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The Hope probe has three main objectives, the first is to understand the lower Martian atmosphere and its weather and climate. Yousuf continues, “The second objective is to correlate the lower atmosphere conditions with the upper atmosphere to explain how weather changes the escape of hydrogen and oxygen. And the final objective that we have …

Mapping the atmosphere on Mars can help advance science on our own planet Read More »

Cities are loud places. Traffic, trains, and machinery generate a lot of noise. While it’s a mere inconvenience much of the time, it can become a deadly problem when it comes to detecting earthquakes. That’s because it’s difficult to spot the telltale signal of an approaching earthquake in seismic sensor data amid the general human-generated …

A deep-learning algorithm could detect earthquakes by filtering out city noise Read More »

PolyJoule was started by MIT professors Tim Swager and Ian Hunter, who found that conductive polymers ticked some key boxes for energy storage. They can hold charge for a long time and charge up quickly. They are also efficient, meaning they store a large fraction of the electricity that flows into them. Being plastic, the …

These plastic batteries could help store renewable energy on the grid Read More »

Luxury auto maker Audi is driving full-throttle toward Industry 4.0, using AI inference and computer vision on the factory floor with autonomous robot welders that can react in real time and fix issues that may arise when welding the frame of a car. That’s just one example of how the company is moving toward realizing …

With 5G, AI at the edge promises a compute-everywhere future Read More »

Over the past year, the metaverse has grown from buzzword du jour to buzzword de l’année. Tech companies, game developers and brands alike are racing to claim a corner of the virtual world to come. But though the metaverse hype continues to rise — in marketing departments, at least — brands interested in activating virtually should …

In Graphic Detail: How do consumers really feel about the metaverse? Read More »

The Recount, a three-year-old news organization founded by journalists John Battelle and John Heilemann, is debuting a three-hour-long, daily live news show on Twitch today, Digiday has learned. “Recount Live” is hosted by journalists Mosheh Oinounou and Liz Plank. The show will be a mix of Oinounou and Plank presenting the news and audience interaction …

The Recount debuts streaming news show on Twitch Read More »

Late-night TV staple, John Oliver recently skewered companies such as Acxiom, Epsilon, LiveRamp and Transunion in a skit where he labeled them middlemen in a “sprawling, unregulated ecosystem which can get very creepy, very fast.” And with that unflattering description, where vulnerabilities to nefarious players were also aired, delivered to a national TV audience on …

Apple chief Tim Cook on ad tech, competition, and privacy laws Read More »

Over the last two years, advertising agencies have pledged to make the workplace better for everyone.  That’s everything from health and wellness initiatives to strategies to battle employee burnout and Zoom fatigue, to adopting flexible work policies to curb the spread of coronavirus. But perhaps the most pronounced of these pledges were efforts toward diversity, …

‘What happened to valuing the elders of our village?’ Confessions of a senior creative director on ageism in advertising Read More »

For French newspaper publisher Groupe Figaro, the best way to make money in media remains lots of ways.  Being this open minded has become a perennial state of mind for many publishing execs these days. There’s too much uncertainty around the business of media to be sure about anything. Questions remain over whether the depreciation …

‘Big steps’: Slowly, but surely French publisher Groupe Figaro’s attempts to diversify get traction Read More »