Energy & Green Tech
A power transmission grid can be destabilized by hackers who manipulate smart meters to create an oscillation in electricity demand, researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have shown.
May 3, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
After nearly three years, Amazon workers are set to return this week at a scale the Seattle campus hasn't seen since the pandemic first sent most home.
May 3, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Computer scientists who helped build the foundations of today's artificial intelligence technology are warning of its dangers, but that doesn't mean they agree on what those dangers are or how to prevent them.
May 3, 2023
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Internet
U.S. regulators say Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app, including misrepresenting the access it provided to app developers to private user data.
May 3, 2023
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Business
Elon Musk threatened to reassign NPR's Twitter account to "another company," according to the non-profit news organization, in an ongoing spat between Musk and media groups since his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last ...
May 3, 2023
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Internet
There has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created with webcams and other recording devices worldwide since 2019, according to the the Internet Watch Foundation.
May 3, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
An AI model has been developed to automatically translate Akkadian text written in cuneiform into English. Hundreds of thousands of clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, written in cuneiform and dating back as far as 3,400 ...
May 3, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
New Zealand burns the equivalent of 108 liters of petrol every second in coal and natural gas to generate heat for industrial processes. This burning of fossil fuels for industrial heat generates 28% of New Zealand's energy-related ...
May 3, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Prior to Silicon Valley Bank's March 10, 2023, collapse, conversations on Twitter among investors about the bank spiked—helping fuel the SVB bank run. As we explain in our new working paper, "Social media as a bank run ...
May 3, 2023
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Business
Google plans to build two more data centers in Ohio to help power its artificial intelligence technology and other tools, the company and state officials announced Wednesday.
May 3, 2023
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