‘X’ logo installed atop Twitter building, spurring San Francisco to investigate permit violation

A large, metal “X” sign is seen on top of the downtown building that housed what was once Twitter, now rebranded by its owner, Elon Musk, in San Francisco, Friday,…

Automaker Tesla is opening more showrooms on tribal lands to avoid state laws barring direct sales

A sign bearing the Tesla company logo is displayed outside a Tesla store in Cherry Creek Mall in Denver, Feb. 9, 2019. Mohegan Sun, a casino and entertainment complex in…

AI Traces Emotional Contagion – Neuroscience News

Summary: Researchers artificial intelligence (AI) to measure the risk of “emotional contagion” among relationship professionals, such as social workers and psychologists. This emotional contagion, an unconscious transfer of emotions, can…

Journeys Beyond: Contrasting Psychedelic Trips and Near-Death Experiences

Summary: A research study scrutinizes the parallels and differences between a near-death experience (NDE) during a coma and the experience induced by a potent psychedelic drug, 5-Methoxy-DMT (5MeO-DMT). The researchers…

Making smart city infrastructure watertight in Vietnam

Hạ Long Bay, Thành phố Hạ Long, Quảng Ninh, Vietnam. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Research in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures offers guidance on securing water critical infrastructures and…

Hurricane Maria offered an opportunity to make Puerto Rico’s electric grid more resilient: It hasn’t happened

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain After Hurricane Maria razed the electrical grid in Puerto Rico nearly six years ago, there was a lot of talk about making the energy system more…

New smartphone vulnerability could allow hackers to track user location

Hackers may use machine learning to exploit a text-messaging vulnerability, according to new research led by Northeastern Ph.D. student Evangelos Bitsikas. Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University A newly discovered vulnerability in…

A divide and conquer approach to leads-to model checking for large-scale systems

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Model checking is one of the most successful computer science achievements in the last few decades. This is why Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and…

Adoption of ‘Industry 4.0’ systems can lead to sustainability across organizations

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Adaptive “smart” technologies and integrated production systems driven by digital transformation are helping to accelerate more sustainable products and industries, Flinders University experts say. Adoption of…

Hollow carbon co-doped anatase titanium dioxide spheres hold promise for high-performance metal ion batteries

(a, b) Scanning electron microscopy, (c, d) transmission electron microscopy, (e, f) high resolution transmission electron microscopy and (g-i) energy-dispersive system mapping images of HS-TiO2. Credit: Li Zhaoqian By changing…