Amazon said Monday that it needs to hire 100,000 people across the U.S. to keep up with a crush of orders as the coronavirus spreads and keeps more people at home, shopping online. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-amazon-hire-surge.html Views: 0
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Brown University have developed new approaches that significantly improve the accuracy of an important material testing technique by harnessing the power of machine learning. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-machine-learning-technique-sharpens-material-mechanical.html Views: 0
Google sister company Verily has launched a website to screen people who think they might have COVID-19 and point them to testing sites. But you probably can’t use it to get tested quite yet. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-google-sibling-verily-covid-screening.html Views: 0
U.S. airlines are asking the federal government for grants, loans and tax relief that could easily top $50 billion to help them recover from a sharp downturn in travel due to the new coronavirus. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-airlines-bn-federal-loans-grants.html Views: 0
Models and algorithms for analyzing complex networks are widely used in research and affect society at large through their applications in online social networks, search engines, and recommender systems. According to a new study, however, one widely used algorithmic approach for modeling these networks is fundamentally flawed, failing to capture important properties of real-world complex…
Secret digital intrusions into our computers and mobile devices have garnered increasing attention in recent times. But a decidedly lower-tech assault has also been troublesome: shoulder surfing. You know the types: friends, work colleagues and assorted passers-by who walk by you and can’t resist quietly peeking over your shoulder at the content of your screen…
When you smell an orange, the scent is most likely combined with several others: car exhaust, garbage, flowers, soap. Those smells bind simultaneously to the hundreds of receptors in your brain’s olfactory bulb, obscuring one another, yet you can still recognize the smell of an orange, even when it’s blended with a totally different pattern…
Major world airlines on Monday axed almost all flights on a temporary basis as the worsening coronavirus crisis sparks travel bans, ravages demand and sends shares into freefall, triggering pleas to help carriers survive. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-global-airlines-slash-flights-virus.html Views: 0
Some commercial password managers may be vulnerable to cyber-attack by fake apps, new research suggests. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-expose-vulnerabilities-password.html Views: 0
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyberattack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-health-agency-cyber-attack-covid-response.html Views: 0