Engineering
GPS data from cell phones may provide insight into how city inhabitants are using their urban greenspaces, in a study published July 7, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Meghann Mears and Paul Brindley from the ...
Jul 7, 2021
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Automotive
Buying an electric vehicle used to mean choosing from battery range, performance, utility or luxury. You might've found a car possessing two of those attributes but rarely all of the above. But the BMW iX and Rivian R1S are ...
Mar 8, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Online social networks claim to make connections and bring people together. But the ranking and recommender algorithms that suggest for instance whom to connect with, or who the most relevant scientists in a field are, are ...
Feb 10, 2022
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Automotive
American automaker General Motors announced Friday it is acquiring SoftBank's $2.1 billion stake in its autonomous car venture Cruise.
Mar 18, 2022
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Internet
The British government said on Thursday it was telling social media giants to take down posts containing coronavirus disinformation over concern that many in minority communities were refusing to be vaccinated.
Feb 4, 2021
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Internet
Understanding what makes something harmful or offensive can be hard enough for humans, never mind artificial intelligence systems.
Jul 7, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence is a pervasive part of modern-day life and is used by vital institutions from banks to police forces. But a growing mountain of evidence suggests that the AI used by these organizations can entrench ...
Mar 9, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Once the purview of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, facial recognition is now being used to identify consumers in Australian stores.
Jun 15, 2022
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Internet
Google algorithms place innocuous subtitles on prominent conspiracy theorists, which mislead the public and amplify extremist views, according to Simon Fraser University (SFU) researchers.
Mar 31, 2022
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Business
A passionate and bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the country's largest technology companies collapsed this week, the victim of an epic lobbying campaign by Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta.
Dec 21, 2022
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