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Illustration by Valerie Morgan
Maryland Today: Why Is Everyone Joining Threads? (ft. Jen Golbeck)
Twitter’s new rival surges despite snags - a UMD social media expert explains why

Lakeland Road near Rhode Island Avenue circa 1965. Photo courtesy of Lakeland Digital Archive
A Community Archive Preserves the History of a 130-year-old African American Community
Lakeland is immortalized in digital form with help from MITH and INFO.
Library Journal: ALA Approves New Library Service Standards for the Incarcerated or Detained (ft. Victoria Van Hyning)
INFO Assistant Professor Victoria Van Hyning was among the group who oversaw the revision.
IEEE Spectrum: A Wearable Robotic Assistant That’s All Over You (ft. Ge Gao)
Calico is a little robot that can zip around your clothing to help you out.

Photo by Ant Rozetsky / Unsplash
New App to Empower Baltimoreans to Advocate for Better Public Transit
INFO and BSOS are working on a toolkit to help determine the pain points Baltimoreans experience on their commutes.
Researchers Use Deep Learning, VHR Satellite Imagery to Map Artillery Craters in Eastern Ukraine
INFO Assistant Professor Sergii Skakun examines detecting and mapping artillery craters in Eastern Ukraine.
(Video) 40th Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium
INFO professors and other HCIL experts discuss human-computer interaction technology during 40th annual event
