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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

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Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco. Erhardt et al.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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The San Francisco–based company helps educators teach math to preuniversity students. Prisms VR Founded 2020 Headquarters San Francisco Founder Anarupa Ganguly “Prisms VR’s learning platform,” Ganguly says, “is taking problems from textbooks and bringing them to life.” million students in the system’s 1,800 schools.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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Yuste, a professor of biology at Columbia University who studies neural circuitry, has been promoting the idea of neurorights for nearly a decade now. Yuste next convened a group of neuroscientists, clinicians, ethicists, and engineers to come up with ethical priorities for neurotechnology, which they published in a 2017 Nature paper.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. Own a Level 3 in 2017. GM CEO Mary Barra announced that in 2017 it will offer its Super Cruise advanced driver assistance technology on the Cadillac CTS and possibly other models. Think of a.

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Improving Cell Reception By Making Signals Noisier

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Artemis’ technology, which they call pCells (short for “personal cells”), relies on radio waves' additive nature. The announcement was met with initial skepticism, although according to Giuseppe Caire , a professor of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin , that was (ironically enough) partly due to a miscommunication.

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Flying first class on a single domestic round trip can contribute more greenhouse gas emissions than a year of driving

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Among these flights were the three most frequently flown routes in the United Sates (New York to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to San Francisco, and Chicago to New York); the shortest flight that is code shared with a major U.S.

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