Even a mini-blackout has an impact. You can’t even email your
congressman or send a nasty Tweet!
First world
problem? Fresno residents on day 17 of no internet after bus crash
causes outage
Some neighbors near Fresno Street and Sierra
Avenue in Northeast Fresno are on day 17 of no Wi-Fi, internet, phone
service or cable.
"It is a first world problem I know, but it's
just really inconvenient," Lori Meadors is a mom of three.
She says the outage is impacting her entire
family, especially the kids.
"We
had to take our kid to Starbucks to do homework, and our phone
doesn't work," she said.
The lack of service is the result of a
FAX bus crash that happened on March 10.
… "There is like four different stacks of
wires, and there's a man working on it now," she said. "And
he's able to restore one of the stacks, but the other three are
completely and rewire it from scratch."
Only 90? Are there any points we can all agree
on?
Without
federal action on data privacy, states forge ahead on their own
With the odds of the federal government passing a
data protection law dim, more state governments around the country
are considering their own measures aimed at protecting their
residents’ internet privacy. But such a decentralized push for
internet users’ rights will result in a soup of regulations that
vary from state to state, a data-privacy researcher told StateScoop.
… Little-Limbago said there are more than 90
separate pieces of legislation currently under discussion in
statehouses that would either enhance existing breach-notification
laws or implement new protections, with more likely on the way.
I’m pretty sure “awesome” is not the word I
would use. I may use #4 to write my Final Exams in Shakespearean
English. “Privacy is more than thou art.”
Artificial intelligence is already
everywhere, and its influence is growing. It can be hard to get
your head around exactly what AI does and how it can be deployed
though, which is why we present to you these five fun online
experiments—all you need is a web browser and a few minutes to see
some of the party tricks AI is already capable of.
1) Semantris
What does it
do? Recognizes words from your definitions
2) This Person Does Not Exist
What
does it do? Creates artificial faces of people who don’t
actually exist, using AI.
3) AutoDraw
What
does it do? Turns your amateur scribbles into polished line
drawings.
4) Cyborg Writer
What
does it do? Carries on sentences using AI from your initial
prompts.
5) Talk to Books
What
does it do? Gives you a natural language response to a
question.
Two of the top five
searches (bottom of the summary report) are Russian. Note that I
have not purchased a single “Bob for President” ad. So far.
Facebook
launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
Now you can search
Facebook
for how much Trump has spent on ads in the past year, which
Pages’ ads reference immigration or what a Page’s previous names
were. It’s all part of Facebook’s new
Ad Library launching today
that makes good on its promise to increase transparency after the
social network’s ads were used to try to influence the 2016 U.S.
presidential elections.
[A
summary report:
https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/report/?source=archive-landing-page&country=US
Perspective. When did
we start buying Apps? How much of the global economy did not exist
20 years ago?
Consumer
spending in apps to reach $156B across iOS and Google Play by 2023
Consumer spending in mobile apps across both
Apple’s App Store and Google Play will grow by 120 percent to reach
$156 billion worldwide by 2023, according to a new
report out today from app store intelligence firm, Sensor Tower.
The forecast estimates that both stores will more than double their
revenues during the next five years, with China, the U.S. and Japan
leading the way on iOS and the U.S., South Korea and Japan leading on
Google Play.
I call foul! The second
robot is moving to catch the banana.
Google's
banana throwing robot is highly accurate
It can’t hurt to
mention this to my students. Maybe there is one for techies?
Legal
Research Demystified: A Step-by-Step Approach
Voigt, Eric, Legal Research Demystified: A
Step-by-Step Approach (Table of Contents and Chapter 5 on Research
Plans) (March 18, 2019). Legal Research Demystified: A Step-by-Step
Approach (Carolina Academic Press, 2019), ISBN 9781531007836.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3354594
-“Legal Research Demystified guides first-year law students through
eight steps to research common law issues and ten steps to research
statutory issues. It breaks down the research process into
“bite-size” pieces for novice researchers, minimizing the
frustration associated with learning new skills. Every chapter
includes charts, diagrams, and screen captures to illustrate the
research steps and finding tools. Each chapter concludes with a
summary of key points that reinforces important concepts from the
chapter. The process of legal research, of course, is not linear.
This textbook constantly reminds students of the recursive nature of
legal research, and it identifies specific situations when students
may deviate from the research steps.
Legal Research Demystified differs from existing
research textbooks in several aspects. This textbook (1) sets forth
eight methods to identify and retrieve relevant secondary sources;
(2) contains a chart identifying binding cases in almost every
situation (e.g., state law issue in federal court); (3) discusses in
detail how to find cases by topic on Lexis Advance; (4) sets forth
six methods to find cases that interpret and apply relevant statutes;
(5) includes an entire chapter on confirming the validity of relevant
statutes, determining effective dates, and identifying the text of
all amendments; (6) has a chapter devoted to reading relevant
statutes critically; (7) explains in detail the differences between
using citators for cases and statutes; and (8) has three chapters on
finding persuasive authorities for common law and statutory issues.
This book’s companion website, Core Knowledge,
provides professors with multiple assessment tools. Students can
answer true-false and multiple-choice questions on Core Knowledge to
test their understanding of every chapter. Students will receive
immediate feedback. Additionally, students can complete interactive
research exercises on Core Knowledge. These self-grading online
exercises walk students through the research steps on Westlaw and
Lexis Advance, giving professors the option to “flip” the
classroom.”
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