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University of Texas at Austin: AI Can Open Up Beds in the ICU. “By explaining factors that affect a patient’s length of stay, artificial intelligence can help hospitals improve scheduling for staff and patients.”
The post University of Texas at Austin: AI Can Open Up Beds in the ICU first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 11:26University of Texas at Austin: AI Can Open Up Beds in the ICUEngadget: Where to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets. “Every phone and laptop out there is a non-compostable mass of metal and plastic, and every new generation of them means more rare earth metals pulled out of the ground. Then there’s the human labor required to put them together, and the water and fuel used in manufacturing and shipping. It all adds up, but you can help bring that cost down a bit by recycling your old devices.”
The post Engadget: Where to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 11:21Engadget: Where to recycle your used and unwanted gadgetsLifehacker: The Best AI Object Erasers for Photos, Ranked. “This test covers three tools: Clean Up (in Apple Photos on iOS), Magic Eraser (in Google Photos on Android), and Object Eraser (in the Samsung Gallery app on One UI). These tools all appear as options when you open images in the relevant apps. For testing purposes, I’ve borrowed some great photos from Taan Huyn, Tolga Ahmetler, and Marek Piwnicki.”
The post Lifehacker: The Best AI Object Erasers for Photos, Ranked first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 11:15Lifehacker: The Best AI Object Erasers for Photos, RankedDuke University: Attend Artificial Intelligence in Higher Ed Webinar Series. “The full impact of Artificial Intelligence on higher education and in our classrooms is becoming clearer. An upcoming webinar series from the American Association for Colleges & Universities can help instructors, technologists, and administrators see the big picture. Hearing from colleagues at diverse institutions opens up a rich conversation that can help inform our conversations here at Duke. These webinars are free and open to the public.”
The post Duke University: Attend Artificial Intelligence in Higher Ed Webinar Series first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 11:10Duke University: Attend Artificial Intelligence in Higher Ed Webinar SeriesPsyPost: Erotic webcam viewers experience conflicting emotions and ethical tensions. “A new study exploring viewer experiences on erotic webcam sites reveals complex, often contradictory emotions among users, highlighting both positive and negative aspects for viewers and performers.”
The post PsyPost: Erotic webcam viewers experience conflicting emotions and ethical tensions first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 10:59PsyPost: Erotic webcam viewers experience conflicting emotions and ethical tensionsGizmodo: TikTok Will Try to Lull Kids to Sleep to Stop Endless Scrolling. “It’s 10pm, do you know where your children are? Odds are they are probably in their room scrolling on TikTok, but at least now you can rest assured that the app is taking steps to make them listen to lo-fi beats to chill to. TikTok announced that it will be introducing a new feature for users under the age of 16 that is designed to encourage them to wind down rather than keep watching.”
The post Gizmodo: TikTok Will Try to Lull Kids to Sleep to Stop Endless Scrolling first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 10:56Gizmodo: TikTok Will Try to Lull Kids to Sleep to Stop Endless ScrollingTom’s Hardware: Raspberry Pi powers briefcase-sized PiEEG ‘Bio Lab’ project. “Computer inputs are not just limited to keyboards and mice. We can use sensors to measure light levels, acceleration, and perhaps our brain! Ildar Rakhmatulin’s PiEEG project, last seen back in 2023, now comes in the form of the PiEEG Bio Lab with everything that you need to read and analyze your brain and body signals. The project is coming soon on IndieGoGo.”
The post Tom’s Hardware: Raspberry Pi powers briefcase-sized PiEEG ‘Bio Lab’ project first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 10:47Tom’s Hardware: Raspberry Pi powers briefcase-sized PiEEG ‘Bio Lab’ projectTubefilter: MrBeast’s investor pitch deck shows why he’s shifting his focus to Beast Industries. “The Verge got hold of a pitch deck that shares some financial information about the parent company MrBeast created to encompass all of his entertainment and retail ventures. Beast Industries is a growing company with a lot of promise, but MrBeast’s brand isn’t all about videos anymore. In fact, the deck shows that Feastables, the confectionary brand MrBeast launched in 2022, is now outearning his YouTube operation.”
The post Tubefilter: MrBeast’s investor pitch deck shows why he’s shifting his focus to Beast Industries first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 10:45Tubefilter: MrBeast’s investor pitch deck shows why he’s shifting his focus to Beast IndustriesKrebs on Security: Microsoft: 6 Zero-Days in March 2025 Patch Tuesday. “Microsoft today issued more than 50 security updates for its various Windows operating systems, including fixes for a whopping six zero-day vulnerabilities that are already seeing active exploitation.”
The post Microsoft: 6 Zero-Days in March 2025 Patch Tuesday (Krebs on Security) first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 10:42Microsoft: 6 Zero-Days in March 2025 Patch Tuesday (Krebs on Security)Ars Technica: X’s globe-trotting defense of ads on Nazi posts violates TOS, Media Matters says. “Media Matters for America (MMFA) has a plan to potentially defuse Elon Musk’s ‘thermonuclear’ lawsuits filed so far in three cities around the world, which accuse the nonprofit media watchdog organization of orchestrating a very costly X ad boycott. On Monday, MMFA filed a complaint in a US district court in San Francisco, alleging that X violated its own terms of service by suing MMFA in Texas, Dublin, and Singapore.”
The post Ars Technica: X’s globe-trotting defense of ads on Nazi posts violates TOS, Media Matters says first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 10:35Ars Technica: X’s globe-trotting defense of ads on Nazi posts violates TOS, Media Matters saysThe Conversation: ‘Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work’: how AI can undermine peer review. “My research focuses on ensuring trustworthy evidence is used to inform policy, practice and decision making. I often collaborate with groups like the World Health Organization to conduct systematic reviews to inform clinical and public health guidelines or policy. The paper I had submitted for peer review was about systematic review conduct. What I noticed raised my concerns about the growing role artificial intelligence (AI) is playing in the scientific process.”
The post ‘Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work’: how AI can undermine peer review (The Conversation) first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 10:17‘Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work’: how AI can undermine peer review (The Conversation)Hackernoon: Need to Buy Plan B or an HIV Test? Facebook Already Knows About It. “Looking for an at-home HIV test on CVS’s website is not as private an experience as one might think. An investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News found trackers on CVS.com telling some of the biggest social media and advertising platforms the products customers viewed. And CVS is not the only pharmacy sharing this kind of sensitive data.”
The post Hackernoon: Need to Buy Plan B or an HIV Test? Facebook Already Knows About It first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 10:13Hackernoon: Need to Buy Plan B or an HIV Test? Facebook Already Knows About ItarXiv: Comparing User Activity on X and Mastodon. “The ‘Fediverse’, a federation of decentralized social media servers, has emerged after a decade in which centralized platforms like X (formerly Twitter) have dominated the landscape. The structure of a federation should affect user activity, as a user selects a server to access the Fediverse and posts are distributed along the structure. This paper reports on the differences in user activity between Twitter and Mastodon, a prominent example of decentralized social media.”
The post arXiv: Comparing User Activity on X and Mastodon first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 10:07arXiv: Comparing User Activity on X and MastodonUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Lazarus Project to shine a new light on oldest map in UWM collection. “A worldwide audience will soon get a better look at the subtleties of one of UWM’s most spectacular artifacts. The Leardo Mappamundi, a hand-drawn map of the world from 1452, is one of the star items in the collection of the American Geographical Society Library, which has been housed at UWM for nearly 50 years.”
The post University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Lazarus Project to shine a new light on oldest map in UWM collection first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 10:02University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Lazarus Project to shine a new light on oldest map in UWM collectionKorea Times: Government to introduce website tracking vacant homes nationwide. “A new online platform will allow users to easily view the distribution of abandoned homes across the country and explore ways to repurpose them. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on Tuesday that it will launch a website called ‘Binjibae,’ which roughly translates to ‘Love for Vacant Homes,’ in partnership with the Korea Real Estate Board.”
The post Korea Times: Government to introduce website tracking vacant homes nationwide first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.12.3.2025 10:00Korea Times: Government to introduce website tracking vacant homes nationwide<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/@researchbuzz_firehose" rel="ugc">@researchbuzz_firehose</a> Set aside South Korea's problems on monopoly, this should be welcome by Linux community as it contributes growth to Linux dev.
10.12.2024 11:31Comment on The Register: South Korean web giant Naver creates its own Linux distro by :vim: LittleClover :archlinux:In reply to <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2023/06/01/find-local-news-with-nothing-but-a-street-address-streetscoop-local-news-search/comment-page-1/#comment-10927">marshall</a>. Once you have the search, you can refine it. I considered creating date-limited Google searches, but some searches have so few results I was afraid I would eliminate too much that way. Also, once you have the search you can save it as a Google Alert (either email or RSS) which mostly guarantees fresh content after that, yeah?
1.6.2023 18:40Comment on Find Local News With Nothing But A Street Address: StreetScoop Local News Search by ResearchBuzzVery cool, but the results are .... dated. :-( Running down the first page of results, I see (in the order that Google presented them): 2019, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2016, (no date), (no date), 2019, 2021, 2022, 2021, 2022, 2020, (no date), 2016, .. and so on.
1.6.2023 17:38Comment on Find Local News With Nothing But A Street Address: StreetScoop Local News Search by marshallWelcome to the End of Discourse. I don't blame Gannett; I have a hard enough time moderating a neighbourhood Facebook group! The general public has lost the ability to engage. Sad.
10.2.2023 06:28Comment on Poynter: Gannett ends online comments for a majority of its news sites by Kim Westlake-LifeI think that the apostrophe was in decline long before social media https://st-eutychus.com/tag/apostrophe-usage/
15.11.2021 22:33Comment on WION: Social media may lead to demise of apostrophe, suggest researchers by Celia WalterIn reply to <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2021/08/01/smashing-magazine-color-tools-and-resources/comment-page-1/#comment-10808">Celia Walter</a>. I'm a two-finger typist. My mother said that I sound like a chicken when I type. Peck, Peck, Peck.
2.8.2021 15:18Comment on Smashing Magazine: Color Tools And Resources by Celia WalterA Parade of 2,000 Ducks Keeps a South African Vineyard running https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/duck-pest-control
1.8.2021 23:19Comment on Cork: How sheep and goats uncovered hidden headstones (BBC) by Celia WalterThanks very much, I fixed it. I think I need to replace my keyboard; it's double-pasting sometimes. (I learned to touch-type on a manual typewriter and I am *very* hard on keyboards.)
1.8.2021 23:17Comment on Smashing Magazine: Color Tools And Resources by ResearchBuzzThe link is dead. It should be this, I think. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/07/color-tools-resources/
1.8.2021 23:14Comment on Smashing Magazine: Color Tools And Resources by Celia WalterReading this article reminded me of my school days in the 1960s. Our poetry book contained the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens", the poem begins "The king sat in Dunfermline town drinking blude-red wine"... I think the spelling "blude" is why the poem sticks in my mind.
1.4.2021 17:00Comment on The Courier: Dunfermline heritage gem looks to take its place on the Fife tourism trail by Celia WalterI still visit some of the existing forums. I prefer them over Facebook and Twitter.
28.12.2020 15:55Comment on The Week: How to bring back the old internet by agwildermanIn reply to <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2020/11/16/cosmopolitan-doctors-genius-hack-to-stop-your-face-mask-from-slipping-down/comment-page-1/#comment-10790">richardjoly</a>. Oh heck. Fixed. Thanks!
17.11.2020 01:24Comment on Cosmopolitan: Doctor’s genius hack to stop your face mask from slipping down by ResearchBuzzURL goes to wrong place ;-)
17.11.2020 01:22Comment on Cosmopolitan: Doctor’s genius hack to stop your face mask from slipping down by richardjolyI saw this too! Was also happy to see scientists and mathematicians embracing her questions! https://mathsux.org/
8.9.2020 01:57Comment on The Conversation: Is mathematics real? A viral TikTok video raises a legitimate question with exciting answers by Math SuxThat is a beautiful contribution to his homeland.
4.8.2020 23:37Comment on PBS: Writer Milan Kundera donating archive to Czech library by Flatliner Books