BlogFlockMozilla Blog: Data War goes digital: Firefox’s card game is now online. “Billionaire Blast Off started with a simple premise: send billionaires into space and have fun doing it. With Data War, we created a fun and often chaotic game where you compete to win a one-way ticket to…
ZDNet: Use Google Play? You might get a cash payout from this $700 million settlement soon. “If you made a purchase on the Google Play Store for an app or in-app content between 2016 and 2023, including subscriptions, ad-free upgrades, and game-specific currency, you might be getting some money…
Divernet: War Log maps out 1,000+ Baltic shipwrecks. “A new open-access database called the War Log has been released, recording the many forgotten but often well-preserved historic Swedish warships that sank in storms and battles or were scuttled in the Baltic Sea.”
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University of North Carolina: UNC-Chapel Hill study shows AI can dramatically speed up digitizing natural history collections. “A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers shows that advanced artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs), can accurately determine the locations where plant specimens were originally collected, a process known…
BBC: Failed Sarah Ferguson-backed app received £1m taxpayers’ money. “A lifestyle app backed by Sarah Ferguson received more than £1m of taxpayers’ money but collapsed without ever launching a product, according to documents filed this week.”
The post BBC: Failed Sarah Ferguson-backed app received £1m taxpayers’ money first appeared…Courthouse News Service: Federal judge largely sides with DOJ in finalizing remedy for Google search monopoly. “A federal judge on Friday released the final terms of a remedial plan meant to address tech giant Google’s monopoly over internet search, just over three months after ruling the company can keep…
Georgia State University: New Study Explains Why People Fall for Fake News . “Researchers from Georgia State’s Robinson College of Business, Kennesaw State University, and the University of Tennessee have developed a model that explains how emotional cues, rather than accuracy, shape the way we consume and share news on…
Indianapolis Public Library: The Indianapolis Public Library Preserves More Than Two Decades of Indiana’s Arts Heritage with Arts Indiana Digitization Project. “Originally launched in 1979 as Arts Insight and concluding publication in 2001 as Arts Indiana, the magazine celebrated and brought together the state’s literary, performing, and visual arts.…
Search Engine Land: Google’s Year in Search 2025: These trending topics spiked big. “Searches starting with ‘tell me about…’ jumped 70% from 2024 to 2025, while ‘how do I…’ queries hit an all-time high with a 25% year-over-year increase, Google said.”
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