Robots can be used to assess children's mental well-being, study suggests
Robots can be better at detecting mental well-being issues in children than parent-reported or self-reported testing, a new study suggests.
Aug 31, 2022
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Robotics
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Energy & Green Tech
Californians told not to charge EVs as grid struggles in heat wave
Californians were told Wednesday not to charge their electric vehicles during peak hours, just days after the state said it would stop selling gas-powered cars, as the aging electricity grid struggles with a fearsome heatwave.
Aug 31, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Soaking up the sun with artificial intelligence
The sun continuously transmits trillions of watts of energy to the Earth. It will be doing so for billions more years. Yet, we have only just begun tapping into that abundant, renewable source of energy at affordable cost.
Aug 31, 2022
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Business
Getting SNAP shoppers online is a win for food security and superstores. For corner stores and bodegas, not so much
The push for recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, to shop online has been hailed by anti-hunger activists as a win-win solution to food insecurity. Locally, one out ...
Aug 31, 2022
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Recognition of drivers' hard and soft braking intentions based on hybrid brain-computer interfaces
A technical paper by scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology introduced simultaneous and sequential hybrid brain-computer interfaces (hBCIs) that incorporate EEG and EMG signals for classifying drivers' hard braking, ...
Aug 31, 2022
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Robotics
A manta ray-inspired biosyncretic robot with stable controllability via dynamic electric stimulation
Nature has provided great support for the development of robots. Inspired by manta rays, a team from the State Key Laboratory of Robotics at the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed ...
Aug 31, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Trump's Truth Social not approved for Google Play store over content moderation concerns
Google has not approved former President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform for the Google Play Store over content moderation concerns, the tech giant owned by Alphabet said.
Aug 31, 2022
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Business
Italy picks bid by US fund, Delta and Air France for ITA Airways
Italy announced Wednesday it chose a bid by US investment fund Certares, in partnership with Delta Airlines and Air France-KLM, for exclusive talks to take over national carrier ITA Airways.
Aug 31, 2022
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Business
Snap cutting 20% of staff as ad sales continue to dry up
The parent company of social media platform Snapchat said Wednesday that it is letting go of 20% of its staff as it reorganizes and tries to reduce costs in the face of declining ad sales.
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Computer Sciences
Using a GAN architecture to restore heavily compressed music files
Over the past few decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced technologies and tools to store large amounts of music and audio files in electronic devices. A particular milestone for music storage was ...
