Researchers have suggested that users’ response to social outages show how social media is viewed as important as electricity and gas, and not just a mere tool of entertainment and communication. Studying the reactions of users to an outage of…
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Study Says COVID-19 Pandemic Revealed Divide in Mental Health Among College Students
According to researchers at Dartmouth College, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that young people most concerned about the virus had a likelihood of struggling with depression, self-anxiety and low self-esteem. ‘The pandemic has put students on a literal mental health…
Researchers Create AI that Reviews Products
In 2020, the computer science team of Alan Riddell, Dan Rockmore, and Keith Carlson set out to create a computer code to write product reviews. However, they struggled with a practical question. ‘Getting the code to write reviews was only…
U.S. “Fort Worth” City, First City to Mine Bitcoin
Fort Worth, Texas, is now the first city government in the U.S. to mine bitcoin. A small mining farm was constructed in City Hall, supervised by Mayor Mattie Parker. The three mining rigs will run 24/7 all through the week…
Mobile App Makes it Possible to test for Neurological Disease at Home
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego recently developed a mobile app that allows people test for ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, as well as other neurological diseases just by recording closeups of their eyes. The app makes use of a…
Non-Invasive Respiratory Support Success could be linked to Reducing Breathing Breathing Efforts of COVID-19 Patients
Engineering researchers from the University of Warwick and their team have used computational modelling to illustrate that non-invasive respiratory support has a greater chance of being successful if it allows reductions in the breathing efforts of patients. They compared the…
Despite Apple’s ATT, your iOS App may be Tracking You
In 2021, Apple enacted the App Tracking Transparency policy, preventing app creators from tracking activities of users across other apps without first obtaining their permission. The policy was highly praised by privacy advocates, though it was also warned that it…
Volunteers Make Concerted Effort to Preserve Ukraine’s Digital Culture
Quinn Dombrowski and 1,300 other volunteers are in a scramble to save Ukraine’s digital culture before the servers and computers that store them are destroyed. Digital culture includes the images, videos, websites and others stored by libraries, museums, companies and…
New Hack Attack Disrupts Charging of Electric Vehicles
A collection of academics from the University of Oxford and Armasuisse S+T recently revealed a novel attack technique against the popular Combined Charging System (CCS) which has the potential to disrupt the ability to charge electric vehicles. Referred to as…
New ML Model Allows Researchers Identify People with PTSD through Text Data
Researchers in the University of Alberta recently trained a machine learning model to detect people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) by mere analysis of texts these people wrote with 80% accuracy. The model has potential of becoming an accessible and…