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MakeUseOf: “I’ve always known Google had a lot of information on me, but “a lot” is vague. I wanted to see the receipts. That’s when I stumbled upon a tool hidden in plain sight: Google Takeout. It gave me a way to download my data directly from Google’s servers, neatly packaged for my inspection. Google …
Dean Blundell – “The Smithsonian is not one museum, and it isn’t a partisan project. It’s the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex: 21 museums, the National Zoo, and a network of research centers. Created by Congress in 1846, it receives federal support but is governed independently, with a public mission to collect, conserve, …
Fortune: “Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line. The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat. Despite the rush …
MakeUseOf: “Your smartphone camera is good for far more than snapping yet another overly flattering shot of your lunch. It’s a surprisingly powerful tool that can make your day-to-day life easier, more efficient, and occasionally even safer…Your smartphone camera is good for far more than snapping yet another overly flattering shot of your lunch. It’s …
The Atlantic [no paywall] – “Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work. But nobody thought it would happen this quickly. Three years later, the AI transformation is just about complete. By the spring of 2024, almost …
PCMag – “How awful does it feel to open a digital photo and not remember anything about it? The good news is that you can help yourself avoid that experience by organizing your pictures. And contrary to popular belief, that process doesn’t have to be a pain. Below, we share a super simple way to …
Kiwix is a non-profit organization and a free and open-source software project dedicated to providing offline access to free educational content. The name “Kiwix” is a play on the word “Wiki” as it represented our initial goal of making Wikipedia accessible offline. Kiwix is an offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or …
Death of the Billable Hour: Legal’s $900B AI Repricing – Ethan Batraski. Aug 12, 2025. “The legal industry’s last great inefficiency is ending. How AI-native firms will replace billable hours with outcome-based pricing at scale. The legal industry represents one of the last great market inefficiencies in the modern economy. While every other sector discovered …
PCMag: The new National Public Data site has an opt-out form to delete your profile data. However, many users are likely unaware of such an option, enabling these type of sites to continue trafficking their information. Here’s how to delete your data: Search your name on nationalpublicdata.com When you find your profile, click View Full Profile Copy …
“Coming Soon: The Interactive GenAI Legal Hallucination Tracker — Sneak Peek Today! August 10, 2025 by Jenny Wondracek – “If you follow me on LinkedIn or spoke with me at AALL, you’ve probably seen me teasing this project like it’s the season finale of a legal tech drama. Well, the wait is (almost) over — …
Vox – no paywall: “Here’s a picture of what life looked like at the turn of the millennium: We couldn’t stop gossiping about the extramarital affairs of the scandal-ridden president of the United States; we rented movies from Blockbuster and showed off our vast CD collections; we waited patiently for modems to connect us to …
TechCrunch: “Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” in the U.S. and India, which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section of Google’s search results. Enabling this feature means you will see more content from the sites you like, …
