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AI Weather Forecasting for Smart Farms
Researchers at Australia's James Cook University have developed a model to help farmers using smart devices choose the most accurate rainfall forecast for a given...
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Mining Financial Data Without Actually Seeing It Can Detect Fraud
Multiparty Computation permits computation on encrypted values.
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Japan Needs a Lot More Tech Workers. Can It Find a Place for Women?
As Japan faces a severe shortage of technology workers and engineering students, efforts are being made to encourage women to enter these fields.
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Mutual Attention Inception Network Developed for Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have designed a novel mutual attention inception network and a remote sensing visual question answering dataset. ...
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Weather Control via Drone
Unmanned aerial vehicles are being used to make it rain in the desert, a first step toward controlling the weather.
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Biden Administration Establishes Program to Recruit Tech Professionals to Serve in Government
The Biden administration has established the U.S. Digital Corps to enlist and train technology professionals to serve in digital positions within the federal government...
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South Korea Forces Google, Apple to Allow Third-Party In-App Payments
The measures were proposed last year and faced strong resistance from Apple and Google.
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Rent-a-Robot: Silicon Valley's Answer to Labor Shortage in Smaller U.S. Factories
Venture capitalists are investing in leasing robots from Silicon Valley startups to smaller U.S. factories amid a labor shortage.
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Student-Athletes Required to Wear COVID Trackers at Washington State High School
Some student-athletes and coaches at Eatonville High School in Eatonville, WA, are being required to wear proximity monitors to trace potential COVID-19 exposure...
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The $150 Million Machine Keeping Moore's Law Alive
ASML's next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines achieve previously unattainable levels of precision, which means chips can keep shrinking for...
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Harnessing the Particle-Tracking Power of the Algorithm
Researchers have developed a faster, more accurate three-dimensional particle-tracking system for monitoring the motion of particles in flow.
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The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It.
Pandemic-related product shortages from computer chips to construction materials were supposed to be resolved by now. Instead, the world has gained a lesson in...
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More Than 50 Robots Work at Singapore High-Tech Hospital
Over 50 robots are working at Singapore's Changi General Hospital, performing activities ranging from surgery to administrative activities.
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Have You Really Deleted Your Personal Data From Your Device When You Dispose of It?
Many users leave sensitive personal information on their electronic devices when discarding them, according to scientists at Canada's universities of Guelph and...
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Wing Approaches 100,000 Drone Deliveries 2 Years After Launch
Two years after its pilot launched in Logan, Australia, Alphabet's drone delivery company Wing is nearing its 100,000th customer delivery.
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Who Can Bend Light for Cheaper Internet?
A new system can maintain network connections when optical fibers break by reconfiguring optical transmissions from damaged fibers to healthy ones.
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Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches
The video technology, initially associated with porn, is gaining a foothold in the corporate world.
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At White House Summit, U.S. Tech Giants Promise To Spend Billions More To Bolster Cybersecurity
The tech giants also pledged to step up their efforts to address a dire talent shortage that has hampered efforts to counter hacking.
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DARPA Drone Cybersecurity Software Foils Hackers in Demo
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says the hackers it invited to try to hack the High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems all failed.
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