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Labor Department Moves to Change Worker Classification Rule

Bloomberg Law: “The Biden administration has issued a highly anticipated proposal on how it will approach independent contractor status under federal wage law, its second attempt to undo a Trump-era standard that it says leaves workers vulnerable to misclassification. The proposal, released Tuesday by the US Labor Department, clarifies when workers should be classified as …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Legal Research

IMF World Economic Outlook October 2022

“Global economic activity is experiencing a broad-based and sharper-than-expected slowdown, with inflation higher than seen in several decades. The cost-of-living crisis, tightening financial conditions in most regions, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the lingering COVID-19 pandemic all weigh heavily on the outlook. Global growth is forecast to slow from 6.0 percent in 2021 to 3.2 …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Health Care

Do We Need More Technologies in Courts? Mapping Concerns for Legal Technologies in Courts

Barysė, Dovilė, Do We Need More Technologies in Courts? Mapping Concerns for Legal Technologies in Courts (September 6, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4218897 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4218897 “Courts use progressively more technologies, and there is no consensus on how much and what technologies would benefit or harm courts and in what ways. The analysis of the variety …

Subjects: Courts, Knowledge Management

Legal Research Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank: Free and Low-Cost Research Avenues

Carlton, Victoria and Hickman Pierson, Annalee, Legal Research Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank: Free and Low-Cost Research Avenues (July 1, 2022). 35 Utah Bar Journal, July/Aug. 2022, at 46., BYU Law Research Paper No. 22-21, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4166192 “While law students mostly depend on only LexisNexis or Westlaw for legal research, lawyers in …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

This common item is on the way out at California grocery stores

Mercury News: “For most grocery shoppers, they are as familiar as carts with wobbly wheels, aisles of cereal boxes and checkout stands full of juicy celebrity tabloids. But in California their days are numbered. Big rolls of thin plastic bags, often used only once to hold fruit and vegetables, or to put around packages of …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Legal Research, Legislation

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cybersecurity issues – October 8, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cybersecurity issues – October 8, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity 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, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Wireless Web

Consensus – Evidence-Based Answers, Faster

Consensus: “Consensus only searches through peer-reviewed scientific research to find the most credible insights to your queries. We recommend asking questions related to topics that have likely been studied by scientists. Consensus has subject matter coverage that ranges from medical research and physics to social sciences and economics. Consensus is NOT meant to be used …

Subjects: AI, Search Engines

AI eye checks can predict heart disease risk in less than minute, finds study

The Guardian – “An artificial intelligence tool that scans eyes can accurately predict a person’s risk of heart disease in less than a minute, researchers say.The breakthrough could enable ophthalmologists and other health workers to carry out cardiovascular screening on the high street using a camera – without the need for blood tests or blood …

Subjects: AI, Health Care

The Role of Alternative Social Media in the News and Information Environment

“In recent years, several new options have emerged in the social media universe, many of which explicitly present themselves as alternatives to more established social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – especially by opposing free speech restrictions they say are rife at those sites. These newer sites have created a small but …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

Law Informs Code: A Legal Informatics Approach to Aligning Artificial Intelligence with Humans

Nay, John, Law Informs Code: A Legal Informatics Approach to Aligning Artificial Intelligence with Humans (September 13, 2022). Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Volume 20, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4218031 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4218031 “Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities are rapidly advancing. Highly capable AI could cause radically different futures depending on how it is developed …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Most Visited Website in Every Country (That Isn’t A Search Engine)

Hostinger -“The World Wide Web has connected people and cultures from nearly every part of the globe. It’s given us instant access to news and media from every country and the tools to translate content from one language to another. But while it has introduced new forms and ideas on a global scale, the web …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media