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  • ‘Opinion-mining’ algorithm summarizes social media sentiments automatically

    ‘Opinion-mining’ algorithm summarizes social media sentiments automatically

    Documents that express an opinion abound, especially in the so-called web 2.0 era of social media and social networking. Jae-Young Chang of the Department of Computer Engineering at Hansung University, in Seoul, South Korea, suggests that there is a need to find ways to summarize their contents for a wide range of applications.

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  • Critics who say online gaming is ‘just a game’ completely miss the point

    Critics who say online gaming is ‘just a game’ completely miss the point

    Now more than ever before, the stakes are getting higher in professional gaming. E-sports should be taken seriously as both an occupation and a form of leisure. Riot Games, the developers of desktop juggernaut League of Legends, is even taking the game into Monday Night Football territory with its own weekday broadcast of the game’s major tournament.

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  • Simulating the stars at exascale requires HIP solutions

    Simulating the stars at exascale requires HIP solutions

    As GPU architectures have become the standard for scientific computing, application teams have had to retrofit their scientific codes to run on new systems. Even teams with codes that have been re-engineered for GPUs must continually adapt them for new architectures.

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  • Lab collaborates to prepare photovoltaic materials research for exascale

    Lab collaborates to prepare photovoltaic materials research for exascale

    Photovoltaic solar cells are a promising alternative to fossil fuels, but they need to be a lot more efficient before they can go into widespread use. Scientists have pushed current supercomputing power to the limit looking for that improved efficiency, but the arrival of exascale computing within the next few years will allow them to take this quest to the next level.

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    https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-lab-collaborates-photovoltaic-materials-exascale.html

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  • 3Q: Collaborating with users to develop accessible designs

    3Q: Collaborating with users to develop accessible designs

    Academic researchers and others have long struggled with making data visualizations accessible to people who are blind. One technological approach has been 3-D printing tactile representations of data, in the form of raised bar graphs and line charts. But, often, the intended users have little say in the actual design process, and the end result isn’t as effective as planned.

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    https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-3q-collaborating-users-accessible.html

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  • Last of Apple’s 42 stores in China reopen

    Last of Apple’s 42 stores in China reopen

    The last of Apple’s 42 stores in China reopened Friday, as the country slowly goes back to work following weeks of quarantine that forced the closure of businesses.

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  • Disney closes US and Paris theme parks, delays ‘Mulan’ over virus

    Disney closes US and Paris theme parks, delays ‘Mulan’ over virus

    Disney will close its giant theme parks in Florida, California and Paris and pull the releases of major blockbusters including “Mulan” over the coronavirus, it announced Thursday.

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    https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-disney-paris-theme-mulan-virus.html

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  • Pentagon ‘wishes to reconsider’ awarding JEDI contract to Microsoft

    Pentagon ‘wishes to reconsider’ awarding JEDI contract to Microsoft

    The US Department of Defense said Thursday it wants to reconsider its decision to award a multi-billion-dollar military cloud computing contract to Microsoft in a bidding process Amazon claims was tainted by politics.

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    https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-pentagon-reconsider-awarding-jedi-microsoft.html

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  • Facebook takedowns reveal sophistication of Russian trolls

    Facebook takedowns reveal sophistication of Russian trolls

    Facebook and Twitter revealed evidence Thursday suggesting that Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election are getting more sophisticated and harder to detect.

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    https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-facebook-takedowns-reveal-sophistication-russian.html

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  • Trump signs bill to help telecoms replace Huawei equipment

    Trump signs bill to help telecoms replace Huawei equipment

    President Donald Trump on Thursday signed into law a bill that provides $1 billion to help small telecom providers replace equipment made by China’s Huawei and ZTE.

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