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May 23
New ways to build awareness with YouTube Shorts
This week at the IAB NewFronts, we’re announcing new ways to introduce Shorts into your awareness campaigns to reach highly engaged YouTube audiences.
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May 23
New Drone Can Hitch a Ride on a Moving Car
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Drones are being used for everything, it seems: surveillance, delivery tasks, search and rescue efforts. But as these handy fliers take on more unique and difficult tasks, they need to be able to land in…
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May 23
FDA Warns Consumers to Not Purchase or Use Nose Slap and Soul Slap Products Marketed for Alertness and Energy Boosting
Audience: Consumers May 1, 2023 -- FDA is warning consumers to not purchase or use Nose Slap and Soul Slap products, which are unapproved drugs marketed to promote alertness and boost energy. These products are inhalants and primarily contain...
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May 23
Transatlantic chip wars? UK needs to up its policy game, leading startup says
While the UK is being labelled as “closed for business” and Rishi Sunak is playing Unicorn Kingdom in Silicon Valley, the British chip industry risks losing some of its strongest players due to a lack of supportive policies. Based in Cambridge, UK, Pragmatic Semiconductor, funded in part by the CIA’s…
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Apr 23
Skylab: The Space Station That Fell on Australia
Fifty years ago, on 14 May 1973, a modified Saturn V rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center carrying Skylab, the United States’ first space station. Six years later, in the early hours of 12 July 1979, Skylab reentered Earth’s atmosphere in a fiery blaze, spreading debris across the Indian…
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Apr 23
Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf
It was June 1973. For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. The ARPANET and the way it handled communications was…
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Apr 23
A tribute to Alan Rickman’s life and roles
The latest Google Doodle celebrates late British actor Alan Rickman and his impact on culture in the U.K. and around the world.
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Apr 23
7 ways Google products can help you celebrate the Asian community
How you can use Google products to celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander culture for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
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Apr 23
This AI Hunts for Hidden Hoards of Battery Metals
In June 2022, six Boeing 737s—fully loaded with tents, food, satellite Internet equipment, drones, geophysical survey gear, drilling equipment, and a team of experienced geologists—flew to a remote airstrip in northern Quebec. The geologists were hunting for major deposits of the minerals needed to power a clean-energy future. Given the…
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Apr 23
Timber! The World’s First Wooden Transistor
Transistors inside modern computer chips are several nanometers across, and switch on and off at hundreds of gigahertz. Organic electrochemical transistors, made for biodegradable applications, are milimeters in size and switch at kilohertz rates. The world’s first wooden transistor, made by a collaboration of researchers through the Wallenberg Wood Science…