Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

We're really proud of the rapid growth of our Bookshare online library for people with print disabilities. We're up to more than 125,000 users, with over 95,000 books available, and our users are now accessing content at a rate of more than million downloads per year! What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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The Verge

JUNE 14, 2020

After four commercial publishers filed a lawsuit earlier this month, the Internet Archive ended its National Emergency Library program earlier than planned, the organization said in a blog post (via ArsTechnica ). It opened the “emergency” program in March , providing free access to 1.4

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Or file a DMCA notice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

For example, our Bookshare online library for the blind, uses several different social enterprises to do data entry and proofreading work on textbooks. The DDD student staff people work half days at DDD, proofing textbooks to make them accessible to students with print disabilities. We scan the books in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

The DIAGRAM Center team has also created an image data content model which will provide standards to define and enhance the efficacy and interoperability of accessible images as the project evolves. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

But for those with permanent or temporary disabilities, these companies are accused of violating Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by lacking the proper digital accommodations to enable access to their coveted online offerings. Everybody deserves to have that full and equal access to the world around them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

We have been helping blind and print disabled people gain access to books for over 17 years. Two recent experiences underscored different parts of this struggle to deliver access. It's great to see someone still using one of our products to access books for this length of time. They face barriers enough without adding more!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2019

Advantages of using premium web hosting: Disk write protection: authorized users are only allowed to make changes to the web server which keeps your WordPress files safe and secure. Uploads protection: WordPress files that allow your nonprofit’s team to upload files to the Media Library get an extra level of security to keep hackers out.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 26, 2023

Methods for efficient consumption of large files Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash Working with very large files can pose challenges to application developers related to efficient resource management and runtime performance. These challenges are exacerbated when the large files reside in a remote storage location.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It can be helpful to lead a planning process within your own organization that examines your organizational assets and access so you can translate them into benefits. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Welcome packet. Touch the work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next.

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Towards Data Science

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data Access API over Data Lake Tables Without the Complexity Build a robust GraphQL API service on top of your S3 data lake files with DuckDB and Go Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash 1. Likewise, we will need some ETL jobs that can handle and transform data files in S3 and load them into the database.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 17, 2024

Parquet vs ORC vs Avro vs Delta Lake Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash The big data world is full of various storage systems, heavily influenced by different file formats. It’s crucial to know which file format fits which scenario. It’s crucial to know which file format fits which scenario. So let’s get started!

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Earlier today, MacRumors reported that it is possible to run any iOS app you have purchased on an M1-based Mac , provided you can get access to the right file. Instagram is relatively small on the screen, but it also runs fine, you can post, and it seems to hook into the right photo library and camera permissions.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

But before that happens, you’ve got the chance to transfer over your music library, recommendations, purchased songs, and personal uploads to YouTube Music with just a few taps. On the main home screen, you should see a banner that says “Transfer your Play Music library.” Open YouTube Music. Just ignore that for now. Image: Google.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities. said Stevie. Thanks Stevie!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. a11y accessibility Bookshare Braille DAISY ebooks Global Literacy print disabilities Reading'

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Now, Adams says that he and his brother, Jake — a former software engineer at Branch Metrics with whom he co-founded the company — have begun selling many of their customers on Grain’s vision of shared libraries of information, too. “We’re creating a video meeting system of record for content,” says Adams.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

This reality changed when Frank found out about Benetech’s Bookshare accessible digital library for people with print disabilities. Frank’s story exemplifies the life-changing power of access to information and reading. I began a reading binge. Thanks so much for your help! This post originally appeared on the Benetech Blog.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Most of these apps are designed around the same principles and provide access to a huge music catalog. If youve used one to build up a library over the years, that one is most likely to be in tune with your musical tastes. It also gives quick access to several live radio stations from around the globe, which is great.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

model does not allow file upload and limits messages to 4096 tokens (roughly 4096 words) inclusive of both input and output. Using the free version, you cannot analyze your entire dataset at once, but must split the file into separate messages, each a maximum of 2000 words long. The Easy Steps Pull up ad library view.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities. Converting and delivering these accessible books was expensive and time consuming. With the old approaches, only a tiny fraction of print materials were made available in accessible formats. copyright law.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

These features include a Prompt Builder feature, which allows users to create their own directives for the AI assistant, and a Prompt Library, which includes suggested prompts from Glean, as well ones that a company has shared in its own prompt library. In October 2024 Blackbird.AI

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

An Insider Reveals How the Latest Hot Books Are Added to Bookshare’s Collection of Accessible Titles A Guest Beneblog by Liz Halperin After working for many years as a volunteer for Bookshare, I became a paid proofreader for the collection about two years ago. This freed up the pages which were placed in a fast scanner.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Norton Satellite from Symantec is a free app that scans your Facebook feed for malicious links, as well as your Dropbox and local files for malware. With Evernote , you can take notes on your Windows 8 desktop and then access them on your smartphone. File Management. Productivity. Quick Note is like a legal pad for your desktop.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But, I expect that 75% of the job will be about analyzing the legal issues from our programs, especially in our Global Literacy Program, which includes Bookshare, the largest digital library for the blind and dyslexic in the U.S., I was an expert witness in the case, and we’ve filed an amicus brief in the appeal. What’s next?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. The deal was: help people with disabilities that can't access books and don't hurt the economic interests of the publishers (and authors). copyright law. How do we know it's inadvertent?

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The Verge

MARCH 21, 2022

In addition, various content and malicious code can be embedded in freely distributed libraries used for software development. Since open-source libraries are fundamental to software development, a general loss of trust in their integrity could have knock-on effects for users in Russia and elsewhere.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2022

Ransomware — malware that prevents you from accessing your files unless you pay the hacker that infected your computer — has been an issue plaguing computer users and businesses for years. Switching on the “Controlled folder access” feature ensures that unauthorized apps can’t make changes to files in certain protected folders.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In an incident update , Slack said its services were “experiencing issues with file uploads, message editing, and other services.” Asana said the problems constituted a “ major outage ,” with “many of our users unable to access Asana.” Epic Games Store said “Internet services outages” were “affecting logins, library, purchases, etc.”.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

As more applications move to "the cloud," where they can be hosted online and accessed from anywhere, many nonprofits and libraries are wondering whether they should be moving their files, email, or other tech needs to hosted online parties as well. Register now and join us on December 6!

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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Preston pushed back, saying some of the files contained highly personal information and there was no reasonable way to make sure they were all removed from the laptop without wiping it completely. “If The connection will give them access to collaborative apps like Pages and Numbers that they might need to do their jobs.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Well, PyrOSM is build on Cython (C Python) and it uses faster libraries for deserializing OSM data as well as smaller optimizations like numpy arrays which allows it to process data fast. Let’s get into what this library can do! ? PBF Data Let’s talk a bit about the specific file format that OSM data comes in.

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InfoWorld

MAY 29, 2024

JetBrains has updated its Compose Multiplatform declarative UI framework, stabilizing the multiplatform resources API, upgrading support for iOS and Web targets, and introducing an experimental navigation library based on Jetpack Compose Navigation. And Compose Multiplatform now takes care of publishing the necessary files for each platform.

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

Getting emulators to work can be complicated , and accessing the BIOS and ROM files required to play games this way is legally murky. They arent necessarily ideal for emulation or playing the latest multiplatform titles; instead, they often have distinct game libraries. Engadget does not condone piracy.)

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