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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real
Wires have a lot going for them when it comes to moving electric power around, but they have their drawbacks too. Who, after all, hasn’t tired of having to plug in and unplug their phone and other rechargeable gizmos? It’s a nuisance.
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Remote learning apps shared children’s data at a ‘dizzying scale’
The educational tools used by students during the pandemic also shared their information with advertisers and data brokers that could track them around the Web, an international investigation found.
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Twitter will pay a $150 million fine over accusations it improperly sold user data
Twitter has agreed to pay a $150 million fine after federal law enforcement officials accused the social media company of illegally using peoples' personal data over six years to help sell targeted advertisements.
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Physicists just rewrote a foundational rule for nuclear fusion reactors that could unleash twice the power
Future fusion reactions inside tokamaks could produce much more energy than previously thought, thanks to groundbreaking new research that found a foundational law for such reactors was wrong.
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An ocean first: Underwater drone tracks CO2 in Alaska gulf
SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — In the cold, choppy waters of Alaska’s Resurrection Bay, all eyes were on the gray water, looking for one thing only. It wasn’t a spout from humpback whales that power through this scenic fjord, or a sea otter lazing on its back, munching a king crab.
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ProtonMail rebrands as Proton: VPN, email and cloud storage now available under one bundle
Proton Mail, Proton VPN and Proton Drive now fall under a single $9.99/month subscription
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Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot
Smaller than a flea, robot can walk, bend, twist, turn and jump
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Microsoft patent imagines a seemingly perfect foldable phone
Microsoft has filed a patent application detailing a foldable device that can fold both inward as well as outward, eliminating the need for a cover display.
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Seth Green Can No Longer Make His NFT Show After His BoredApe Was Stolen - IGN
Seth Green's upcoming animated NFT show is currently unable to go ahead after the main character, BoredApe #8398, was stolen in a phishing scam.
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Dyson reveals its big bet … robots
UK manufacturer aims to roll out machines capable of performing household chores such as washing up by 2030
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Google’s image generator rivals DALL-E in shiba inu drawing
Google Research has publicized Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion-based generator built on large transformer language models.
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How many bots are on Twitter? The question is tough to answer — and misses the point
"We have observed a broad spectrum of behaviors mixing the characteristics of bots and people."
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The great junk transfer is coming. A look at the burden (and big business) of decluttering as Canadians inherit piles of their parents’ stuff
Sorting, storing and disposing of old family belongings will be a labour-intensive challenge in the next decade as baby boomers age
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“Tough to forge” digital driver’s license is... easy to forge
A litany of security flaws allows forgeries that are easy, quick, and cheap.
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Street View turns 15 with a new camera and fresh features
Celebrating 15 years of Street View with new product and feature updates.
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Why Isn’t New Technology Making Us More Productive?
Innovations like cloud computing and artificial intelligence are hailed as engines of a coming productivity revival. But a broad payoff across the economy has been elusive.
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Volkswagen chief says German car giant will overtake Tesla on electric vehicle sales by 2025
Volkswagen's CEO said alleviating supply chain issues would likely help create some momentum for the German auto giant in the coming months.
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Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air
Water scarcity is a major problem for much of the world’s population, but with the right equipment drinking water can be wrung out of thin air. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have now demonstrated a low-cost gel film that can pull many liters of water per day out of even very dry air.
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No, MIT's new AI can't determine a person's race from medical images
MIT researchers claim they've built an AI that can determine a person's race from medical X-Rays. That would be a miraculous breakthrough.
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How robots can help build offshore wind turbines more quickly
Trying to attach a million-dollar, 60-ton wind turbine blade to its base is challenging in any circumstance — getting the angle wrong by even a fraction of a degree could affect the machine’s ability to generate power. Now imagine trying to do it in the middle of the North Sea, one of the world’s windiest spots, with waves swelling around you. It’s like tying a thread to a kite at the beach and then trying to put it through the eye of a needle.
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