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Bullying, racism and being ‘different’: Why some families are opting for remote learning regardless of COVID-19

October 14, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked a public debate about the value of learning online for elementary school students. Much of this dialogue has been negative, with a focus on the experiences that children are missing by […]

Global economy 2023: how countries around the world are tackling the cost of living crisis

March 10, 2023

UK: recession on the horizon At first sight, the UK’s cost of living crisis might look fairly mild compared to other countries. Its inflation rate was 10.7% in November 2022, compared to 12.6% in Italy, 16.% in […]

Human rights could address the health and environmental costs of food production

October 14, 2021

Industrially produced food appears to be cheap but is actually very expensive. Recent estimates of the hidden costs of today’s food systems range from US$12 trillion to US$20 trillion annually. These mind-boggling figures include food’s devastating […]

Ultra-low power neuromorphic hardware show promise for energy-efficient AI computation

October 30, 2024

A team including researchers from Seoul National University College of Engineering has developed neuromorphic hardware capable of performing artificial intelligence [...]
Generative AI could generate millions of tons of e-waste by decade’s end, study finds

October 29, 2024

A team of urban environmentalists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Urban Environment, working with a colleague from [...]
Magnetic RAM-based architecture could pave way for implementing neural networks on edge IoT devices

October 28, 2024

There are, without a doubt, two broad technological fields that have been developing at an increasingly fast pace over the [...]
AI mimics neocortex computations with ‘winner-take-all’ approach

October 25, 2024

Over the past decade or so, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced computational techniques that can tackle real-world tasks with [...]
Semiconductor-free logic gates pave the way for fully 3D-printed active electronics

October 15, 2024

Active electronics—components that can control electrical signals—usually contain semiconductor devices that receive, store, and process information. These components, which must [...]
New infrared camera aims to enhance safety in autonomous driving

October 10, 2024

Fall is here, bringing rain, fog, and early darkness. For road users, this means heightened caution, as visibility conditions increasingly [...]
New methodology enables design of cloud servers for lower carbon

October 4, 2024

Reducing carbon emissions is crucial to curbing the effects of climate change, but usually gas-powered vehicles and manufacturers are the [...]
Research team develops hardware architecture for post-quantum cryptography

October 3, 2024

Integrating post-quantum security algorithms into hardware has long been considered a challenge. But a research team at TU Graz has [...]
Germany inaugurates IBM’s first European quantum data center

October 1, 2024

Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday inaugurated US firm IBM’s first quantum data center in Europe, saying Germany aims to be [...]
A pruning approach for neural network design optimized for specific hardware configurations

September 23, 2024

Neural network pruning is a key technique for deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models based on deep neural networks (DNNs) on [...]
How a national lab retires—and shreds—large computing resources

September 19, 2024

Ever wonder what happens to massive supercomputing systems when they’re retired? Surprisingly, when it comes to the data, it’s not [...]