Librarians’ nationwide struggle against excessive e-book prices has had little success. Even after short legislative successes, publishers’ tight renewal and loan rules keep e-book prices high, limiting libraries’ selection of popular titles and frustrating customers. According to Axios, publishers often mandate libraries renew e-book licenses every two years or after 26 lending, which they find …
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Deepfakes of Your Dead Loved Ones Are a Booming Chinese Business
Every week, Sun Kai engages in a video conference with his mother. He candidly discusses his career, the challenges he encounters as a middle-aged individual, and thoughts that he refrains from sharing with his spouse. Occasionally, his mother will offer a remark, such as reminding him to look after his well-being, given he is her …
A Simple Explanation of Cloud Computing
Many of the articles in this newsletter refer to “the cloud.” Feedback from several newsletter readers indicates that not everyone understands what a “cloud” is in the Internet world. I thought I would publish this introduction to cloud computing and also explain how cloud computing is used to provide digital images of census records to …