Internet
Four major publishing houses Monday sued the Internet Archive alleging that its "national emergency library" allowing locked-down readers free access to digital books was "brazenly" violating copyright laws.
Jun 1, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
More than 50,000 academic articles have been written about COVID-19 since the virus appeared in November.
Apr 28, 2020
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Business
Google on Friday pledged $800 million worth of support in response to the coronavirus pandemic for health organizations, researchers and businesses impacted by the crisis.
Mar 27, 2020
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Engineering
Academic researchers and others have long struggled with making data visualizations accessible to people who are blind. One technological approach has been 3-D printing tactile representations of data, in the form of raised ...
Mar 13, 2020
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Other
Nearly forty thousand people lost their lives in car crashes last year in the U.S. alone. We can only presume that many of those fatalities were owed to our uniquely human frailties: distracted driving, driving under the ...
Oct 14, 2019
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Business
Ilan Samish dips a crisp in ketchup, takes a sip of soda and samples a spoonful of yogurt—the latter three sweetened with a protein he has developed.
Sep 27, 2019
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Internet
It used to be that only Hollywood production companies with deep pockets and teams of skilled artists and technicians could make deepfake videos, realistic fabrications appearing to show people doing and saying things they ...
Aug 27, 2019
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Engineering
The term "data science" was coined by scientists working at the social networks LinkedIn and Facebook in 2008. A few years later, they dubbed it "the sexiest profession of the 21st century."
Jul 29, 2019
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Other
Reading about the latest scientific discovery—such as the unearthing of a fossil representing a new species of tiny dinosaur—can be fascinating. But what if it were possible to do more than just read about it? What if ...
May 22, 2024
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Business
There comes a time in many a university scientist's life when discoveries confined to the lab are ready to reach a wider audience—when a new product or technology has shown in tests that it would provide a meaningful benefit ...
Jun 30, 2022
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