Meet the scholar who diagnosed 'surveillance capitalism'
A year ago, Shoshana Zuboff dropped an intellectual bomb on the technology industry. She hasn't stood still since.
Dec 11, 2019
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Senate Democrats propose sweeping data privacy bill
Senate Democrats are proposing a broad federal data privacy law that would allow people to see what information companies have collected on them and demand that it be deleted.
Nov 26, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Reimagined thermionic energy technology to help reduce electricity costs
Energy technology can be costly and inconvenient for commercial usage due to operational expenses. Atlas Energy Systems, a Purdue University-affiliated startup, is working to create a more robust form of energy technology.
Nov 20, 2019
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Turning waste heat into hydrogen fuel
Hydrogen as an energy carrier can help us move away from fossil fuels, but only if it is created efficiently. One way to improve efficiency is to use waste heat that's left over from other industrial processes.
Nov 7, 2019
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Engineering
Researchers develop new technology for precision grinding
A team of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania have developed a novel approach to precision grinding of hard and brittle materials achieving unparalleled efficiency of this process. By experimenting ...
Oct 9, 2019
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Apple awards $250 million to supplier of glass for iPhones
Apple on Tuesday deepened its ties with a Kentucky manufacturing plant by awarding $250 million to support Corning Inc.'s continued work to develop glass for iPhones and other devices.
Sep 17, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Photovoltaic power from textiles
Imagine a truck tarp that can harvest the energy of sunlight! With the help of new textile-based solar cells developed by Fraunhofer researchers, semitrailers could soon be producing the electricity needed to power cooling ...
Aug 2, 2019
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Electronic eye: Technology for breakdowns prevention
Detecting deformations and the wear-out rate of underground water mains is one of the functions of the measuring optical device created by the scientists of Ural Federal University in collaboration with D-TEST Optical Measurement ...
Jul 22, 2019
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Artificial intelligence pioneers win tech's 'Nobel Prize'
Computers have become so smart during the past 20 years that people don't think twice about chatting with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri or seeing their friends automatically tagged in Facebook pictures.
Mar 27, 2019
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Robot revolution—rise of the intelligent automated workforce
Losing jobs to technology is nothing new. Since the industrial revolution, roles that were once exclusively performed by humans have been slowly but steadily replaced by some form of automated machinery. Even in cases where ...
May 5, 2016
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