Internet
Eventually, the disadvantages of sharing your opinion online will become so great that people will turn away from the internet. This is the argument made by Geert Lovink, Professor at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science ...
Dec 9, 2022
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Internet
Aquatic internet that sends data through light beams could enable divers to instantly transmit footage from under the sea to the surface.
Jun 11, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
The work of a science writer, including this one, includes reading journal papers filled with specialized technical terminology, and figuring out how to explain their contents in language that readers without a scientific ...
Apr 18, 2019
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Business
Google is again sending a message to Apple: Fix the text messaging issues between Android devices and iPhones.
Aug 15, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A key limitation of existing artificial intelligence (AI) systems is that they are unable to tackle tasks for which they have not been trained. In fact, even when they are retrained, the majority these systems are prone to ...
Energy & Green Tech
A small number of electric vehicles in Florida burst into flame during flooding caused by Hurricane Ian, and the fires are raising awareness about a previously little-known safety issue for the millions of Americans who have ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Transformers are machine learning models designed to uncover and track patterns in sequential data, such as text sequences. In recent years, these models have become increasingly sophisticated, forming the backbone of popular ...
Security
It may be convenient to shrink a long, convoluted web address into just a few characters that will fit into a tweet, but the trend of using shortened URLs offers a new opportunity for hackers to invade your privacy, Cornell ...
May 24, 2016
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Hi Tech & Innovation
A decade ago, Elon Musk proposed a new form of transport that would shoot passengers through vacuum tunnels in levitating pods at almost the speed of sound—he called it "hyperloop".
Jul 10, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Cybercriminals are coming up with increasingly savvy ways to disrupt online services, access sensitive data or crash internet user's devices. A cyber-attack that has become very common over the past decades is the so-called ...
