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When the United States won the gold in curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics, many Americans responded to the news with a simple question: What is...
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Rating threats on their potential harm, profitability, achievability, and defeatability, the group identified that deep fakes — a technology that already exists and is spreading —...
What’s the news — In published this week in the journal Science Robotics, mechanical engineers from the University of Utah designed a way to control the...
What’s new — A research team from the University of Aston in the U.K. has launched a new app this month called “” which is designed...
With Covid-19 infection rates , it’s safe to say that maintaining social distance — whether to return to work or to throwback cold ones with friends...