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French food delivery gig workers to get minimum wage

Major food delivery platforms on Thursday agreed a minimum hourly wage with representatives of French riders, the workers' FNAE union said.

Apr 20, 2023

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Researchers exploit vulnerabilities of smart device microphones and voice assistants

Guenevere Chen, an associate professor in the UTSA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently published a paper on USENIX Security 2023 that demonstrates a novel inaudible voice trojan attack to exploit vulnerabilities ...

Mar 23, 2023

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UK food delivery app to axe more than 1,700 jobs

Food delivery platform Just Eat Takeaway unveiled plans Tuesday to axe more than 1,700 mostly courier jobs in Britain, as it slashes costs in the wake of huge annual losses.

Mar 21, 2023

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Development of a self-resonant smart energy harvester

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network based on wireless sensor nodes that provide resources and information. For the long-lasting use of IoT devices, their batteries must be replaced, or a number of power line connections ...

Feb 20, 2023

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Examining the national energy savings potential of cellular shades

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers demonstrated that window shades with a cellular or honeycomb structure provide higher energy savings during winter compared to generic venetian blinds and can save millions of tons ...

Feb 15, 2023

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Wireless sensor networks have potential in health care and agriculture, says study

A new study published in the International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining has found that personal health biomedical clothing based on wireless sensor networks (PH-BC-WSN) has the potential to significantly enhance ...

Feb 7, 2023

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Keep your cool this summer with a vertical garden

With Australians facing skyrocketing energy bills, and a long hot summer ahead, many households are turning their attention to a range of passive cooling measures.

Jan 9, 2023

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Funding bill targets online sites amid retail theft concerns

Retailers are scoring one win in the governmentwide spending bill, which will force online marketplaces like Amazon and Facebook to verify high-volume sellers on their platforms amid heightened concerns about retail crime.

Dec 23, 2022

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Does Netflix chill our free will? Computer scientists investigate

It's a scenario many of us are familiar with: You sit down on the couch after a long day at work and turn on Netflix. A trailer for a show you've never heard of automatically starts playing on your home screen, and you notice ...

Dec 21, 2022

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Belgian families don gloves for house-heating research

Outside the family home, frost covers the ground and temperatures in the damp Belgian winter have plunged below freezing.