Social media influencing grows more precarious in digital age
Influencing millions of people on social media and being paid handsomely is not as easy as it looks, according to new Cornell University research.
Jun 2, 2021
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Internet
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Engineering
New algorithm for modern quilting
Stanford University computer science graduate student Mackenzie Leake has been quilting since age 10, but she never imagined the craft would be the focus of her doctoral dissertation. Included in that work is new prototype ...
Jun 2, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Toshiba's triple-gate IGBT power semiconductors cut switching power losses by 40.5%
Toshiba Corporation has developed a prototype triple-gate IGBT that reduces overall power loss by up to 40.5% when switching on and off (switching losses), the process of allowing and stopping electricity flow, in power semiconductors ...
Jun 2, 2021
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Telecom
Why are there so many text scams all of a sudden?
A new "fraud wave" has been reported in the UK, targeting mobile phone users with texts that, at first glance, appear to be from delivery companies or government institutions.
Jun 2, 2021
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Automotive
Sick of dangerous city traffic? Remove left turns
To reduce travel times, fuel consumption and carbon emissions, in 2004, UPS changed delivery routes to minimize the left-hand turns drivers made. Although this seems like a rather modest change, the results are anything but: ...
Jun 2, 2021
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Business
Transparent data collection increases trust among users
If online services like Google are more transparent about what data they collect on their users, it can inspire more trust. This is the conclusion reached by researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the Max Planck ...
Jun 2, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Text2App: A framework that creates Android apps from text descriptions
Researchers at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and University of California- Los Angeles (UCLA) recently developed a framework that can create Android applications from text descriptions. This new ...
Business
Britain approves eBay merger with Adevinta
Britain's antitrust authority on Wednesday approved Norwegian firm Adevinta's acquisition of US e-commerce giant eBay's classified advertising business after the two agreed to sell off UK units.
Jun 2, 2021
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Engineering
Unpaved forest road quality assessment using airborne lidar data
Forest road quality control is a time-consuming task, but it can help reduce road management costs and allocate resources to the most urgent renovation needs. While in Finland the aging forest road network requires extent ...
Jun 2, 2021
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Internet
Mass scale manipulation of Twitter Trends discovered
New EPFL research has found that almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake, a scale of manipulation previously unheard of. It also proves for the first time that many trends are created solely by bots ...
Jun 2, 2021
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