United Airlines: No Boeing 737 MAX flights this summer
United Airlines will keep the Boeing 737 MAX out of service for even longer, and does not expect to fly the plane this summer, executives said Wednesday.
Jan 22, 2020
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Automotive
New coalition advocating electric vehicles counts Amazon as a founding member
Amazon is one of the initial members of a new industry group set up to help companies electrify their vehicle fleets and support policies that enable electrification.
Jan 22, 2020
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Business
Payout for Musk as Tesla value tops $100 bn
Tesla's market value hit $100 billion for the first time Wednesday, triggering a payout plan that could be worth billions for Elon Musk, founder and chief of the electric carmaker.
Jan 22, 2020
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Internet
Dating apps: How to protect your personal data from hackers, advertisers
Setting up a profile on most dating apps is simple.
Jan 22, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
South Africa's energy crisis has triggered lots of bad ideas for managing utilities
Since late last year South Africans have, once again, been subjected to power cuts by the power utility, Eskom. The need for what's called loadshedding—planned power outages—led to the recent resignation of Eskom's chairperson ...
Jan 22, 2020
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Internet
Data mining hyphenated headlines: Improving named entity recognition
Data mining and extraction of knowledge from disparate sources is big data, big business. But, how does the search software cope with entities that are mentioned where only part of their name is used or a name is hyphenated ...
Jan 22, 2020
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Other
Why tech has been slow to fight wildfires, extreme weather
For three years running, California's wildfires have sent plumes of smoke across Silicon Valley. So far, though, that hasn't spurred much tech innovation aimed at addressing extreme-weather disasters associated with climate ...
Jan 22, 2020
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Security
How blockchain could prevent future data breaches
Just before the new year, approximately 15 million Canadians —about 40 percent of the entire population of Canada —learned that their sensitive personal data, collected by one of Canada's major lab diagnostic and testing ...
Jan 22, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
New research: Human heartbeats help distinguish computer-generated faces from ours
Recent advances in computer graphics are making it possible to create computer-generated (CG) representations of human beings that are difficult to distinguish from their real-world counterparts. "Digital human face detection ...
Jan 22, 2020
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Security
One ring to rule them all: Surveillance 'smart' tech won't make Canadian cities safer
Last fall, Drew Dilkens, the mayor of Windsor, Ont., set out to make the city the first Canadian urban center to connect to the Amazon Ring network, which the company calls "the new neighborhood watch."
Jan 22, 2020
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