Consumer & Gadgets
Voice speed and interaction style may determine whether a user sees a digital assistant like Alexa or Siri as a helpful partner or something to control, according to a team led by Penn State researchers. The findings reveal ...
Oct 31, 2023
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Business
Online privacy policies may not only be difficult to find but nonexistent, according to Penn State researchers who crawled millions of websites and found that only one-third of online organizations made their privacy policy ...
Oct 27, 2023
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Software
Smart contracts, or computer programs that automatically execute certain agreed-upon actions when agreed-upon conditions are met, are considered safer for online transactions than traditional contracts, but they are not error-proof. ...
Sep 14, 2023
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Engineering
In June, the American Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) approved Standard 241, which establishes minimum requirements for building owners, operators and professionals to improve indoor air quality ...
Aug 2, 2023
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Engineering
Three years ago, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history blasted through Lebanon's capital, Beirut. The accidental detonation of improperly stored ammonium nitrate killed 218 people, injured thousands and caused ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Engineering
Worldwide, glass manufacturing produces at least 86 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. A new type of glass promises to cut this carbon footprint in half. The invention, called LionGlass and engineered by researchers ...
Jul 3, 2023
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Business
Children are growing up in a digital world where technology plays a role in their everyday lives. Research on human-computing interaction (HCI) shows that designing technologies for children's privacy and security online, ...
Jun 22, 2023
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Engineering
Airplane engines can reach temperatures of more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The hotter they get, the more fuel efficient they become, but that efficiency is limited by how hot the metallic components inside the turbine ...
Jun 22, 2023
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Business
Cloud-based computing directly contributes to business innovation, but rural businesses lacking sufficient broadband capacity to access cloud services are missing out on their innovation-boosting potential, according to a ...
Jun 12, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Showing users that visual data fed into artificial intelligence (AI) systems was labeled correctly might make people trust AI more, according to researchers. These findings may also pave the way to help scientists better ...
Apr 24, 2023
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