All articles tagged with #attribution
Originally Published 3 months ago — by Singletracks Mountain Bike News
Strava plans to comply with Garmin's API attribution requirements by November 1, despite previous pushback and a lawsuit, indicating potential app updates to include Garmin attribution in line with Garmin's brand guidelines, while continuing negotiations.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by CBS News
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the suspension of his presidential campaign with a quote attributed to Winston Churchill, "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts," which was found to be falsely attributed to Churchill by the Winston Churchill Project at Michigan's Hillsdale College and the International Churchill Society. The society also noted that the quote is often incorrectly attributed to Abraham Lincoln. DeSantis' campaign has not responded to requests for comment on the matter.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Techdirt
The Claudine Gay plagiarism scandal has sparked a debate on the relevance of plagiarism rules, with some arguing that the rules are hypocritical and unnecessary. The author contends that plagiarism rules are unjustified and that authors should not be required to attribute unless they believe it's deserved. They suggest that abandoning plagiarism rules would be beneficial and that punishing authors for using clichés or students for learning through plagiarism should be stopped.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by CNN
Extreme weather events such as droughts, storms, wildfires, and heat waves are becoming more intense and frequent due to climate change. Scientists are using a method called "attribution" to analyze whether a particular extreme event could have happened in a world without global warming. In some cases, the impacts of climate change are so clear that scientists conclude extreme weather events would have been all but impossible without global warming. The article lists six such events, including the Siberian heat wave of 2020 and the Pacific Northwest heat wave of 2021.