Jury selection starts in Theranos founder's fraud trial
Fallen biotech star Elizabeth Holmes was in court Tuesday as jury selection began for her fraud trial in a case that rocked Silicon Valley.
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'The algorithm fired me': California bill takes on Amazon's notorious work culture
California lawmakers are taking aim at Amazon.
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Business
Google extends remote work option due to pandemic
Google on Tuesday extended the option for its employees to work from home into next year due to the pandemic.
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Business
App store antics: Legal screws tighten for Google, Apple
David Barnard owes his entire livelihood to Apple.
Aug 31, 2021
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Automotive
Survey: Owners frustrated when linking phones to vehicles
Automobile quality rose last year, but glitches in pairing smartphones with infotainment systems frustrated owners more than anything, according to a large U.S. survey of auto owners.
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Machine learning & AI
Novel algorithm improves 'consensus' performance in multi-agent systems
Researchers have devised a better network 'topology' within distributed multi-agent systems to improve the speed at which their nodes converge on agreement regarding a single data value needed during computation. The technique, ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Fuel economy standards could save Malaysia 16.2 billion liters of petrol by 2030
Introducing fuel economy standards will significantly contribute to fuel savings and emissions mitigation in Malaysia, according to new international research by Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and University of Technology ...
Aug 31, 2021
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Robotics
A policy to enable the use of general-purpose manipulators in high-speed robot air hockey
To perform well on highly dynamic tasks, robots should be able to move quickly and be highly reactive. As robots typically have physical constraints and hardware limitations, computer scientists should also develop planners ...
Robotics
An omnidirectional octopus-like robot arm that can stretch, bend and twist without a motor
A combined team of researchers from The Ohio State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a robot arm that moves like an octopus arm without the need for a motor. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Energy & Green Tech
Machine learning identifies hidden factors that affect solar farms during severe weather
Sandia National Laboratories researchers combined large sets of real-world solar data and advanced machine learning to study the impacts of severe weather on U.S. solar farms, and sort out what factors affect energy generation. ...
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