Engineering
Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of single-use face masks are discarded every day, creating a huge surge in plastic pollution. In a recent study, researchers investigated the feasibility and potential environmental ...
Mar 9, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
As a world first, a new residential district in Aarhus is using secondary water from the local water utility for toilets and washing machines. The solution is supported by a life cycle assessment.
Nov 18, 2021
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Robotics
It wasn't long after Hurricane Laura hit the Gulf Coast Thursday that people began flying drones to record the damage and posting videos on social media. Those videos are a precious resource, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon ...
Aug 28, 2020
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Internet
Facebook and its Irish data regulator gave conflicting signals Thursday about what caused the tech giant to postpone the European launch of its vaunted dating app.
Feb 13, 2020
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Computer Sciences
In 2013, a man named Eric L. Loomis was sentenced for eluding police and driving a car without the owner's consent.
Jun 6, 2017
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Business
The EU on Monday launched a probe into TikTok's spinoff Lite app and threatened to suspend an "addictive" feature on it that rewards users for watching and liking videos, amid child-safety concerns.
Apr 23, 2024
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Business
The European Union on Monday demanded TikTok provide more information about a new app that pays users to watch videos and warned that it could order the video sharing platform to suspend addictive features that pose a risk ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Business
The EU gave TikTok 24 hours to provide a risk assessment on its new Lite app launched in France and Spain over concerns of its potential impact on children and users' mental health, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
Apr 17, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a popular machine learning paradigm which allows multiple data owners to train models collaboratively without sharing their raw datasets. It holds potential for a wide spectrum of analytics ...
Feb 28, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Life cycle assessments are often used as a basis for decision-making when selecting environmentally friendly processes, input materials or services for plastics recycling. But what does a comparable and transparent ecological ...
Feb 6, 2024
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