Researchers have demonstrated that they can make a working 3D-printed copy of a key just by listening to how the key sounds when inserted into a lock. Slashdot reader colinwb writes: While you cannot hear the shape of a drum it seems you can hear the shape of one type of key from the sound it makes in the lock. That…
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FDA approves new saliva test for COVID-19 that’s simple, cheap and available now
The test doesn’t require any proprietary equipment or technology, meaning designated laboratories could follow a specific protocol to conduct their own tests. Source: https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-saliva-test-yale.html
Quantum researchers create an error-correcting cat
Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat—a new device that combines the Schrödinger’s cat concept of superposition (a physical system existing in two states at once) with the ability to fix some of the trickiest errors in a quantum computation. …
Judge Urged To Release Documents About Google’s Cellphone Tracking
Eight weeks ago Arizona’s attorney general sued Google for allegedly deceiving users about when location data would be collected from their phones, tracking them without their clear consent. . Now an Arizona congressman and more than two dozen researchers from institutions including Yale, MIT, and Cornell are urging a judge to publicly release the documents collected during that investigation: The documents…
Announcing the Coursera 2020 Global Skills Index
By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO, Coursera In a few short months, COVID-19 has profoundly reshaped our world. The economic devastation has been staggering, affecting the lives of more than 555 million workers and 200 million higher education students. As we begin to revive jobs and economies, it will be important to understand the impact of the […]
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Helping college and university students regain control of their learning amid the pandemic with free access to Coursera
By Shravan Goli, Chief Product Officer, Coursera Nearly 70% of the world’s students remain impacted by campus closures due to the coronavirus. Among them are hundreds of millions of students in colleges and universities around the world. Uncertain of when they will be able to fully return to campus, and with many summer internships […]
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Under pressure, black holes feast
A new, Yale-led study shows that some supermassive black holes actually thrive under pressure. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-05-pressure-black-holes-feast.html…
Is Big Tech About to Take Over Higher Education?
“In 2017, Scott Galloway anticipated Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods a month before it was announced,” reports New York magazine (in an article shared by long-time Slashdot reader Faizdog). Galloway teaches marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, and he’s now predicting the pandemic “has greased the wheels for big tech’s entree into higher education.”
The post-pandemic future, he says,…
Dogs Obey Commands Given by Social Robots
Long time reader schwit1 shares a report: At the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2020), researchers at Yale University’s Social Robotics Lab led by Brian Scassellati presented a paper taking the first step towards determining whether dogs, which are incredibly good at understanding social behaviors in humans, see human-ish robots as agents — or more specifically, whether dogs see…
2020 Coursera Virtual Conference: Reflections and Resources
By the Coursera Conference Team The Coursera Conference is an opportunity for our global community to engage around innovative teaching and learning experiences. This year, after careful consideration for the growing concerns surrounding the spread of COVID-19, the Coursera Conference transitioned from a two day, in-person event to a free, fully virtual experience focused on […]
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