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Make Use Of: “Phone fraud, along with spam calls, is growing in popularity and frequency day by day. Scammers use various spoofing methods to trick people into picking up their calls and acquiring their valuable personal information. Knowing how scammers spoof phone numbers can help you stay protected from nuisance calls. Read on to learn how …
Make Use Of: “We know about the various streaming services that let you watch live TV. But what about standalone TV channels? Is it possible to watch free internet TV channels from around the world? In this article, we’ll help you find the best IPTV services on the web. Every channel on the list has …
Business Wire – “…With 206 sessions and 196 speakers, the conference provided an opportunity for beginners and experts to learn from many of the largest organizations in the world, and hear from the people solving some of the biggest database challenges. Percona Live ONLINE 2021 was our biggest and best conference yet,” said Peter Zaitsev, …
Law Sites: “A first-of-its-kind tool introduced last year to automate the drafting of litigation briefs has been named new product of the year for 2021 by the American Association of Law Libraries. The product, Compose, introduced in February 2020 by legal research company Casetext, helps attorneys automate the creation of the first draft of a …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – “Today, U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), Chairwoman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Rules and Administration, released a bipartisan report on the security, planning, and response failures …
Report issued by Plastic Odyssey – Published on June 8, 2021: “…No, plastics that pollute the ocean cannot be collected by boats – The reason is that out of the 200 million tons of plastic waste in the sea, only 0.6% (1 million tons) is on the surface. There is a lot of plastic in …
“The Library of Parliament, in collaboration with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, is pleased to provide access to Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources, a free searchable database of digitized versions of parliamentary publications from the 1st Session of the 1st Parliament (1867) until coverage at ourcommons.ca and sencanada.ca begins. The publications that are made available are: …
LawSites: “As companies plan for safely returning to the office, two new resources — including one that is free — are available to help legal professionals advise them with access to comparative federal and state legal requirements and case law.One of these new back-to-office resources is an expansion of the COVID-19 State & Federal Compare …
“ProPublica has obtained a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years. The data provides an unprecedented look inside the financial lives of America’s titans, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg. It shows not just their …
Slaw, Omar Ha-Redeye “…The site has been used extensively in litigation, in a wide variety of contexts. It has been used to assess the duty to mitigate damages in the employment contexts, the alleged (but denied) basis for discrimination in human rights, juror misconduct due to independent research by looking up the accused’s profile, imputing income …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 6, 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 increasingly …
Matthew Reidsrow is the Web Services Librarian at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. His research interests are user experience, usability, online privacy and security, and design ethics. Library Journal named him a “Mover and Shaker…” His new book is New Book: Masked by Trust: Bias in Library Discovery: “Library discovery systems struggle with …
