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Your Personal Data Is Worth Money, and Andrew Yang Wants to Get You Paid
Singularity Hub - 28 Jun 2020 16:00
Contact tracing has been a somewhat controversial tool for fighting coronavirus in the US. American consumers wanted privacy to be preserved, so Apple and Google set about devising an API that could help track potential ...
Mysterious radiation spike detected over Scandinavia
Live Science - 28 Jun 2020 14:00
Experts have said that a slight spike in radioactivity above northern Europe likely originated in Russia, but Russian nuclear plants in the area deny any abnormalities.
'Spear and shield' inspire high toughness microstructure
EurekAlert! - 28 Jun 2020 06:00
(University of Science and Technology of China) Researchers designed a discontinuous fibrous Bouligand (DFB) architecture and tested the 3D-printed single-edge notched specimens with such architecture for optimization pa...
New solar forecasting model performs best
EurekAlert! - 28 Jun 2020 06:00
(Uppsala University) A new mathematical model for predicting variations in solar irradiance has been developed at Uppsala University. It may help to promote more efficient use of electricity from solar energy. In tests o...
Researchers employ antennas for angstrom displacement sensing
EurekAlert! - 28 Jun 2020 06:00
(University of Science and Technology of China) Micro -- nano Optics and Technology Research Group led by Prof. LU Yonghua and Prof. WANG Pei from University of Science and Technology of China realized nanometric displac...