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Drones Tackle Shark Safety on New York's Beaches
Safety officials at New York's Jones Beach are using drones to monitor for potential human-shark interactions.
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Cutting Down on Instagram, TikTok Makes Teens Feel Better About Weight, Appearance, Says Study
Researchers found reducing time on social media could improve teens' self-esteem and body image.
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Why Don't You Have A Self-Driving Car Yet?
The biggest reason that "it's taking so long" is that it's hard.
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Putting 3D Printers to Work in Ukraine's War Zone
Entrepreneurs in Poland are rushing three-dimensional printers to Ukraine for the manufacture of defensive equipment.
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Google Chrome—Emergency Security Update For 3.2 Billion
Google routinely restricts in-depth information until a majority of users have had the chance to apply the update, which will be rolled out in the near future. ...
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Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Has Searched A Name, Address, Telephone Number
The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally unsealed court document shows.
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Lack of Access to Computer Science Resources, Not Lack of Interest, Negatively Impacts Students from Underrepresented Groups
A Gallup study found that at U.S. public and private schools that offer computer science classes, 68% of students are interested in them.
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U.S.-Born Computer Professionals Earn Far More Than Other U.S. Workers
A new study found that U.S.-born information technology professionals make much more money than peers in other fields.
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NVIDIA Completely Re-Imagines The Data Center For AI
It is all about tighter integration with memory, CPUs, and accelerators for trillion-parameter AI models.
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How DOE Researchers Are Using AI, Robots to Design the Successor to Lithium-Ion Batteries
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Center for Energy Storage Research are using artificial intelligence and robots to design an organic redox-flow...
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Battery-Free IoT: These Tiny Printable Computers Harvest Energy From Radio Waves
The Wiliot Internet of Things tag is a printable chip that harvests energy from ambient radio waves, so it requires no battery.
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Talking Machines: Who Won This Year's Alexa Prize?
A team of students from Emory University has won this year's $500,000 Alexa Prize from Amazon for advancing conversational artificial intelligence by designing...
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Federal Reserve Reveals Research Plans for Digital Dollar
U.S. Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard Thursday detailed her agency's research plans on the potential development of a U.S. central bank digital currency,...
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Newcastle United Turns to Wearable Technology for Safe Premier League Return
Soccer clubs are turning to technology as the English Premier League looks to restart while complying with numerous health and safety protocols.
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Alabama, North Dakota, South Carolina to Debut Apple/Google’s Covid-19 Contact Tracing
Apple and Google released software on Wednesday that will allow public health agencies around the world to build their own apps to track who may have been exposed...
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Pandemic Spike in AI Learning--and What It Means For Schools
The learning platform edX has seen its enrollments increase tenfold while its computer science offerings increase ninefold over the past few months, fueled by the...
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Intel Confirms Critical New Security Problem for Windows Users
Intel has verified a newly disclosed security flaw in Windows that exposes an apparently critical vulnerability on millions of computers.
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VR Concert in Helsinki Attracts Over 1 Million Spectators
A virtual reality Vappu (May Day) concert in Helsinki, Finland, drew 1.4 million spectators.
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Linux Security: Chinese State Hackers May Have Compromised 'Holy Grail' Targets Since 2012
A BlackBerry research and intelligence team said five Chinese advanced persistent threat groups have long been attacking Linux servers.
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