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Broadband Genie via telecompetitor: “The United States ranks thirty-second in the world on internet affordability, according to new research from Broadband Genie, a provider of data about broadband services. Broadband affordability is defined by the percentage of a country’s average salary that would need to be spent to cover the average cost of internet connectivity. …
Public Interest Research Group – Lucas Gutterman: “Manufacturers lock us into buying ink cartridges at exorbitant prices. There are simple steps to end the ink trap… You might question if home printers are relevant, but 47% of American households still have one and our country spends more than $21 billion on ink cartridges per year.* …
Quartz: “…Shadow libraries are online databases that provide access to millions of books and articles that are out of print, hard to obtain, and paywalled. Many of these databases, which began appearing online around 2008, originated in Russia, which has a long tradition of sharing forbidden books, according to the magazine Reason. Soon enough, these …
Quartz: “Artificial intelligence isn’t simply changing how we do our jobs: It’s also deciding whether we get jobs at all. Companies are increasingly incorporating algorithmic tools into their hiring processes, from software that reads our resumes to AI bots that score our first interviews. Now in New York City, new legislation is being used to determine …
“In July 2023, real-time Air Quality information is available for than 50,000 stations in 2000 major cities from 132 countries, thanks to the huge effort from the world EPAs (Environmental Protection Agencies). There are currently more than 50,000 known air quality monitoring stations in the world. In order to keep a high level on consistency, …
Bloomberg [alt free link]: “Mastercard Inc. is selling a new artificial intelligence-powered tool that helps banks more effectively spot if their customers are trying to send money to fraudsters. Nine of the UK’s biggest banks, including Lloyds Banking Group Plc, Natwest Group Plc and Bank of Scotland Plc, have signed up to use the Consumer …
Yale School of Management – Greg Feldberg and Carey Mott | July 6, 2023: “The FDIC could have saved $13.6 billion in the recent failures of three large banks if regulators had earlier held the banks to the total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) standard, based on reasonable assumptions. Over the past few months, US regulators resolved …
FMinus: “Companies and organizations that are supposed to be on the right side of the environmental movement too often hire compromised lobbyists. Search our database to find out who’s hiring who—and whether or not their track record is consistent with their values. [Search by State or Search by Client] Launched in July 2023, F Minus …
Financial Times [alt free link]: “Financial institutions often did not understand the models they were using to predict the economic cost of climate change and were underestimating the risks of temperature rises, research led by a professional body of actuaries shows. Many of the results emerging from the models were “implausible,” with a serious “disconnect” …
Quartz: “An association of the UK’s leading universities has signed a raft of guiding principles on the ethical use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) among its students and staff, addressing the increasingly common use of the technology in academia. Vice-chancellors of all 24 Russell Group universities that include the University of Oxford, the London School …
Webinar – Data Librarianship; Richard Huffine (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation); Friday, July 7. 2023; 2:00-3:00p.m. (EDT): Register to attend the live training webinar, “Data Librarianship.” Webinar: GovInfo API Overview and Search Service Preview – Register to attend the live training webinar, Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (EDT) Recording and …
“The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has issued a public consultation on revisions to the Core principles for effective banking supervision (“Core Principles”). The Core Principles are the de facto minimum standards for the sound prudential regulation and supervision of banks and banking systems. They are universally applicable and accommodate a range of banking systems …
