Engineering
People rarely think about culverts until they are gone. These plain pipes and boxes carry roads over streams and span less than 20 feet—the federal cutoff for what counts as a bridge. That means road-stream crossings stay ...
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Machine learning & AI
Human beings tend to infer personality or character traits from other people's facial features, and these biases—ungrounded in any actual relationship between faces and behavior—lead to unfair outcomes.
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Hi Tech & Innovation
When people with a sight impairment cannot cope with everyday tasks, it is often not due to a lack of competence, but rather because of impediments existing in their environment. A mobile assistance system, which is currently ...
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Engineering
Aluminum foam is one of the lightest structural materials available. Thanks to its low density, high energy absorption capacity and excellent damping properties, it is suitable for applications in automotive engineering, ...
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Business
Meta hooked and exploited children, a federal court heard Tuesday in the trial of the social media giant on charges that it deliberately made Instagram and Facebook addictive to young users.
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Business
Baidu posted a fifth straight drop in quarterly revenue on Tuesday as the Chinese tech giant expressed confidence in its transition to artificial intelligence services to drive long-term growth.
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Engineering
Reducing the negative environmental impact of buildings—globally one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions—might be even more difficult than expected. New research from Drexel University indicates that, ...
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Business
Artificial intelligence has created new jobs in more than half of UK firms, according to a study by British bank Lloyds released Tuesday, even as fears about its impact on employment grow.
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Automotive
Hundreds of commercial flights will be told to change their paths over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean during the next two winters to show how minor altitude adjustments can reduce aviation's climate impact.
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Security
Recent cyberattacks on municipal water systems across the United States have renewed concerns about the cybersecurity of the operational technology that supports critical infrastructure.
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