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Quartz at Work: “Checking email, responding to it, and remembering what’s been dealt with and what hasn’t creates a huge drag on many of our days. It also makes for an almost-constant distraction if an email client is open alongside other work windows, or if alerts are enabled. The people who felt most stressed shared …
Law Technology Today Video – “Making the decision to change software solutions is one that many law firms will encounter at some point along the way. The start of a new year provides a great opportunity for offices to make a change and start fresh, and with 2020 right around the corner, many lawyers are …
“DPLA is proud to release this preliminary version of The Impeachment Papers: A Compendium of Documents Related to the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump and The Report by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Russian Active Measure Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. These add to the work we started with our award-winning …
Washington Post – “Our privacy experiment found that automakers collect data through hundreds of sensors and an always-on Internet connection. Driving surveillance is becoming hard to avoid…Cars have become the most sophisticated computers many of us own, filled with hundreds of sensors. Even older models know an awful lot about you. Many copy over personal …
The Noun Project – Over 2 million curated icons, created by a global community….Icons for everything. Users may search or browse for icons and create an account, get icons, and identify favorites. Icons may be used under a Creative Commons License – either free or with a small fee. I had no idea there were …
The Atlantic – It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable: “Today, many of the largest mineral corporations in the world have launched underwater mining programs. On the west coast of Africa, the De Beers Group is using a fleet of specialized ships to drag machinery across the seabed in search of diamonds. In 2018, those ships …
nature: “Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach…Predatory journals are a global threat. They accept articles for publication — along with authors’ fees — without performing promised quality checks for issues …
“The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a coalition of 23 news organizations are urging a Delaware court to reject a defamation claim that could threaten the use of hyperlinks in news stories. In a friend-of-the-court brief, filed on Dec. 19 by Reporters Committee attorneys and David L. Finger of Finger & Slanina …
Longform recommends its top 100 articles [eclectic, insightful writing from a range of publications on issues of significant interest in 2019 – and beyond – grouped into the following categories: Top Ten Arts Business Crime Essays Health Media Politics Science and Nature Sports Tech World
LifeHacker – “If you’ve ever been using a website and wished it had a voice input, now you can add one yourself. Voice In is a Chrome extension that adds speech-to-text to most any website. That means you can do things like respond to Slack messages or send emails using your voice rather than typing …
