British Reporter– Robots can be better at detecting mental wellbeing issues in children than parent-reported or self-reported testing, a new study suggests according to University of Cambridge.
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After the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial decision in June 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate an almost 50-year federal right to abortion, data privacy advocates are sounding the alarm about the potential dangers of authorities weaponing digital data from prospective
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Researcher warns of risks with using alternative data in lending. What does your SAT score mean for your ability to pay off a car loan? What does your Facebook feed say about your chances of landing a mortgage? And, what does your propensity for snacking
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British Reporter — After three years of shutdown, the most powerful particle accelerator has been switched on today and will shortly begin another run of cutting-edge physics. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), on the French-Swiss border near
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Stephen Mayfield, a molecular biology professor at UC San Diego, now has a stake in the business of footwear alongside partners Michael Burkart and Robert Pomeroy from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. After six years of research and experimentation, these professors
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The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has awarded a team of researchers from the University of California campuses at Merced, Berkeley and Davis a two-year grant to simulate urban air mobility in the San Francisco area, and to draft regulations for this
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made unequivocally clear that the battlefields of this crisis involve both a literal ground war and a highly destructive digital war. Social media platforms, news sites, and apps are embroiled in an ongoing information war, where harrowing
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Brotosh Reporter — Longstanding fears that using mobile phones may increase the risk of developing a brain tumour have been reignited recently by the launch of 5G (fifth generation) mobile wireless technologies. Mobile phones emit radiofrequency waves which, if absorbed by tissues,
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David Sarabia had already sold two startups by age 26 and was sitting on enough money to never have to work another day in his life. He moved from Southern California to New York City and began to indulge in all the
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The term “metaverse” has entered pop culture lexicon in recent years, largely due to Facebook, but the idea itself isn’t new. Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, many of those in the technology community have imagined a future state of the
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