NEW RESOURCES
The Jewish Chronicle: New site launched for Shoah stories . "The National Holocaust Centre & Museum has created a new website which tells the story of four refugees from Nazi Europe, using some of the objects they owned. Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Journeys, set up jointly with the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and with sponsorship from the Arts Council, was launched on Tuesday to coincide with Refugee Week."
Scientific Data: A Global Building Occupant Behavior Database . "This paper introduces a database of 34 field-measured building occupant behavior datasets collected from 15 countries and 39 institutions across 10 climatic zones covering various building types in both commercial and residential sectors. This is a comprehensive global database about building occupant behavior."
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
CNET: Wondering Why Gmail Looks Different? New Design Rolls Out by Default. "Google is taking the next step to move people over to Gmail's new layout, which brings together Gmail, Chat and Meet in one unified interface. Starting Tuesday, some people will see Gmail's new look by default, the company said in a blog post."
TechTarget: Tableau adds data storytelling tool in latest update. "Six months after the analytics vendor's acquisition of Narrative Science comes Data Stories, a new tool aimed at enabling more employees within organizations to work with data."
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
MIT Technology Review: Social media filters are helping people explore their gender identity. "Oliver Haimson, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan who studies transgender identity and experiences online, says that for trans, gender-nonconforming, or gender-curious folk, filters can be a way to play with gender expression without the investment and skill that makeup requires or the time, hormones, and luck it takes to grow facial hair. He explains that filters are an important and widely used tool for identity exploration."
TechCrunch: Google and the Internet Archive are the first customers to gain commercial access to Wikipedia content. "Google is going to start paying for its use of Wikipedia information to help power its knowledge panels in Google Search. The search giant, along with the digital library the Internet Archive, are the first customers for the still relatively new commercial product launched by the Wikimedia Foundation — the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia. Its new service, Wikimedia Enterprise, offers access to Wikimedia content to companies that reuse and source Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects at a high volume."
SECURITY & LEGAL
Associated Press: Personal info on California gun owners wrongly made public . "The California Department of Justice on Wednesday acknowledged the agency wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six state-operated databases, a broader exposure than the agency initially disclosed a day earlier."
Entrackr: Indian government censors tweets critical of Indian internet censorship. "The government of India in 2021 ordered Twitter to take down tweets by the nonprofit Freedom House that discussed declining internet freedom in India. Twitter only disclosed this request on Sunday. The tweets promote Freedom House's Freedom in the World 2021 report. Entrackr has reviewed a copy of the disclosure by Twitter. This content is no longer visible in India, but much of it remains available on Twitter in other countries."
RESEARCH & OPINION
PR Newswire: University Of Maryland Medicine Launches Precision Health Study To Create Biggest And Most Diverse Research Database In State (PRESS RELEASE). "University of Maryland Medicine, the joint enterprise of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the University of Maryland Medical Center, and University of Maryland Medical System, today launched a landmark initiative called My Healthy Maryland Precision Medicine Research. The project aims to enroll 250,000 Maryland residents over the next decade who reflect the diversity of the state and want to play a pivotal role in helping researchers understand how genes and lifestyle affect an individual's health."
Inside Climate News: Rediscovered Reports From 19th-Century Environmental Volunteers Advance the Research of Today's Citizen Scientists in New York. "After unearthing 200-year-old seasonal observations from across New York, a team of researchers found a window into the past of the state's natural landscapes, and a key to understanding its future." Good afternoon, Internet...
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