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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 …
“U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) now makes more than 1,000 Congressionally Mandated Reports from 90 Federal agencies available on GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This total has doubled since GPO announced reaching 500 Congressionally Mandated Reports in October 2024 and has continued to grow …
Wall Street Journal Gift Article [why did this take so long to publish?] A WSJ analysis of thousands of posts found that the president uses the social-media platform to spread conspiracy theories and attack his adversaries. Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members …
Follow up to Trump Strategy Names Antifa Among “Major Types of Terror Groups” – See also Dean Blundell: “If you are an American who disagrees with Donald Trump, the President of the United States, you have now put your name on a list. He didn’t say your name. He didn’t have to. He had Sebastian …
The Guardian: “…In the early days of the Data Rescue Project, there was a mad dash to save data from any agency they thought Trump or Doge would target next. Volunteers would download every dataset from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) webpages as backup copies …
“NewsGuard today announced that it has upgraded its browser extension, (available for download here) to work inside ChatGPT and Google Gemini — displaying its nonpartisan trust scores and providing access to its “Nutrition Labels” next to every source those AI tools cite. The upgrade enables users to see, at a glance, whether the websites on …
PCMag: “Apple iPhones arrived in 2007, running an unnamed operating system. A year later, it was dubbed iPhone OS 1, which was pretty boring. By 2010, marketing got its act together and came up with “iOS,” just in time for the debut of version 4. In the previous decade and a half, iOS has undergone …
CNN: “As the war in Iran enters its tenth week with no clear end in sight, shipping traffic in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz has been completely reshaped, heavily disrupting global markets and supply chains for oil, natural gas, fertilizer and other essential products. Before the United States and Israel launched their …
