Gender and Oncology, Google Maps, Bing, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, December 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES
Yale School of Public Health: New Database Documents Sex Differences in Cancer Biology, Risk Factors, and Treatments. “A groundbreaking new database could lead to vast improvements in precision oncology by documenting sex-based differences in cancer treatment efficacy, biomarkers, risk factors, and microbial influences across 71 cancer types. The database - created by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH), Yale School of Medicine (YSM), and international collaborators - addresses a significant gap in current research and demonstrates how biological sex can comprehensively impact cancer onset, progression, and therapeutic outcomes, the researchers said.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
MediaNama: Google Maps Expands Free Usage Limits for Developers. “Earlier this week, Google Maps announced that starting March 1, 2025, developers will receive free access to its products-including Maps, Routes, Places, and Environment Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs)-up to a monthly limit. This update applies globally and in India. In India, developers will gain access to up to $6,800 USD (over Rs 5,70,000) worth of free usage per month across all products, replacing the current $200 monthly credit.”
Search Engine Land: Bing officially removes cache link from search results. “Microsoft has officially removed the cache link and cache operator support from Bing Search. This comes after several months of testing, and after Google removed the cache link back in February 2024.”
USEFUL STUFF
Hongkiat: 10 Tools to Remove Image Background Online - Best of. “Are you still manually removing image backgrounds using Photoshop or other photo editing tools? Well, you shouldn’t be, at least not anymore. In this blog post, we have compiled a list of the 10 best online tools to Remove backgrounds effortlessly.”
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
BBC: ‘There was almost a utopian feeling to it’: How StumbleUpon pioneered the way we use the internet. “Before there was TikTok’s For You Page or the Newsfeed on Facebook, there was StumbleUpon - a website (and later a browser extension) founded in 2001 that worked by ushering users down online rabbit holes of semi-randomised websites. The platform helped cement a style of algorithmically-tailored content recommendation that continues to dominate the web. And though it shut down in 2018, StumbleUpon still has a grip on the people who grew up with it, coming to represent a different - and better - time when the internet felt vast, unknowable and delightful.”
Tubefilter: Was Sora trained on Marques Brownlee’s videos?. “You may remember Sora as the genesis of that devastatingly memed clip where OpenAI’s then-CTO couldn’t confirm whether or not the product was trained on YouTube videos. After the clip went viral, YouTube said it would investigate, but hasn’t released any findings to date. As for OpenAI, it still, to this day, will not give a direct answer when asked if Sora was trained on YouTube videos. Brownlee, however, suspects it might have been.”
University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Collaborative project aims to digitize Malone Center archives. “A new collaborative project aims to recover the lost stories of Lincoln’s Clyde Malone Community Center and the neighborhood it has supported since 1932. With $235,196 in grant funding from the Council of Library and Information Resources and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries and the Malone Center will embark on a three-year project to prepare, digitize and provide worldwide access to more than 6,000 unique, historically significant documents from the center.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Mashable: 5 holiday scams that could wreck your season . “As consumers part with their cash to fill stockings and spread cheer, scammers see countless opportunities for deception, theft, and fraud. The Federal Bureau of Investigation highlights some of their go-to tactics, including failing to ship merchandise you purchased, asking you to pay for items with a pre-paid gift card, and phishing for your personal information.”
Courthouse News: Photobucket users and subjects sue to stop images from being sold as deep fake fodder . “Photobucket users filed a federal class action against the image cloud company on Wednesday to prevent the sale of their pictures to biometric and generative AI companies - technologies that were the stuff of science fiction when many first signed up for accounts more than a decade ago.”
Krebs on Security: How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks. “A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at Russian-speaking customers, new research finds. Meanwhile, an investigation into the Vancouver street address used by this company shows it is home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges - none of which are physically located there.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
RFI: From ashes to innovation: 3D scanning powers Notre-Dame’s restoration. “The blaze, which destroyed the cathedral’s iconic spire and much of its roof, also caused extensive damage to its interior. The fire marked a tragic moment for one of the world’s most beloved Gothic landmarks, sparking a global outpouring of grief and an urgent commitment to rebuild. Advanced tools, including high-precision 3D scanners, have played a critical role in the restoration process.”
Cornell Chronicle: App creates time-lapse videos of the body for telemedicine. “A new app developed by Cornell researchers helps users record highly accurate time-lapse videos of body parts - a surprisingly difficult task and an unmet need in remote medicine and telehealth applications. A team led by Abe Davis, assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, created the app, called MeCapture.” Good morning, Internet…
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