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NewsLink Spotlight |
| What's New With Amazon |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| Amazon has had a busy 2018 … well, it's always busy. It's Amazon. The president has continued to complain about the company, and Gizmodo speculates that his executive order calling for a review of the U.S. Postal Service's practices is another way to attack Amazon. There are reports of employee mistreatment, questionable (loose) associations with Breitbart and the National Rifle Association (NRA), and more controversies: pressuring its tenants in Seattle, ignoring scams in CreateSpace, and mismanaging the Kindle Store. |
Weekly News Digests |
| Microsoft Trust Center Offers Resources on GDPR Compliance |
| The Microsoft Trust Center has a section on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that is designed "to help you focus on your core business while efficiently preparing for the GDPR." |
| Senate Committee on the Judiciary Passes Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act |
| The Copyright Alliance praised the Senate Committee on the Judiciary for passing the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act (S. 2559) by a vote of 20-0. |
| OCLC Blog Explores Intersection Between Wikipedia and Libraries |
| Writing on OCLC's blog Next, OCLC Research senior program officer Merrilee Proffitt presents three reasons why libraries and Wikipedia need each other. ... |
| NISO Plans New Project on Scholarly Communication |
| NISO (National Information Standards Organization) voting members "approved a new project to develop a common means to easily transfer manuscripts between and among manuscript systems, such as those in use at publishers and preprint servers." |
| W3C Publishes Updated Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile |
| The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released a new version of its Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile, which shares the technologies the organization has developed that increase the capabilities of web applications, especially with regard to mobile usage. |
NewsBreaks |
| Here Come the Replicants: Google I/O and the Future of AI |
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by Justin Hoenke
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| If Google has something to say about it, the world portrayed in Denis Villeneuve's 2017 film Blade Runner 2049 may not be too far away from being real life. ... Google I/O 2018, the tech juggernaut's annual developers conference, was laser-focused on a future when AI and digital assistants are at the front and center of our daily lives. |
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