Reddit co-founder leaves board, urges black replacement
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian announced his resignation from the board of the social media site and urged the board to replace him with a black candidate.
Jun 5, 2020
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Business
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Security
Researchers call for new federal authority to regulate facial recognition tech
A group of artificial intelligence experts including computer vision researcher and lead author Erik Learned-Miller of the University of Massachusetts Amherst's College of Information and Computer Sciences recently proposed ...
Jun 5, 2020
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Internet
Google Search shaves seconds with snippet-to-source feature
The columnist George Will once said of baseball that it is a game "measured in inches and seconds."
Energy & Green Tech
Cheaper, lighter and more energy-dense: The promise of lithium-sulphur batteries
Lithium-sulphur batteries, which are lighter and cheaper than today's models, may be the next generation of power cells that we use in electric cars or mobile phones—if scientists can get them to last for longer.
Jun 5, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Research shows promising advances to inexpensive and durable smart window technology
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed an improved method for controlling smart tinting on windows that could make them cheaper, more effective and more durable than current options on the market. ...
Jun 5, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A system for the nonreciprocal transmission of microwave acoustic waves
Acoustic waves have been found to be highly versatile and promising carriers of information between chip-based electronic devices. This characteristic is ideal for the development of a number of electronic components, including ...
Software
The importance of building trust in contact tracing apps
In the very real need for speed around excellent contact tracing in the COVID-19 environment, the voice of the people is getting lost, according to Associate Professor Anna Brown.
Jun 5, 2020
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Engineering
Bioactive inks printed on wearable textiles can map conditions over the entire surface of the body
Researchers at Tufts University's School of Engineering have developed biomaterial-based inks that respond to and quantify chemicals released from the body (e.g. in sweat and potentially other biofluids) or in the surrounding ...
Jun 5, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
How West Africa can expand power supply and meet climate goals
Not too long ago, when the idea of solar and wind energy was still hotly debated, critics used to point out the limitations of these energy sources: the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. But nowadays ...
Jun 5, 2020
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Software
Need for speed in COVID–19 digital contact tracing
Australia's COVIDSafe app needs to be faster and have higher uptake rates to be effective as the nation's digital contact tracing solution, according to a working paper released by The University of Queensland's Institute ...
Jun 5, 2020
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