TECHNOLOGY

The global interest in the licensing of new and innovative reactors has seen a significant rise. The Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) organised a workshop focused on HTGR technology on 18-20 March 2024. Key topics included validation and verification of codes, fuel safety, research needs, probabilistic safety assessment, defense-in-depth principles applicability, materials selection, and regulatory infrastructure.
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2 years ago Read more at Nuclear Energy Agency

In recent years, the satellite industry has proactively collaborated with the mobile industry and other stakeholders in various forums, such as 3GPP, to ensure the integration of satellite technologies into the 5G ecosystem. Key improvements have been made to account for satellite latency and doppler effects, specifically designed to support a wide range of network deployment scenarios, orbits, terminal types (handheld, IoT, vehicle-mounted), frequency bands, and beam types. This is an exciting development as it enables satellite direct-to-dev
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2 years ago Read more at The Critical Communications Review

“Message from Our Planet” is an exhibit on display at the Chazen Museum of Art. It fuses modern technology with age-old storytelling methods to “evoke a similar multi-vocal message by artists who share a human desire to be understood across time and space,” curator Jason Foumberg said. The exhibit features artwork from 19 international artists and artists groups.
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2 years ago Read more at Daily Cardinal

Apple is the largest of the four main tech giants, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Google, all of which have market capitalisations of more than a trillion dollars. All four have been investigated by regulators in the United States and Europe in recent years following complaints that they are monopolising the tech market by stifling competition. In its legal challenge, the Department of Justice alleges that Apple is illegally preventing competition by restricting access to its hardware and software.
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2 years ago Read more at Al Jazeera English

In-cabin monitoring, comprising both Driver Monitoring System (DMS) and Occupancy Monitoring System, has experienced significant growth since the start of 2024. The cost per ToF sensor typically ranges between US$20 and US$40, with the potential for even lower costs at higher volumes. IDTechEx presents insights into the trend of integrating DMS and OMS solutions, particularly at the software level.
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2 years ago Read more at PR Newswire

Hayfield blew past the Thomas Jefferson Science & Technology Colonials 14-6. That result was just more of the same for these two, as Hayfield also won the last time the pair played back in April of 2023. Hayfield dropped their record down to 1-4 with that defeat.
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2 years ago Read more at MaxPreps

Zebra’s fifth annual International Branch Banking Employee Survey revealed half of managers and staff intend to leave their positions in the next 12 months because of low job satisfaction. About half (49%) of branch employees spend more time weekly on administrative and operational tasks than on serving customers. Another finding in the study showed 75% of customers are waiting in line for more than six minutes, and a quarter shared that their wait times exceeded 11 minutes.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

Somerville City Councilor At Large Willie Burnley Jr. introduced an order to discuss the effectiveness and placement of the ShotSpotter software, recently re-branded to Sound Thinking. He added that he has civil right concerns with roughly 35 sensors placed in somerville, primarily in communities of color. SoundThinking Inc. disputed all of those claims Tuesday night, with a spokesperson for the company saying, in part, Black boys and young men are disproportionately affected by gun violence.
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2 years ago Read more at NBC Boston

Shirli Zelcer is incoming chief data and technology officer of Dentsu. It’s the repetitive learning and training through data that trains machines to perform and automate tasks, synthesize information and generate content on demand. He says that’s a huge differentiator for us right now — giving our clients access to that kind of information at their fingertips.
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2 years ago Read more at Digiday

China has by some metrics eclipsed the United States as the biggest producer of A.I. talent. By contrast, about 18 percent come from U.S. undergraduate institutions. The findings show a jump for China, which produced about one-third of the world’s top talent three years earlier.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times