Day archives: May 31st, 2021

How The Tulsa Race Massacre Caused Decades of Harm

The Atlantic – “The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 was over in less than 24 hours, but the damage that the city’s Black citizens suffered went on for decades. Indeed, the full magnitude of the community’s economic loss is still coming into focus even on the centennial of the event—in part because new digital tools …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

CEO pay rises to $12.7M even as pandemic ravages economy

AP: “As COVID-19 ravaged the world last year, CEOs’ big pay packages seemed to be under as much threat as everything else. Fortunately for those CEOs, many had boards of directors willing to see the pandemic as an extraordinary event beyond their control. Across the country, boards made changes to the intricate formulas that determine …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

OECD Economic Outlook, May 2021

“Prospects for the world economy have brightened but the recovery is likely to remain uneven and, crucially, dependent on the effectiveness of public health measures and policy support, according to the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook. In many advanced economies more and more people are being vaccinated, government stimulus is helping to boost demand and businesses …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care

How fast is my internet

CNET:  “The next time your home internet connection is struggling to load a simple webpage, or Apple TV Plus keeps buffering while you’re binging that new series everyone is talking about, take a few minutes to troubleshoot what’s going on. A good place to start is by checking your internet connection’s speed.  Magnifying any connection …

Subjects: Internet

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 30, 2021

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 30, 2021 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Energy, Government Documents, Health Care, Privacy, Search Engines

EUIPO’s TMview database expands to Chinese market

“As of … the 19 May 2021, TMview will include trade mark data made available by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), taking the total number of trade marks in the search tool from 62 to over 90 million from 75 participating IP Offices. Over 32 million Chinese trade marks are now available in the …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark

The name game for coronavirus variants just got a little easier

STAT: “Do you have trouble keeping the names Covid-19 variants straight, and struggle to distinguish B.1.1.7 from B.1.351 or B.1.617.2? The World Health Organization wants to help. On Monday, it announced a new naming system it devised for so-called variants of interest and variants of concern, the forms of the SARS-CoV-2 virus with important mutations. …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Library Learning Analytics

portal: Libraries and the Academy, Library Learning Analytics: Addressing the Relationship between Professional, Research, and Publication Ethics Vol. 21, No. 3 (2021), pp. 417–423. Copyright © 2021 by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 21218. “The advent of and increasing interest in learning analytics among researchers, practitioners, and administrators alike has academic librarians questioning what …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Crypto Climate Accord

Make Crypto Green – “Surging demand for cryptocurrencies and accelerating adoption of blockchain-based solutions have highlighted a critical issue: the technology’s growing energy consumption and its impact on our climate. That’s why we’re working collaboratively with the crypto industry—including all blockchains—to transition to 100% renewables…Crypto Climate Accord Signatories are crypto market participants that make a …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Financial System