More and more, it’s being used in what’s presented as the interest of public health. Australia recently expanded a program using facial recognition to enforce covid-19 safety precautions. People who are quarantining are subject to random check-ins, in which...
Software and e-learning tools became critical to ensuring continuity of learning when there was uncertainty over in-person delivery. This much is true of both core curriculum and careers education programmes at schools across the country.
While remote lessons will never...
“There’s probably nothing we could do that has a bigger effect on shaving peak temperatures over the next few decades than removing methane,” says Rob Jackson, a researcher at Stanford and a coauthor of both studies. Methane is relatively...
With a fast response, they were able to keep it restricted to the "generally infested area," an 89-square-mile tract of land where sudden oak death runs rampant. No one is allowed to move tanoaks in or out of this...
But fully vaccinated healthy people in "high-risk" jobs, meaning that they have more chances of being exposed to the virus, aren't necessarily at higher risk of getting sick even if they catch the virus. That's the whole point of...
It turns out the best way to do machine learning (ML) is sometimes to not do any machine learning at all. In fact, according to Amazon Applied Scientist Eugene Yan, “The first rule of machine learning start without...
Whether you’re exploring mountains of data, researching scientific problems, training neural networks, or modeling financial markets, you need a computing platform that boasts the highest data throughput. And, because GPUs consume data much faster than CPUs, you also need...
Despite being the default way that you get into most of your digital accounts, passwords aren't really that secure—certainly not compared to a fingerprint or a device that can act as a physical key. If someone gets hold of...
9M-MRO at Perth Airport in 2012. Credit: Alan PepperThe greatest mystery in aviation is much closer to being solved after the latest trials of breakthrough tracking technology by aerospace engineer Richard Godrey.Mr. Godfrey has pioneered a suite of software...
fall has officially arrived. If the change in season is giving you the urge to swap out your old tech and accessories with the new, then you're in luck. We've got plenty of deals on everything from smartphones and...
- Advertisement -
