Engineering
By now, it's well known that circulating outdoor air in buildings is safer than recirculating indoor air. That point was driven home by the pandemic. Problem is, it's just not cost-effective.
Jun 17, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Machine learning, when used in climate science builds an actual understanding of the climate system, according to a study published in the journal Chaos by Manuel Santos Gutiérrez and Valerio Lucarini, University of Reading, ...
Jun 1, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Most of us benefit every day from the fact computers can now "understand" us when we speak or write. Yet few of us have paused to consider the potentially damaging ways this same technology may be shaping our culture.
Jun 1, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have helped maintain the necessary ...
May 21, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers have developed a tool to help governments and other organizations with limited budgets spend money on building repairs more wisely.
May 18, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Whatever business a company may be in, software plays an increasingly vital role, from managing inventory to interfacing with customers. Software developers, as a result, are in greater demand than ever, and that's driving ...
Apr 16, 2021
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Engineering
Will it be possible to design materials that are unfazed by extreme temperatures in the near future?
Apr 15, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Artificial neural networks are known to be highly efficient approximators of continuous functions, which are functions with no sudden changes in values (i.e., discontinuities, holes or jumps in graph representations). While ...
Computer Sciences
Listeners of high-energy music such as hard rock and hip-hop may be given less accurate music recommendations by music recommender systems than listeners of other non-mainstream music, according to research published in the ...
Mar 29, 2021
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Engineering
Some of the most dangerous fires are the ones you don't see coming. That goes not only for fires in buildings but for those kilometers off the ground, aboard commercial airliners. Many aircraft have systems to detect fires ...
Mar 24, 2021
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