Tag: Technology

Philadelphia publishes ‘meta’ dashboard for city’s open-data efforts (Ryan Johnston, State Scoop)

The City of Philadelphia on Tuesday announced the launch of a new dashboard to track the city’s progress with sharing its open data. Philadelphia publishes 'meta' dashboard...

Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices (James Vincent, The Verge)

What does Google’s parent company Alphabet want with robots? Well, it would like them to clean up around the office, for a start. The company announced...

The robot that knows when you’re lying: Scientists create an AI that can detect deception with 73% accuracy by measuring subtle facial movements (Ryan...

Being able to detect when someone is lying has been a goal for decades, and now, thanks to artificial intelligence, scientists believe they may...

Classifying AI Systems (Catherine Aiken, CSET)

This brief explores the development and testing of artificial intelligence system classification frameworks intended to distill AI systems into concise, comparable and policy-relevant dimensions....

Superconductor Electronics Research National Competitiveness and Funding Activity (Karson Elmgren, Ashwin Acharya, Will Hunt, CSET)

Devices based on superconductor electronics can achieve much higher energy efficiency than standard electronics. Research in superconductor electronics could advance a range of commercial...

Research Impact, Research Output, and the Role of International Collaboration (Autumn Toney, Melissa Flagg, CSET)

This data brief explores how international collaboration relates to the impact and output of research publications. Focusing on the top 10 countries with the...

Exploring bioinformatics through the Map of Science (Sara Abdulla, CSET)

Bioinformatics is a field of biotechnology that lies at the intersection of data, computer science, and biology. Specifically, bioinformatics employs computational methods to address...

Self-driving robots key to future of our food (Greg Nichols, ZDNet)

Acquisitions are shaking up the smart farming landscape. The latest example comes via Fieldin, the world's largest smart farm operations management company for high-value crops,...

Microsoft now has one of the world’s fastest supercomputers (and no, it doesn’t run on Windows) (Liam Tung, ZDNet)

A Microsoft Azure supercomputer dubbed 'Voyager-EUS2' has made it into the rankings of the world's 10 fastest machines. Microsoft's supercomputer, with a benchmark speed of...

How technology can help with methane regulation (Barry G. Rabe, Brookings)

Methane’s march from obscurity to center stage at the Glasgow climate summit reflects its growing recognition as an intensive global warming driver. President Joe...

Nokia to launch cloud-based software subscription service (Reuters)

Nokia (NOKIA.HE) said on Wednesday it plans to launch a cloud-based software subscription service targeting telecom companies for providing software around analytics, security and data management. Many...

U.S. aviation regulator in talks with telecom industry over 5G dispute (David Shepardson, Reuters)

 The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it is in direct talks with the telecom industry about its aviation safety concerns involving the planned...

Musk, Brazilian govt discuss deal to provide rural Internet, monitor Amazon (Gram Slattery, Reuters)

Elon Musk and Brazilian Communications Minister Fabio Faria met in Austin on Tuesday to discuss a potential partnership that would leverage SpaceX technology to...

Google Cloud, Snap, Spotify back up after brief outage (Reuters)

Multiple social media apps such as Snapchat (SNAP.N), Spotify (SPOT.N) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud appeared to be coming back online after a brief global outage on Tuesday. Google said...

Reckoning with cyberpolicy contradictions in great power politics (Robert D. Williams, Brookings)

What should be the boundaries of government-sponsored cybertheft and surveillance beyond national borders? To what extent do apps such as TikTok pose a national-security...

Can Turkey mint enough STEM kids to become a global tech player? (Andrew Wilks, Al Jazeera)

Behind the displays of fighter jets and attack helicopters on show at Istanbul’s Teknofest last week sat what is arguably Turkey’s best hope for...