The COVIDSafe app may not be able to overcome its shortcomings
The Australian government's contact-tracing app, COVIDSafe, has been touted as crucial for restarting the country's economy and curbing COVID-19's spread.
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Energy & Green Tech
Emissions from road construction could be halved using today's technology
The construction sector accounts for a quarter of carbon dioxide emissions, in Sweden and globally. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg studied the construction of an eight ...
May 18, 2020
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Internet
Scientists text-mining social media for data on food-related topics
From tweeting photos of delicious meals to reviewing restaurants, social media give foodies numerous opportunities to indulge their passion for edibles. But these media and other digital communications—including recipe websites ...
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Telecom
A system to produce context-aware captions for news images
Computer systems that can automatically generate image captions have been around for several years. While many of these techniques perform considerably well, the captions they produce are typically generic and somewhat uninteresting, ...
Automotive
France to subsidise clean car purchases to save automakers
France is preparing a package of measures to shore up automakers stung by the coronavirus crisis, including subsidies to encourage purchases of electric vehicles, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Monday.
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Business
U.S. restriction on chipmakers deals critical blow to Huawei
The latest U.S. sanctions on Huawei threaten to devastate China's first global tech competitor, escalating a feud with Beijing that could disrupt technology industries worldwide.
May 18, 2020
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Business
SoftBank Group reports record losses as Ma quits board
Struggling Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group on Monday reported record losses, as the coronavirus pandemic compounded woes caused by its investment in troubled office-sharing start-up WeWork.
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Business
Ryanair logs annual profit but warns on virus chaos
Irish no-frills airline Ryanair said Monday that net profits climbed to 1.0 billion euros ($1.07 billion) in its 2019/2020 financial year, which ended just after coronavirus grounded planes worldwide.
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Engineering
Double helix of masonry—Researchers discover the secret of Italian renaissance domes
In a collaborative study in this month's issue of Engineering Structures, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Bergamo revealed the engineering techniques behind self-supporting masonry domes inherent ...
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