Energy & Green Tech
Renewable energy sources such as the wind and the sun overtook fossil fuels as the European Union's main generators of electricity in the first half of this year, according to a new report published on Wednesday.
Jul 22, 2020
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Internet
When information becomes a matter of life or death or is key to navigating economic uncertainty, as it has during the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears people turn to tried and true sources of information rather than iffy sites ...
Jul 22, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
As the COVID-19 shutdowns and stay-at-home orders brought much of the world's travel and commerce to a standstill, people around the world started noticing clearer skies as a result of lower levels of air pollution. Now, ...
Jul 22, 2020
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Internet
From the moment news broke of an unknown, potentially deadly virus, the topic lit up social media channels—creating a trove of data for the University of Toronto's Jia Xue, who uses computational approaches to study social ...
Jul 22, 2020
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Engineering
A team of scientists working at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Brookhaven National Laboratory has designed an apparatus that can take simultaneous temperature ...
Jul 22, 2020
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Security
To control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 50 countries have implemented applications to trace the contacts of people who may be infected.
Jul 22, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), led by Dr. Kyung-guen Song from the KIST Water Cycle Research Center and Dr. Won-jun Choi from the KIST Center for Opto-Electronic Materials ...
Jul 22, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
Over the past few decades, research teams worldwide have developed a wide variety of computational tools and technological solutions. Quality-diversity (QD) optimization algorithms are an approach that can generate large ...
Business
Big Tech, its hands full with antitrust probes and complaints growing from activists and politicians, turns its attention to quarterly earnings in the coming days expected to show the growing power of Silicon Valley giants.
Jul 22, 2020
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With crimson walls and violet, yellow and red awnings, it's a building that few people in Cotonou, the tranquil economic capital of Benin, are likely to miss.
Jul 22, 2020
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