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NYU review study suggests potential for gauging health risks of air pollution on individual level

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The level of practical use of these personal monitoring methods has not yet been developed to the point of directly impacting policy (e.g., There are challenges in enabling policies that limit personal exposures, but the likely improvements in health and welfare are potentially massive. —Caplin et al. billion a year.

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AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. Gao explained that they also retrained and localized this object detection model with additional images and various customized post-processing filters to compensate for the low-resolution image produced by New York City DOT video feeds.

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Archer Midnight eVTOL electric plane unveiling: service to NYC in 2025

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Electric plane manufacturer Archer has unveiled its Archer Midnight eVTOL and announced that it will be servicing New York City starting in 2025. Shortly after that, in 2025, Archer will begin service between New York City and Newark International Airport, with numerous routes planned for the future.

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Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says?

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After a few more tweaks—including making the plastic case round and adding three levels of difficulty— Simon was launched in May 1978 at Studio 54 in New York City. In 1979, for example, Milton Bradley released Super Simon , a two-player game that tested which person could repeat the sequence faster.

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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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Laker worked with the IEEE Board of Directors in the early 1990s to purchase personal computers for the organization’s leaders to make it easier to conduct IEEE business via the Internet. He went on to earn master’s and doctoral degrees in EE in 1970 and 1973 from New York University , in New York City.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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In the United States, eighth graders scored an average of 271 out of 500 in math on last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress , as highlighted in a New York Times article. Traveling and having a personal connection to Prisms VR customers,” she says, “has been really valuable in designing and updating the modules.”

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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And what do the squiggly patterns of electrical activity that can be recorded from a person’s brain reveal about them? Rafael Yuste , cofounder of the NeuroRights Foundation , in New York City, believes that the technology is forcing such questions upon us. The right to personal identity. The 5 Neurorights.

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