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TechCrunch: “The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than …
404 Media – “After months of discussion and outrage from residents, the city council of the tiny town of Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to immediately end its contract with the surveillance company Flock. In the aftermath of the vote, one of the dissenting council members crashed out and said he would be introducing measures to …
NiemanLab: “If you’re trying to get a handle on evidence from academic research about the state of local news, it’s hard to know where to start. The research is scattered — across disciplines from political science to economics to computer science; across universities; across paywalled journals. To some extent, it’s part of the academic job …
rip.so :: the digital graveyard “Here lie the messengers, the social networks, the browsers and the websites the internet forgot *** when was the last time someone said uh-oh on your ICQ ? *** dig up a name « search the catacombs » wander by decade
Seth Chandler: “Anthropic just rolled out Claude for Legal, and even if you’re buried taking, grading or just having recurrent nightmares about exams, this post deserves ten minutes. At least three things matter for the academy: a law-student plugin with a summa cum laude portfolio of skills; a free CourtListener connector that does traditional legal …
Popular – Digital Image Archives – scroll down to locate the list, organized by subject. You will be familiar with some of the entries, but others will turn on the light and guide you to images from the ‘past’ that continue to resonate. They are not AI generated, and include music, design, political slogans and …
Craig Silverman, Indicator: “Last month, Google announced Skills in Chrome, an easy way to create and save reusable prompts that can run in your browser. Skills load in the Gemini tab in Chrome, and you can summon them with just a couple of clicks. This makes them faster than a third-party tool (though potentially less …
TechCrunch: “Whether you like it or not, Amazon continues to put AI at the center of the shopping journey. The company announced Wednesday “Alexa for Shopping,” its new personalized AI shopping assistant, powered by Alexa+. Notably, the experience will replace Rufus, its generative AI shopping assistant that launched in 2024. According to the company, Alexa …
Take heart – the internet still exists. And you are on it now – as you read beSpacific and LLRX, so go out and discover all the other places, music, writing…enjoy. Terry Godier: “…The reason these systems survived is also the reason they are surviving the AI flood, and the reason they will probably outlive …
“Still Night. A painting you can play. This isn’t music played over a painting. The painting is the instrument. For 400 years, people have tried to match color and sound. Most assumed notes translated to hues. It doesn’t work that way. Research found something simpler. Brightness shapes how we feel sound, the same way it …
A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. Still missing your favourite? Come back on Friday to see which novels ranked among the highest on our list..
“Newspapers.com, GenealogyBank, NewspaperArchive, OldNews, Chronicling America … the list of historical newspaper websites goes on and on and on. Thanks to them, genealogists have access to a once-unimaginable number of digitized newspapers—in fact, so many publications in so many places that it can be hard to know where to look. Newspaper Finder, “A Database for …
