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How to Geek: “Are you using a VPN and wondering why your internet connection feels slower than it used to? I wondered the same thing, so I set out to measure just how much a VPN affected my internet speed at home. The results somewhat surprised me, though it made sense once I thought through …
The New York Times [no paywall]: “This year’s high-end models from Apple and Google raise the bar for mobile photography, but users should take the time to learn the settings and features. Smartphone photography has come a long way since the first iPhone’s single 2-megapixel camera in 2007. With phones now boasting multiple cameras with …
WSJ – via MSN w no paywall [Note – we have heard this mantra for decades….is change arriving in 2026?]: “Rita Gunther McGrath is an academic director in executive education at Columbia Business School and author of “Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen.” Is the billable hour about to …
404 Media: “As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library. Some libraries are now intentionally using iconic Blockbuster branding to recall …
Introducing Proton Sheets: Protect the data that drives your business “Proton Sheets is rolling out gradually, so if you don’t see it in your Drive account yet, it will appear soon. Spreadsheets are the backbone of modern businesses, used to plan budgets, manage inventory, supervise members, and organize proprietary data. This is why Excel and …
PopSci: “…To help raise awareness to just how bad it’s gotten, environmental engineer and artist Tega Brain created Slop Evader. After installing the extension on Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, users can employ it to search pre-AI archives on a handful of websites including Reddit and YouTube. “This sowing of mistrust in our relationship with …
“INTERTAPES is an updating collection of found cassette tapes from different locations. The audio fragments include: voice memos, field recordings, mixtapes, bootlegs and more.” Users may choose the country, state, date(s) of recordings. CATALOG FORMATS MAP LIST
“To better understand the U.S. media landscape, Pew Research Center has surveyed Americans over time about their news habits and attitudes. Time and time again, the youngest adults stand out from the crowd in their unique ways of consuming news and their views of the news media. This essay examines how the youngest group of …
The Public Domain Review: “At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose. Due to differing copyright laws around the world, there is no one single public domain — and here we focus on three …
LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 5 – The fifth in a series of articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici documenting what government resources, data and datasets been taken offline, censored or otherwise altered to block access and significantly …
The Atlantic – Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize – “The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process. After three years of doing essentially nothing to address the rise of generative AI, colleges are now scrambling to do too much. …
OSoMeNet is a tool that visualizes information spreading and sharing patterns on multiple social media platforms. How does OSoMeNet work? OSoMeNet uses search APIs provided by social media platforms (e.g. Bluesky and Mastodon) to generate diffusion and co-occurrence networks. The networks are visualized using Helios Web. Helios Web is a web-based library developed by Filipi …
