From the US Embassy in Haiti: Haitian National Police (HNP) and U.S. Embassy Target Fake Facebook Pages Defrauding Visa Applicants. “In a joint effort between the HNP and the U.S. Embassy, Embassy staff worked with Facebook to remove three profiles that were impersonating the U.S. Embassy. The fraudulent profiles, which included ‘Ambassy usa in haiti’ […]
3Ders.org: 3D scanning allows Dundee’s D’Arcy Thompson Museum to share virtual zoological collection online. “The D’Arcy Thompson Museum at Scotland’s University of Dundee has created a library of 3D models documenting its zoological collection. CT scanners and handheld structured light scanners were used to turn the originals into digital files, and the collection been accessed […]
WIRED: Wanna Protect Your Online Privacy? Open a Tab and Make Some Noise. “Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to let internet service providers sell your browsing data on the open market. This decision angered a lot of people, including programmer Dan Schultz. After reading about the vote on Twitter at 1 AM, he turned […]
Mashable: Snapchat wants you to submit ALL THE videos. “Snapchat wants you to watch more Stories, so it’s making them easier to discover. The app on Friday released the ability (in specific cities) to search for Stories with the nifty search bar they introduced to the top of the main screen back in January.”
Saturday fun from News18: Google Brings Pacman on Google Maps on April Fool’s Day. “Just like every year, Google has got in store a peppy present for its users for April 1. The ‘April Fool’ gimmick that Google releases every year has found its way to the Google Maps yet again.”
TechCrunch: Nuzzel launches a ‘Newswire’ for sponsored content. “For the first time, news aggregator Nuzzel will include advertising. That doesn’t mean you’re going to see banner ads popping up all over the startup’s app and website. Instead, the Nuzzel Newswire consists of sponsored links in Nuzzel’s email newsletter, pointing to a blog post, press release […]
New York Times: A Quick Guide to Backing Up Your Critical Data. “As headlines about hacking and cybertheft remind us daily, our personal devices are vulnerable. The good news is that setting up a system to keep your files backed up automatically is easy. Spending a little time today could save you a lot of […]
From the National Museums of Kenya: National Museums of Kenya Launches Key Initiative With Amazon Web Services and Intel to Digitize Premier Collections in Earth Sciences. (Link is to a PDF.) “The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) today announced a long-term strategic initiative, teamed with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Intel, to digitize marquee collections […]
BBC: Earliest editions of Radio Times magazines now available online. “For the first time, we are now releasing the complete 1920s magazines online to the public, as part of the BBC Genome Project. The BBC has in the last few years used the scanned and processed listings from the issues of Radio Times from 1923 […]
MIT Technology Review: Baidu’s Plan for Artificial Intelligence without Andrew Ng. “When Andrew Ng, one of the world’s leading thinkers on artificial intelligence, announced he would be stepping down from his position as chief scientist at Chinese search giant Baidu, the company’s stock dropped nearly 3 percent in just a few hours. It was a […]
The Next Web: YouTube calls on the crowd to translate video titles. “Bilingual viewers can now help their favorite YouTube video stars by translating video titles and descriptions into other languages. With this update, the platform aims to create a more inclusive global audience. With viewers who speak a total of 76 languages, it’s easy […]
The Drum: YouTube content creators could see ad revenues fall as Google imposes new controls. “Some YouTube content creators have voiced upset after observing a discernable decline in their advertising revenues following the imposition of more stringent controls by Google to calm advertisers disquiet over their association with extremist content.”
TechCrunch: The new algorithms enabling Facebook’s data fixation. “Two billion photos find their way onto Facebook’s family of apps every single day and the company is racing to understand them and their moving counterparts with the hope of increasing engagement. And while machine learning is undoubtedly the map to the treasure, Facebook and its competitors […]
Now available: a digital archive of The Michigan Daily, student newspaper at the University of Michigan. “The digitization has been a collaboration between the Bentley, The Michigan Daily and the U-M Library. The digital archive contains every extant issue of The Michigan Daily, from its founding in 1891 to 2015—including more than 300 volumes from […]
The Financial Diet: The Ugly Truth Behind Why I Quit Being A Social Media Influencer. “Before I first launched my blog in 2011, I remember being awestruck by the people on my feed leading these lavish, globe-trotting lifestyles. Even the younger crowd had an air of whimsical privilege, like they were extras in Gossip Girl […]