Consumer & Gadgets
Users of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok might think they're simply interacting with friends, family and followers, and seeing ads as they go. But according to research from the UBC Sauder School ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Imagine a not-too-distant future where you let an intelligent robot manage your finances. It knows everything about you. It follows your moves, analyzes markets, adapts to your goals and invests faster and smarter than you ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
AI models often rely on "spurious correlations," making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can be traced to a very small ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Towns and cities are pushing ahead with ambitious climate policies, even as global collaboration on climate breakdown splinters. One flagship example is the proliferation of bans on advertising for highly polluting companies ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
The computer scientists Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto have been recognized for a long track record of influential ideas with this year's Turing Award, the most prestigious in the field. Sutton's 2019 essay The Bitter Lesson, ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
An experiment is underway in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that could change how communities generate and distribute power in the future.
Mar 10, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from the University of Michigan are hoping their new study will inspire some Americans to rethink their relationship with laundry. Because, no matter how you spin it, clothes dryers use a lot of comparatively ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Earlier this year I received comments on an academic manuscript of mine as part of the usual peer review process, and noticed something strange.
Mar 10, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
High-profile mobile app crashes reveal how life can be upended when an app freezes abruptly or shuts down. The Sonos app crash in May of last year left users of the wireless multi-room sound systems unable to do things like ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Internet
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, workers have spent countless hours in videoconferences—now a fixture of office life. As more people work and live remotely, videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom, MS Teams, FaceTime, ...
Mar 10, 2025
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