Automotive
To most of us, the twisted metal and broken glass of a car crash is evidence of driver error, bad luck or both. To Kelcie Ralph, an associate professor of urban planning and policy development at Rutgers, every car crash ...
Dec 21, 2022
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Robotics
Individual ants are relatively simple creatures and yet a colony of ants can perform really complex tasks, such as intricate construction, foraging and defense.
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Business
A passionate and bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the country's largest technology companies collapsed this week, the victim of an epic lobbying campaign by Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta.
Dec 21, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg says the fact his company doesn't have a virtual reality fitness app up doesn't keep him up at night, but acquiring it would boost competition and improve such applications.
Dec 21, 2022
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Internet
Delta Air Lines is moving further along its path of offering free Wi-Fi on flights, a years-long effort of testing and gradual technology upgrades.
Dec 21, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
A group of about 20 tech-savvy engineers and programmers gathered Saturday afternoon at a Philadelphia bookstore to celebrate the installation of an old-fashioned public pay phone.
Dec 21, 2022
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Robotics
Exploring a new way to teach robots, Princeton researchers have found that human-language descriptions of tools can accelerate the learning of a simulated robotic arm lifting and using a variety of tools.
Dec 21, 2022
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Software
Researchers from Japan have used socio-technical techniques to measure the congruence between the network of contributors to open-source programming libraries and the dependencies of that library within the ecosystem. This ...
Dec 21, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Researchers have developed a novel machine-learning framework that uses scene descriptions in movie scripts to automatically recognize different characters' actions. Applying the framework to hundreds of movie scripts showed ...
Dec 21, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Smart buildings, which are central to the concept of smart cities, are a new generation of buildings in which technological devices, such as sensors, are embedded in the structure of the buildings themselves. Smart buildings ...
Dec 21, 2022
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