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  • Uber shares surge after citing signs of rebound from virus slump

    Uber shares surge after citing signs of rebound from virus slump

    Uber shares surged Thursday after the ridesharing giant suggested it is seeing the “beginnings of a recovery” in parts of the world following a brutal coronavirus-induced slump.

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  • Facebook appears to have a bug flagging posts as ‘spam’

    Facebook appears to have a bug flagging posts as ‘spam’

    If you’re trying to post a news story on Facebook, the platform might just stop you from doing that—even if the link is to a reputable source.

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  • Nature-inspired green energy technology clears important development hurdle

    Nature-inspired green energy technology clears important development hurdle

    Scientist Heinz Frei has spent decades working toward building an artificial version of one of nature’s most elegant and effective machines: the leaf.

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  • Portable AI device turns coughing sounds into health data for flu and pandemic forecasting

    Portable AI device turns coughing sounds into health data for flu and pandemic forecasting

    University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have invented a portable surveillance device powered by machine learning—called FluSense—which can detect coughing and crowd size in real time, then analyze the data to directly monitor flu-like illnesses and influenza trends.

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  • Virus-shocked Hollywood gets break with streaming services

    Virus-shocked Hollywood gets break with streaming services

    Sports are on hold, theaters are closed and so are amusement parks, a disaster-movie scenario that has Hollywood reeling. But Americans held captive at home by the coronavirus can turn to Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other streaming services, outliers in an entertainment industry brought to an unprecedented standstill.

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  • We’re getting better at wildlife conservation, AI study of scientific abstracts suggests

    We’re getting better at wildlife conservation, AI study of scientific abstracts suggests

    Researchers are using a kind of machine learning known as sentiment analysis to assess the successes and failures of wildlife conservation over time. In their study, appearing March 19 in Patterns—a new open access data science journal from Cell Press—the researchers assessed the abstracts of more than 4,000 studies of species reintroduction across four decades and found that, generally speaking, we’re getting better and better at reintroducing species to the wild. They say that machine learning could be used in this field and others to identify the best techniques and solutions from among the ever-growing volume of scientific research.

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  • No, Microsoft won’t necessarily be serving up new Xbox for Thanksgiving

    No, Microsoft won’t necessarily be serving up new Xbox for Thanksgiving

    For a few minutes on Tuesday, the impending arrival of the new Xbox video game console became clearer—then that update disappeared in the ether.

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  • Trying to order groceries online? Some tips to do it successfully

    Trying to order groceries online? Some tips to do it successfully

    If you’ve tried ordering groceries for delivery this week, it isn’t you. In a coronavirus era, the old rules and expectations have been thrown out the window.

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  • Lyft looking to add food, medical supplies delivery service

    Lyft looking to add food, medical supplies delivery service

    Ride-sharing company Lyft says it is exploring government and health care partnerships to create safer earning opportunities for drivers by having them deliver medical supplies, food and other items.

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