Robotics
The Utah Bionic Leg, a motorized prosthetic for lower-limb amputees developed by University of Utah mechanical engineering associate professor Tommaso Lenzi and his students in the HGN Lab, is on the cover of the newest issue ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
From cartoon memes to cancel culture, hashtag activism and "new" languages, it's undeniable that Black Twitter has shaped much of today's internet culture.
Dec 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
To meet the growing global demand for electronics that can operate for long periods of time, engineers will need to develop highly performing and stable batteries with increasingly longer lifetimes. To reliably continue improving ...
Internet
The representation of cloud technology as an automated realm powered by ethereal data flows fails to do justice to the exhaustive human effort that is required to keep the data centers behind it running.
Nov 30, 2022
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Business
Alibaba founder Jack Ma has been living in Tokyo for almost six months after disappearing from public view following China's crackdown on the tech sector, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, citing multiple unnamed sources.
Nov 30, 2022
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Engineering
Testing time perception in an unusually lifelike setting—a virtual reality ride on a New York City subway train—an interdisciplinary Cornell research team found that crowding makes time seem to pass more slowly.
Nov 29, 2022
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Automotive
South Korea's capital launched its first self-driving bus route on Friday, part of an experiment that engineers said aims to make people feel more comfortable with driverless vehicles on the roads.
Nov 25, 2022
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Internet
Is it a pipe dream or a possibility? Elon Musk wants to meaningfully diversify Twitter's revenue stream beyond advertising, but no major social network has managed so far to go without ads altogether.
Nov 25, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A group of researchers on the Meta Fundamental AI Research Diplomacy Team (FAIR), affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., has added a negotiation component to its Diplomacy-playing AI system. In a paper published ...
Engineering
On November 15 2022, a baby girl named Vinice Mabansag, born at Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila, Philippines, became—symbolically—the eight billionth person in the world. Of those 8 billion people, 60% live ...
Nov 23, 2022
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