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MakeUseOf: “Where do you go when you need a quick translation to another language? A friend? Or a foreign language dictionary? You can also keep a handy browser extension if you need to translate words often. However, things can get challenging if you prefer not to install one, or if your company simply doesn’t allow …
Washington Post – “In honor of #EarthDay, enjoy free access to our entire site through April 22. Just sign up with your email address when prompted.” Washington Post – “Seeds of hope: How nature inspires scientists to confront climate change. Sarah Kaplan, one of The Post’s climate reporters, introduces a series of short essays from …
“Future Forum Pulse New data shows work-related stress and anxiety is skyrocketing among full-time office workers and those without schedule flexibility Read through the report by clicking the sections below, or download the full report as a PDF. Return-to-office policies are negatively impacting employee experience scores. As companies implement return-to-office policies, calling more employees back …
Vox: “…High-profile data breaches have been in the headlines for years. In 2013, Target lost the credit card, debit card, and other information of tens of millions of customers. In 2018, Marriott disclosed a data breach that impacted up to 500 million people; in 2020, it got hit again. In 2021, hackers got a bunch …
“The research ecosystem has been undergoing rapid and profound change, accelerated by COVID-19. This transformation is being fueled by many factors, including advances in technology, funding challenges and opportunities, political uncertainty, and new pressures on women in research. At Elsevier, we have been working with the global research community to better understand these changes and …
The Verge: “Google Docs could soon suggest ways to improve the quality of your writing in addition to fixing straightforward grammar and spelling errors, the company has announced. A purple squiggly line will appear under suggestions to help make your writing more concise, inclusive, active, or to warn you away from inappropriate words. These new …
“The goal of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) is to enable timely, effective decision-making to improve outbreak response using data, modeling, and analytics. To do so, CFA will produce models and forecasts to characterize the state of an outbreak and its course, inform public health decision makers on potential consequences of deploying …
Bloomberg: “Bosses are hellbent on getting their staff back into the office. It’s just that the rules don’t necessarily apply to them. While 35% of non-executive employees are in the office five days a week, just 19% of executives can say the same, according to a survey by Future Forum, a research consortium backed by messaging channel Slack. …
Reuters: “Luigi Lineri’s home workshop is covered in stones – tens of thousands of them. They resemble animal heads, human faces and other forms, and the artist and poet believes may have been shaped by prehistoric humans. Lineri has built his vast collection over the last 50 years, making his finds along the Adige river, …
The Mainichi: “A research team led by a University of Tokyo professor has created digital maps utilizing satellite images and other photos to show the reality of damaged areas in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion. Hidenori Watanave, information design professor at the University of Tokyo’s graduate school, said that by updating latest information online, internet …
Scientific American – “Studies suggest that appreciating beauty in the everyday may be just as powerful as a sense of overarching purpose….Many scholars agree that a subjectively meaningful existence often boils down to three factors: the feeling that one’s life is coherent and “makes sense,” the possession of clear and satisfying long-term goals and the …
Cyphert, Amy, A Human Being Wrote This Law Review Article: GPT-3 and the Practice of Law (November 1, 2021). UC Davis Law Review, Volume 55, Issue 1, WVU College of Law Research Paper No. 2022-02, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3973961 “Artificial intelligence tools can now “write” in such a sophisticated manner that they fool people into …
