Business
Robert Brunner is the associate dean for innovation and chief disruption officer at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he helped spearhead efforts to create iBlock, the first ...
Jul 8, 2022
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Software
Want to be popular with lots of friends? Get out there and tweet. That advice holds true for open-source software projects as well, according to a new study.
Jun 14, 2022
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Internet
It's no secret that the commercial websites and mobile apps we use every day are tracking us. Big companies like Facebook and Google depend on it. However, as a new paper by a team of Concordia researchers shows, businesses ...
May 17, 2022
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Hardware
A fair amount of dog-related research, including some conducted at Nebraska's Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Lab, involves automatically dispensing treats that reinforce behaviors and help test a dog's ability to learn.
Feb 24, 2022
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Software
Log4Shell, an internet vulnerability that affects millions of computers, involves an obscure but nearly ubiquitous piece of software, Log4j. The software is used to record all manner of activities that go on under the hood ...
Dec 23, 2021
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Telecom
Between September 1982 and December 2020, at least 51,512 people were rescued on land and at sea with help from a network of Earth-orbiting satellites able to detect and locate emergency distress beacons.
Oct 15, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Social distancing has been a critical component of the world's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The idea being that keeping physical apart from other people will reduce the risk of a person spreading the respiratory virus ...
Sep 1, 2021
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Business
At the launch of bitcoin in 2009 the size of the potential of the underlying technology, the blockchain, was not fully appreciated.
May 20, 2021
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Engineering
The nation's power grid remains vulnerable to disruption from extreme events including wildfires, severe storms, and cyberattacks. Variable generation resources and load volatility also present operational challenges to grid ...
May 7, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Due to stricter regulations of sustainability, we might see solar panels more often not only on sunny rooftops, but more and more on shaded roofs and facades as well, which brings new challenges in their integration. In ...
Mar 30, 2021
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