With increasing cyberattacks and government data breaches, one of the most important devices to keep secure is the one in everyone’s pocket: smartphones. The problem is that it is difficult to check that a smartphone […]
Live music can engage more than just one sense, despite it being an auditory medium. Lighting and visual effects can enhance the listening experience, but it is unclear if they can also affect the impression […]
Drawing boundaries isn’t just important for relationships with humans anymore. It could be the key to people’s relationships with their favorite AI chatbots. Researchers recently discovered that the overly agreeable behavior of chatbots depends on […]
A new study reveals that the image of a seamless global youth climate movement is fracturing as activists in the “periphery” feel increasingly sidelined by Western-centric leadership. By investigating why these local chapters face a […]
A new study by QUT researchers found that financial credit alone cannot break the cycle of poverty for women in Bangladesh. Instead, a “credit-plus” approach combining loans with tailored support delivered transformative empowerment outcomes.This post […]
How did the United States overtake Europe to become the world’s technological leader within just a few decades? A new study by researcher Frank Neffke from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) and colleagues from the […]
It is not easy to bring new technologies from the laboratory to market. Researchers and companies face very different demands for new developments and do not always find common ground. Scientists at Empa and other […]
A landmark social media addiction trial resumed Monday with a YouTube executive insisting that the Google-owned company’s aim was to give people value, not hook them on harmful binge-viewing.This post was originally published on this […]
NLP offers powerful opportunities to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—including SDG2 (Zero Hunger). In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, mounting climate change impacts, and other crises in the 2020s, […]
When the federal government brings its toughest environmental enforcement actions against polluters, they tend to be in communities of greater wealth, not the most polluted places. That’s the takeaway from a new paper co-authored by […]
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