Coming soon to Mountain View: Drone deliveries
Mountain View, California, residents will soon be able to order food, medicine and other small parcels to their homes via drone.
Jun 27, 2024
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Automotive
Report calls for better support for Community Speed Watch groups
70% of speeding motorists agree that seeing Community Speed Watch activity would make them drive slower in future.
Jun 13, 2024
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Telecom
Community broadband provides a local solution for a global problem
According to a 2023 study by the International Telecommunications Union, approximately 2.6 billion people are unconnected to the internet. It's a staggering figure.
Jun 3, 2024
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Business
Detroiters more likely to support local solar development if they think it reduces energy prices for their community
Michigan residents overwhelmingly want more solar power.
Mar 8, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Is there an alternative to 10,000 kilometers of new transmission lines? Yes—but you may not like it
Building transmission lines is often controversial. Farmers who agree to host new lines on their property may be paid, while other community members protest against the visual intrusion. Pushback against new lines has slowed ...
Feb 27, 2024
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Internet
Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media's crisis of legitimacy
In the 2018 documentary "The Cleaners," a young man in Manila, Philippines, explains his work as a content moderator: "We see the pictures on the screen. You then go through the pictures and delete those that don't meet the ...
Oct 24, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Study highlights opportunities to combine energy justice and innovation
Almost 2,500 miles and numerous differences in size, culture, and climate separate Los Angeles, California, from Tehuantepec, Mexico. At the same time, these places share striking similarities when it comes to ambitions for ...
Sep 25, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Community-based app for managing mobile privacy and security
Mamtaj Akter, a Vanderbilt computer science graduate student in the lab of Pamela Wisniewski, Flowers Family Fellow in Engineering and associate professor of computer science, has co-authored a study evaluating how technology ...
Aug 4, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Fact-checking found to influence recommender algorithms
In January 2017, Reddit users read about an alleged case of terrorism in a Spanish supermarket. What they didn't know was that nearly every detail of the stories, taken from several tabloid publications and amplified by Reddit's ...
Aug 2, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
New life for energy communities, thanks to self-generation and power sharing
Energy communities represent a new form of energy organization and management involving different actors within a local community. They are models of collective self-consumption, sharing locally produced energy with a strong ...
Jul 24, 2023
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