January 14, 2021 / Last updated : January 14, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Causality dilemma: creating a twenty-first century university archive (Journal of the Medical Library Association)

Journal of the Medical Library Association: Causality dilemma: creating a twenty-first century university archive. “For its fifteenth anniversary, the Jay Sexter Library at Touro University Nevada (TUN) sought ways to capture its institutional history by founding an archive. Among many challenges, the library struggled to convince the administration of the importance of an archive. To […]
January 14, 2021 / Last updated : January 14, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

EurekAlert: Researchers deconstruct ancient Jewish parchment using multiple imaging techniques

EurekAlert: Researchers deconstruct ancient Jewish parchment using multiple imaging techniques. “A picture may be worth a thousand words, but capturing multiple images of an artifact across the electromagnetic spectrum can tell a rich story about the original creation and degradation of historical objects over time. Researchers recently demonstrated how this was possible using several complementary […]
January 14, 2021 / Last updated : January 14, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Science: Scientists ‘program’ living bacteria to store data

Science: Scientists ‘program’ living bacteria to store data. “Hard disks and optical drives store gigabits of digital data at the press of a button. But those technologies—like the magnetic tapes and floppy drives before them—are apt to become antiquated and unreadable when they are overtaken by new technology. Now, researchers have come up with a […]
January 14, 2021 / Last updated : January 14, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

News @ Northeastern: On Twitter, Journalists And Politicians Have More Credibility On Vaccines Than Medical Experts, Study Finds

News @ Northeastern: On Twitter, Journalists And Politicians Have More Credibility On Vaccines Than Medical Experts, Study Finds . “Black, Indigenous, and other non-white people in the United States are more likely to rely on trusted voices within their own communities for information about the pandemic and the coronavirus vaccine, finds a new study led […]
January 13, 2021 / Last updated : January 13, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Harvard Business Review: How to Hold Social Media Accountable for Undermining Democracy

Harvard Business Review: How to Hold Social Media Accountable for Undermining Democracy. “While the blame for President Trump’s incitement to insurrection lies squarely with him, the biggest social media companies — most prominently my former employer, Facebook — are absolutely complicit. They have not only allowed Trump to lie and sow division for years, their […]
January 13, 2021 / Last updated : January 13, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Lawfare Blog: The Facebook Oversight Board Should Review Trump’s Suspension

Lawfare Blog: The Facebook Oversight Board Should Review Trump’s Suspension. “While Congress works out what form of accountability it will impose on President Trump for inciting insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week, the president has faced a swift and brutal reckoning online. Snapchat, Twitch, Shopify, email providers and payment processors, among others, have all […]
January 13, 2021 / Last updated : January 13, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Data Center Knowledge: Machine Learning Is Helping High-Performance Computing Go Mainstream

Data Center Knowledge: Machine Learning Is Helping High-Performance Computing Go Mainstream. “Once confined to specialized workloads with high compute requirements, such as academic and medical research, financial modeling, and energy exploration, high-performance computing, or HPC, has in recent years been finding its way into IT of all stripes. This has partly been brought about by […]
January 11, 2021 / Last updated : January 11, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

University at Buffalo: Twitter was right to suspend Trump’s account, UB expert says

University at Buffalo: Twitter was right to suspend Trump’s account, UB expert says. “UB geographer Monica Stephens agrees with Twitter’s decision to suspend President Donald Trump’s account following Wednesday’s insurrection in which his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the process of confirming President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory. ‘I think that given the circumstances, […]
January 11, 2021 / Last updated : January 11, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Study: Words should match the pictures when broadcasting social media safety messages (News-Medical)

News-Medical: Study: Words should match the pictures when broadcasting social media safety messages. “When using social media to nudge people toward safe and healthy behaviors, it’s critical to make sure the words match the pictures, according to a new study. After looking at social media posts, parents of young children were better able to recall […]
January 11, 2021 / Last updated : January 11, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

AI Copilot: Air Force achieves first military flight with artificial intelligence (US Air Force)

US Air Force: AI Copilot: Air Force achieves first military flight with artificial intelligence. “Signaling a major leap forward for national defense in the digital age, the Air Force flew with artificial intelligence as a working aircrew member onboard a military aircraft for the first time Dec. 15. The AI algorithm, known as ARTUµ, flew […]
January 11, 2021 / Last updated : January 11, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Wired: Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection

Wired: Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection. “In their relentless pursuit of engagement and profits, these platforms created algorithms that amplify hate speech, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. This harmful content is particularly engaging and serves as the lubricant for businesses as profitable as they are influential. These platforms also enforce their terms […]
January 6, 2021 / Last updated : January 6, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

University of Illinois: Retracted scientific paper persists in new citations, study finds

University of Illinois: Retracted scientific paper persists in new citations, study finds. “A small portion of scientific papers are retracted for research that is in error or fraudulent. But those papers can continue to be cited by other scientists in their work, potentially passing along the misinformation from the retracted articles.”
January 4, 2021 / Last updated : January 4, 2021 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Facts won’t fix this: experts on how to fight America’s disinformation crisis (The Guardian)

The Guardian: Facts won’t fix this: experts on how to fight America’s disinformation crisis. “The consequences of Donald Trump’s repeated, baseless claims of voter fraud will come in several waves, researchers who study disinformation say, even if Trump ultimately hands over power and leaves the White House. And there is no quick or easy way […]
December 30, 2020 / Last updated : December 30, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Google Glass-like device could help treat people with memory problems: Report (BGR)

BGR: Google Glass-like device could help treat people with memory problems: Report. “The Google Glass project met a sad demise a few years ago, but its application is reaping rewards for the University of Otago in New Zealand where researchers have developed a Google Glass-like device that can help to treat Alzheimer’s disease.”
December 29, 2020 / Last updated : December 29, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Sapienza University of Rome: Valeteviatores, digitized Latin epigraphs become a historical video game

Sapienza University of Rome, and Google-translated from Italian: Valeteviatores, digitized Latin epigraphs become a historical video game. “The project, coordinated by the University of Navarra, aims to acquire 3D scans of a selection of Latin inscriptions preserved in various Roman cities, from Portugal to Rome, passing through France and Spain, which will then be edited […]