Airbnb stops booking stays in China: source
Home rental service Airbnb is shutting down its business in China as a pandemic lockdown shows no sign of ending there, a source close to the company told AFP Monday.
May 24, 2022
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Business
Home rental service Airbnb is shutting down its business in China as a pandemic lockdown shows no sign of ending there, a source close to the company told AFP Monday.
May 24, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Transistors, which are devices that control or amplify electrical signals and power, are one of the most ubiquitous components of modern electronics. The most widely used transistor is known as the MOSFET, which stands for ...
May 13, 2022
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Automotive
Serious auto crashes in urban areas are more likely on city streets that look to drivers like highways, new research suggests.
May 12, 2022
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Engineering
As a kid, Justin Boutilier would sometimes get roped into helping his dad, a paramedic and firefighter, perform automated external defibrillator (AED) demonstrations in and around his hometown of Niagara Falls, Canada.
May 11, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Many urban areas worldwide are now rapidly expanding, often with major negative impacts on traffic congestion. To address this issue, researchers have constructed models aiming to simulate the flow of traffic—but so far, ...
May 04, 2022
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Business
Bookings on Airbnb hit a new high in this year's first quarter, the home rental platform reported Tuesday, in a fresh signal that travel demand stifled by the Covid-19 pandemic is being unleashed.
May 04, 2022
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Automotive
Humans live in a world where safety-critical systems are at work all around them. Scientists want to ensure that the proper safety constraints are in place so these systems can operate safely while also performing as needed. ...
Apr 22, 2022
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Automotive
Zipline, an American company that specializes in using autonomously flying drones to deliver medical supplies, has taken off in Japan.
Apr 21, 2022
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Engineering
A team of researchers at Stanford University, working with a colleague at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has built an AI-based filtration system to remove noise from seismic sensor data in urban areas. In their paper published ...
Apr 14, 2022 report
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Engineering
A Stanford University analysis could help policymakers across the U.S. spend billions of dollars in new federal infrastructure funding more wisely. The study, published March 31 in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, presents ...
Apr 05, 2022
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