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Big Think: According to the CDC, 50 countries worldwide have drinkable tap water. But look closer, and the picture is more nuanced…So, which 50 countries are in the CDC’s clean tap water club? There’s most of Europe, excluding most of the Balkans, as well as most of the former Soviet states. Notable exceptions in the …
Emily Gorcenski: “…This year I found that answer. Put away the f**ing phone. My morning routine—and I promise I am not going to be one of those sociopathic grindset people with this—doesn’t simply involve not scrolling. It involves reclaiming that time to bring a sense of joy, curiosity, and comfort into my life. I get …
EFF: “The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has proposed a new “Personal Financial Data Rights” rule that will force your bank to make it easy for you to extract your financial data so that you can use it to comparison shop for a better offer, and switch to another bank with just a few clicks. This …
404 Media: “Earlier this week, friend of 404 Media Katie Notopoulos, who is a great journalist and internet knower, wrote an article for MIT Tech Review that you should read, called “How to fix the internet.” The article grapples with 40 years of internet history, Elon Musk, “hellsites,” AI, and disinformation. It ultimately comes to …
Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, MPH Ph.D an epidemiologist: “…It’s not an understatement to say that wastewater surveillance has transformed public health. (See my previous post on its pros and cons.) It picked up a SARS-CoV-2 wave before any other metric. We are now using it for flu, RSV, and even opioids. The potential is endless. Over …
Annenberg Public Policy Center: “Americans have less confidence in vaccines to address a variety of illnesses than they did just a year or two ago, and more people accept misinformation about vaccines and Covid-19, according to the latest health survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania. The survey conducted …
Make Use Of: “Key Takeaways Google Chrome’s new URL inspector feature checks for typos in URLs and suggests the correct website, helping users avoid error messages, broken links, scams, and phishing sites. The feature uses autocomplete suggestions based on keywords to predict the website users are trying to search for, making web navigation easier and …
Misinfocon.com: “Making use of my experience as a factchecker at news outlets and platforms with large audiences and communities, and with incubation support from Hacks/Hackers, MIT DesignX, and MIT Sandbox, I’ve developed News Detective, a platform that uses the power of crowds to factcheck the internet…”
404 Media: “…When Elon Musk began requiring people to pay steep fees to access the Twitter API earlier this year, he broke a series of tools used by researchers and archivists that could be used to accurately save tweets with metadata. We are now in a situation where the best way to archive “official” information …
Via LLRX – AI in Banking and Finance, October 31, 2023 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government reports and documents, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and …
Searchable database/visualization via AP: “On the morning of October 7, 2023, a day now seared into the collective memory of Israel, a brutal assault led by Hamas unfolded, casting a long, ominous shadow reminiscent of past atrocities. The tranquility of the dawn was violently disrupted as over 5,000 rockets rained down, coupled by horrifying acts …
Hollywood Reporter: “Artists suing generative artificial intelligence art generators have hit a stumbling block in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit over the uncompensated and unauthorized use of billions of images downloaded from the internet to train AI systems, with a federal judge’s dismissal of most claims. U.S. District Judge William Orrick on Monday found that copyright infringement …