : June 30, 2015 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Google Delivering “Degraded” Search Results?

Oooh. A study claims that Google is delivering “degraded” search results by ranking its own content higher than other, competing content. “In a study sponsored by Yelp – one of the companies listed as a complainant in the EU antitrust case against Google, former FTC advisor Tim Wu from Columbia Law School and Harvard Business […]

June 30, 2015 / Last updated : June 30, 2015 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Government Of India Launches Digital Library Platform for School Books

The government of India has launched an new digital library for school books. “Now, under Digital India initiative, the Government has launched a platform that extends may help Indian school students tremendously. Aptly called eBasta (Basta means school bag in Hindi), this new platform was unveiled today by the Government that will provide digital and […]

June 30, 2015 / Last updated : June 30, 2015 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Livecoding Is Like Twitch for Coding

Do you like Twitch? There’s something like that for coding. “The way Livecoding works is pretty simple. Developers stream live video of themselves coding, and users watching can ask questions or give feedback. Since launching a beta in February, Livecoding has seen 40,000 people sign up across 162 countries. Users have streamed in a variety […]

June 30, 2015 / Last updated : June 30, 2015 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Pulling Fossil Data from Research Papers

Interesting stuff from Nature: exploring ways to automatically pull fossil data from research papers. “For a field whose raison d’être is to chronicle the deep past, palaeontology is remarkably forward-looking when it comes to organizing its data. Victorian natural history museums meticulously organized their collections with handwritten cards that survive to this day. And over […]

June 30, 2015 / Last updated : June 30, 2015 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Bing To Power AOL Search Starting January 1

More Bing: it will start powering the search at AOL. “The 10-year deal with AOL is the latest to validate the exceptional quality of our search results and marketplace. No longer just a destination search engine, Bing is becoming an integral part of many popular third party devices and services, and Microsoft experiences including Windows, […]

June 30, 2015 / Last updated : June 30, 2015 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Exploit Kits for Flash Vulnerabilities Floating Around

Make sure you have your Flash patched up, there are some exploit kits floating around. “French researcher Kafeine said on Sunday that a sample he encountered was dropping two instances of Cryptowall ransomware against a Windows 7 computer running Internet Explorer 11. Cryptowall is a strain of ransomware that encrypts files on a victim’s computer […]

June 30, 2015 / Last updated : June 30, 2015 ResearchBuzz Useful Stuff

Super Searcher Tricks from MEB

From the always-awesome Mary Ellen Bates, a couple of super searcher tricks. One of the tricks she mentions is restricting search to .gov sites only. If you want to search just government sites but want to search a slightly larger data pool than just .gov, check out this Google custom search engine I put together […]

June 30, 2015 / Last updated : June 30, 2015 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Research: Is Facebook Useful for Online Learning?

Research: Could Facebook be useful for online learning? “In a first-of-its-kind study, Michigan State University’s Christine Greenhow found that high school and college students engaged in vigorous, intelligent debate about scientific issues in a voluntary Facebook forum….[Christine] Greenhow, recognized as one of the most social media savvy professors in America, analyzed the students’ activity on […]

June 29, 2015 / Last updated : June 29, 2015 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Crowdfunding Campaign Underway to Save the Reels of Owsley Stanley

A campaign is underway to preserve the reel-to-reel recordings of Owsley “Bear” Stanley. This is going to be a huge endeavor as there are over 1300 reels and they’re kind of racing against time at this point before the reels degrade. “Although our campaign opens with a goal of $10,000, that’s just the start. The […]

June 29, 2015 / Last updated : June 29, 2015 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Google Earth is Ten Years Old, Adds New Features

Google Earth is ten years old and has some new features. My favorite is Voyager. “The world is a big place, and it can be hard to know where to begin your virtual journey. Now you can jump straight to the newest and most interesting imagery around the globe with a new layer, Voyager, available […]

June 29, 2015 / Last updated : June 29, 2015 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Uber Requires Some of Bing’s Mapping Assets

Okay, this just got extra-real: Uber has acquired part of Bing’s mapping assets. “Uber will acquire assets from Microsoft Bing, including roughly 100 employees focused on the product’s image collection activities. In short, Uber is absorbing data-collection engineers from Microsoft to bolster its own mapping work.”

June 29, 2015 / Last updated : June 29, 2015 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Chattanooga, Tennessee Gets an Online Historic Film Archive

Chattanooga, Tennessee now has an online archive of historical film footage. “More than 400 reels of film depicting snippets of life in Chattanooga during the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s were donated to the Chattanooga History Center in 2009. Many of those films are finally available for viewing as a part of the center’s online digital […]

June 29, 2015 / Last updated : June 29, 2015 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

DLG Teams Up With Columbia Theological Seminary

The Digital Library of Georgia is teaming up with the Columbia Theological Seminary and launched three new digital collections. “The three new digital collections that have just been made available from Columbia Theological Seminary include: Charles Colcock Jones papers, 1831-1856 This collection includes manuscript sermons, 1831-1856, preached by Charles Colcock Jones, Presbyterian minister and educator […]

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