Twitter revamps rules for verification 'badge'
Twitter said Thursday it was revamping its rules for verified accounts, potentially opening up the coveted blue badge to more users, but with clearer guidelines.
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Automotive
Daimler Truck says batteries, hydrogen are the future
The world's largest truck and bus maker is charting an ambitious zero-emission future and says it's not that far off - despite higher costs and the current lack of support infrastructure.
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Energy & Green Tech
Solid-state batteries line up for better performance
Solid-state batteries pack a lot of energy into a small space, but their electrodes are not good at keeping in touch with their electrolytes. Liquid electrolytes reach every nook and cranny of an electrode to spark energy, ...
May 20, 2021
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Engineering
New research investigates how soil changes the danger of a buried IED
What happens when a bomb explodes? A lot of testing has been done over the years to answer that question about huge bombs, but there is much less understanding when it comes to small bombs—especially when they are buried.
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Robotics
Using a virtual linkage representation algorithm to improve functionally of a robot hand
A team of researchers at Yale University has developed a new kind of algorithm to improve the functionally of a robot hand. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, the group describes their algorithm and ...
Engineering
How energy-generating wastewater treatment can handle China's urban population boom
From 2016 to 2020 around 100 million people have moved from the countryside to China's cities. This massive migration to cities means wastewater treatment plant numbers have multiplied to meet demand. At the beginning of ...
May 20, 2021
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Engineering
Launch of world's most powerful tidal turbine
The world's most powerful tidal turbine has taken the next step towards deployment in the Orkney Islands, an archipelago off the north-eastern coast of Scotland and home to some of the strongest tidal currents across the ...
May 20, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Improving the way videos are organized
At any given moment, many thousands of new videos are being posted to sites like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. An increasing number of those videos are being recorded and streamed live. But tech and media companies still ...
May 20, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Proposed method for evaluating user trust in artificial intelligence systems
Every time you speak to a virtual assistant on your smartphone, you are talking to an artificial intelligence—an AI that can, for example, learn your taste in music and make song recommendations that improve based on your ...
May 20, 2021
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Internet
The double-down is real: Correcting online falsehoods might make matters worse
So you thought the problem of false information on social media could not be any worse? Allow us to respectfully offer evidence to the contrary.
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