Danish media unite to push tech giants on rights
Denmark's main media outlets said Monday they are banding together to negotiate copyright payments for news content used by tech platforms such as Google and Facebook.
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Energy & Green Tech
Plans in place to build carbon capture facility in Scotland that can capture a million tonnes a year
Storegga Geotechnologies, a UK energy transition company, and Carbon Engineering, a Canadian company involved in projects that remove carbon from the air, have teamed up to build a direct air capture (DAC) facility in Scotland. ...
Computer Sciences
DNA databases: New method cuts indexing from weeks to hours, searches to minutes
Rice University computer scientists are sending RAMBO to rescue genomic researchers who sometimes wait days or weeks for search results from enormous DNA databases.
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Engineering
Creating a sustainable city: Time, common sense and persistence
Cities want to become more sustainable but bringing that ambition to life can be quite the challenge. Academics have to work together with urban planners to help realize sustainability transformations. But when transformation ...
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AI learns to predict human behavior from videos
Predicting what someone is about to do next based on their body language comes naturally to humans but not so for computers. When we meet another person, they might greet us with a hello, handshake, or even a fist bump. We ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Why nuclear energy isn't a safe bet in a warming world
The overwhelming majority of nuclear power stations active today entered service long before the science of climate change was well-established. Two in five nuclear plants operate on the coast and at least 100 have been built ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Study offers plan to overcome hurdles for hydrogen energy
The U.S. is counting on hydrogen to play a significant role in the low-carbon economy of the future, but fundamental questions about transportation, storage and cost need to be addressed in order to integrate hydrogen gas ...
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Computer Sciences
LyricJam: A system that can generate lyrics for live instrumental music
Over the past few decades, computer scientists have developed computational tools that can generate specific types of data, such as images, words or audio recordings. These systems could have a variety of valuable applications, ...
Computer Sciences
Using photos of toasters and fridges to train algorithms in detecting COVID-19
New research using machine learning on images of everyday items is improving the accuracy and speed of detecting respiratory diseases, reducing the need for specialist medical expertise.
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