Collaborate Disseminate
Novelist Dave Eggers has just published a sequel to his 2013 dystopian tale of a tech company called The Circle — in which a low-tech crusader now tries to destroy the most powerful tech company in the world.
Ars Technica quips that “When big te… Continue reading In New Sequel to ‘The Circle’, Dave Eggers Satirizes Algorithms Instead of Surveillance
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The largest public library system in the country has become the latest to eliminate all late fees. Effective immediately, the New York Public Library system will not charge fines on overdue materials, and a… Continue reading The Nation’s Largest Public Library System Is Ending Late Fees Forever
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amazon’s Kindle e-readers get new software updates regularly, and they’re mostly of the nondescript, invisible “performance improvements and bug fixes” variety. But the most recent operating system… Continue reading Amazon Gives Kindle E-Readers a Rare User Interface Overhaul
Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do. From a report:Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip t… Continue reading The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books
“According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies,” reports the Guardian, “with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit…”
As the chief of Stanford University’s dual diagnosis addiction clinic (which c… Continue reading Are Our Smartphones Making us Dopamine Addicts?
“According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies,” reports the Guardian, “with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit…”
As the chief of Stanford University’s dual diagnosis addiction clinic (which c… Continue reading Are Our Smartphones Making Us Dopamine Addicts?
Apple TV+ has released a nearly three-minute long trailer for its upcoming series based on Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books.
Ars Technica calls the trailer “stunning.”
A mathematical genius predicts the imminent collapse of a galactic empire, and he … Continue reading Will Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ Survive Its Transformation into a Streaming Series?
For years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? Or a complete waste of time? Vulture: On the spectrum of cyberattacks, this one wasn’t very complex. There was no malicious software or actual hackin… Continue reading The Mysterious Figure Stealing Books Before Their Release
The time has come for me to find a new home for my (paper) cryptography library. It’s about 150 linear feet of books, conference proceedings, journals, and monographs — mostly from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
My preference is that it goes to an educational institution, but will consider a corporate or personal home if that’s the only option available. If you think you can break it up and sell it, I’ll consider that as a last resort. New owner pays all packaging and shipping costs, and possibly a purchase price depending on who you are and what you want to do with the library…
Deprived of a new book for 10 years, fans are enhancing a screenshot in hopes of learning what will happen next in “A Song of Ice and Fire.” It’s worked before. Continue reading Fans Desperately Try to Decipher Blurry Page From ‘The Winds of Winter’