Social influencers: What can we learn from animals?
Research from Oxford University calls us to reconsider how behaviours may spread through societies of wild animals, and how this might provide new insights into human social networks.
Research from Oxford University calls us to reconsider how behaviours may spread through societies of wild animals, and how this might provide new insights into human social networks.
Evolution
Dec 3, 2019
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Gossip is an efficient way to share information across large networks and has unexpected applications in solving other mathematical and machine-learning problems.
Machine learning & AI
Jul 8, 2019
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A new mathematical model of the structure of networks could help find new cancer drugs, speed up traffic flow and combat sexually transmitted disease.
General Physics
Jun 25, 2019
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Long before Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and even MySpace, early Mississippian Mound cultures in America's southern Appalachian Mountains shared artistic trends and technologies across regional networks that functioned in ...
Archaeology
Feb 19, 2019
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Flexible skin for soft robots, embedded with electrical nanowires, combines conductivity with sensitivity within the same material.
Robotics
Dec 11, 2018
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While a mobile phone or PC is traditionally controlled by only one user, many players come together in a networked household, some of whom even want to control devices simultaneously. Researchers from the Horst Görtz Institute ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 24, 2018
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Charlie Ergen, the founder of satellite TV company Dish, is stepping aside as CEO to focus on the company's wireless business.
Business
Dec 5, 2017
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A state-owned Russian company has opened up a second internet connection for North Korea which could strengthen Pyongyang's cyber capabilities and undermine US efforts to isolate the regime, security experts said.
Telecom
Oct 5, 2017
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Based on data from the VKontakte social network, researchers at Higher School of Economics and the Vienna Medical University have found a relationship between students' academic performance and their closest social environment. ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2017
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Apple confirmed that its new Series 3 Apple Watch can encounter problems connecting to a cellular network. The problems arise when the watch joins unauthenticated Wi-Fi networks without connectivity.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 20, 2017
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