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Tell us yourfavourite new thingsat twitter.com/webusermagazine 27 Nov-10Dec 2019^7

talktotransformer.com
BackedbyElonMusk,OpenAIcanstudyasmall
amountoftextandcreatealargedocumentbased
onwhatitreads.Youcantesttheneuralnetwork
bytypinginthetextboxorchoosinganexample,
beforewatchingasitcreatescoherentsentencesa
wordatatimeusingalanguagemodelcalledGPT-2.

FollowtopicsonTwitter

twitter.com

Ratherthantryingtokeepupwith

thelatestnewsbyfollowing

individualsonTwitter,youcannow

followtopicsinstead.Searchfora

subject(therearemorethan3 00 )

andchooseFollowintheresults.

RemoveFacebookshortcuts

http://www.facebook.com

Facebooknow lets youmanageits

navigat ionoptions in theAndroid

and iOSapps. Tapand hold an icon

(suchasMarketplace or Watch) to

remove it from theshortcutsbar

or turn offthe notification dots.

SearchTheGuardianrecords

bit.ly/guardian4 89

TheGuardianNews&Media

Archive’s recor ds relate to itsonline

presence from 1995until 2009.Use

termssuchas“guar dian online” for

written descrip tions of documents,

butyou’llneed to makean

appo intmentand visitthe paper’s

Londonofficetoviewthem.

http://www.wikipedia.org
Althoughthewebisafountof
knowledge,muchoftheworld’s
wisdomiscontainedinbooks.Just
visitWikipediaandyou’llseethat
lookingup
manyofits
sources
involvesa
triptothe
library.
Withthisin
mind,the
Internet
Archive
hasteamedupwithWikipedia,letting
visitorsclickacitedsourcetoviewan
onlinecopyofareferencedbook.So
far,1 30 ,0 00 Wikipediareferenceslink
to 5 0,0 00 digitisedbooks,each
shownaspreviews.Youcan‘borrow’
thefullversionsforalimitedtime,and
theInterne tArchive planstodigitise
another four mi llio nphysicalbooks
overthe next fewyears.

bit.ly/bombing 489

WhenThe

National

Archives

announced

thelaunch

ofaSecond

WorldWar

air-raid

mapusing

datafromitscollection,therewasso

muchdemandthatitwasforced

offline.CreatedbyDrLauraBlomvall,

ahistorianfromtheUniversityofYork,

theBombingBritainmappinpoints

thelocationofmorethan 3 2, 000

GermanairraidsontheUKbetween

1939 and 194 5,drawingon6,5 00

pagesofdailyreportscompiledby

wartimeintelligenceofficers.Clicking

thepinsshowsmoreinformation,

suchasthebombinglocation,timeof

attack andthe numberof casualties.

Youcan also learn more aboutthe

map,dataand methodology.

coastal.climatecentral.org
Thisinteractive map uses information
taken fr om airborne laser instruments
to show therevisedestimates of our
planet’sriskofcoastalflood ing. Gr ant
it access to yo ur location andyou can
switch between previous predictions
andalter theprojections,including by
year and pollutio n, with allland
projectedtobebelow theannual
floodlevelin2 050highlight ed in red.

Have abot complete

your text

Read books cited

on Wikipedia

View aWW

air-raid map

Seewhere land is likely to flood

We pick the 10 bestthings you mustdoonthe web this fortnight

NEWVOICE

COMMANDS

ApplyforaMcJob

ApplyingforajobviaGoogle

Assistant(andAlexa)issomething

ofaworld-first.Say:“HeyGoogle,

Talkto McDonald’sApplyThru”

andanswersomebasicquestions.

Playsongsfrom

YouTubeMusic

UsingSiriiniOS 1 3,youcansay

“Play[song]onYouTubeMusic”

to streamthatsongontheservice.

It’llaskforpermissiontoaccess

theapp’sdatathefirsttime.

InteractwithBBCNews

Anew interactivenews

servicelaunchedbytheBBClets

youlistentothelatestheadlines

(“Alexa,givemeBBCNews”).You

canthen“skip”orgetbackground

infobysaying“morefromtheBBC”.