Machine learning & AI
In a proof-of-concept study, education and artificial intelligence researchers have demonstrated the use of a machine-learning model to predict how long individual museum visitors will engage with a given exhibit. The finding ...
Oct 13, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
When giant blobs began appearing on city skylines around the world in the late 1980s and 1990s, it marked not an alien invasion but the impact of computers on the practice of building design.
Jun 19, 2020
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Internet
Museums, galleries and artist collectives around the world are shutting their doors and moving online in response to coronavirus. But engaging with audiences online requires access, skills and investment.
Apr 7, 2020
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Other
Silicon Valley on Wednesday was mourning a pioneering computer scientist whose accomplishments included inventing the widely relied on "cut, copy and paste" command.
Feb 20, 2020
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Security
A ransomware attack has targeted the central data systems of Paris' Grand Palais and other museums in the Réunion des Musées Nationaux network, the Paris prosecutor's office said Tuesday. Some venues in the network are ...
Aug 7, 2024
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Security
The Grand Palais, which is hosting Olympic events in Paris, and around 40 other museums in France were victims of a ransomware attack at the weekend, police sources told AFP Monday.
Aug 6, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
The history of television began long before millions of people gathered in front of their black-and-white sets and fiddled with the antenna and horizontal hold to watch Lucy, Uncle Miltie and Howdy Doodie.
Jul 3, 2023
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Other
A new museum opening in a former metalworking factory in Warsaw brings together 1,600 exhibits linked to Apple—the result of years of painstaking efforts by a determined Polish collector.
May 31, 2022
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Business
Amazon founder and soon-to-be-space traveler Jeff Bezos is donating $200 million to the Smithsonian Institution to boost its National Air and Space Museum, the largest gift received by the institution since its founding in ...
Jul 14, 2021
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Internet
Google is celebrating the 151st anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a doodle showcasing the institution's most important pieces of work.
Apr 13, 2021
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