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May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Google Blog: Keeping your company data safe with new security updates to Gmail

Google Blog: Keeping your company data safe with new security updates to Gmail. “Keeping company data secure is priority one, and that starts with protecting the tools that your employees use every day. We’re constantly adding security features to help businesses stay ahead of potential threats, and are excited to announce new security features for […]

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Morality on Twitter: Collaborative Project Analyzes 1.2m Teacher Posts (Bowdoin College)

Bowdoin College: Morality on Twitter: Collaborative Project Analyzes 1.2m Teacher Posts. “A pioneering research project, involving education and computer science faculty, has now processed more than 1.2 million teacher tweets in an effort to get the true measure of what America’s educators are saying about their jobs.”

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Peel Art Gallery: Why Don’t Archivists Digitize Everything?

Peel Art Gallery: Why Don’t Archivists Digitize Everything?. “In this post we’ll share some of the behind-the-scenes realities of digitizing and uploading rare materials. We hope this boosts awareness about some important facets of document digitization and sharing. One is the vast army of largely anonymous labourers out there whose work makes these valuable resources […]

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Monash University: Google map data to locate best hospitals for patients with stroke

Monash University: Google map data to locate best hospitals for patients with stroke. “A world-first study at Monash University has used Google map data to locate the hospitals to which patients with stroke should be transported for urgent and highly specialised treatment.” If you read my recent article Why Aren’t We Talking About Google Maps? […]

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

The Next Web: Why does Google think most happy families are white?

The Next Web: Why does Google think most happy families are white?. “A Google Images search for ‘happy family’ reveals a significant bias for white, two-parent homes. At the time of writing, 81 of the top 100 results feature white families and just one contains a single parent.”

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz New Resources

PR Newswire: Jerrick Unveils The Omni Archive: Entire Collection of Iconic Sci-Fi Magazine Now Available Online (PRESS RELEASE)

PR Newswire: Jerrick Unveils The Omni Archive: Entire Collection of Iconic Sci-Fi Magazine Now Available Online (PRESS RELEASE). “Through The Omni Archive, all 200 issues of the published magazines are available for viewing and purchase on Amazon. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the nonprofit organization Museum of Science Fiction (MOSF), the […]

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Naked Security: Chrome bug that lets sites secretly record you ‘not a flaw’, insists Google

Naked Security: Chrome bug that lets sites secretly record you ‘not a flaw’, insists Google. “Remember last year’s Google Chrome bug that gave pirates a way to steal streaming movies? Well, we’re ready for our closeup, Mr DeMille! This time, we’re potentially the stars of hackers’ movies: there’s a Google Chrome ‘bug’ (depending on who […]

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Useful Stuff

Echoes From the Vault: Practice Makes Perfect! New Tools for Reading Old Handwriting

Echoes from the Vault: Practice Makes Perfect! New Tools for Reading Old Handwriting. “The ReadMe! resource incorporates digital images of key manuscripts held in the University Library. These have been carefully chosen to provide good examples of characteristic styles of handwriting from the medieval to the early modern periods. Short extracts are made available along […]

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

The Guardian: Parents lose appeal over access to dead girl’s Facebook account

The Guardian: Parents lose appeal over access to dead girl’s Facebook account. “The parents of a dead 15-year-old who appealed to Facebook to allow them access to her account to see if she was being bullied before her death have lost their claim in court. Berlin’s court of appeal ruled on Wednesday that the parents […]

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

ProPublica: Introducing the Vox-ProPublica Video Fellowship

ProPublica: Introducing the Vox-ProPublica Video Fellowship. “….that’s what we’re here to announce: the Vox-ProPublica Video Fellowship. It’s a yearlong position for a video producer, who will be embedded in Vox’s team, producing work fueled by ProPublica’s reporting. We figure everyone wins: Vox will get to dig into ProPublica’s investigations. ProPublica will get to learn about […]

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Google Blog: Searching for art just got better. Where will you start?

Google Blog: Searching for art just got better. Where will you start?. “While some are drawn to the strong brushstrokes of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, others prefer gazing at the gilded glory of Klimt’s The Kiss, but one thing is certain: people love art. In fact, each month, there are more than 500 million […]

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Perils Of Free WiFi: Google & Railwire’s Users Most Hit By WannaCry RansomWare; MP & Maharashtra Worst Hit States (Trak)

From Trak.in: Perils Of Free WiFi: Google & Railwire’s Users Most Hit By WannaCry RansomWare; MP & Maharashtra Worst Hit States. “The devastating outbreak of WannaCry ransomware across the globe this month has exposed a very crucial vulnerability in our security infrastructure, and if this is not taken care of early on, then hackers would […]

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Bloomberg: Bakers Are Cashing In on Instagram’s Cake Obsession

Bloomberg: Bakers Are Cashing In on Instagram’s Cake Obsession. “In a cramped Manhattan apartment kitchen, Chelsey White painstakingly bakes, assembles, frosts and decorates an elaborate mermaid-themed cake. The entire four-hour process is videotaped, then edited down to a few brisk minutes and shared on social media. Its purpose served, the three-tiered, picture-perfect cake is chopped […]

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

The Guardian: Man fined by Swiss court for ‘liking’ defamatory comments on Facebook

The Guardian: Man fined by Swiss court for ‘liking’ defamatory comments on Facebook. “According to a statement from the Zurich district court, the 45-year-old defendant accused an animal rights activist, Erwin Kessler, of racism and antisemitism and hit the ‘like’ button under several comments from third parties about Kessler that were deemed inflammatory.”

May 31, 2017 / Last updated : May 31, 2017 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

CNET: Google formally abandons its Nik photo-editing tools

CNET: Google formally abandons its Nik photo-editing tools. “Google has officially put its Nik photo-editing suite on ice. The tech giant, which last year made the popular collection of photo-editing tools free to use for Mac and Windows, quietly let users know Tuesday that it had gone as far as it plans to go with […]

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