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Proposed Updates to Steel Building Standard Could Enhance Earthquake Resilience

January 7, 2022

Based on the results, documented in a NIST report, and a detailed analysis of the test data, researchers devised new limits for column slenderness, described in a paper published in the Journal of Structural Engineering last April.

The Router in Your Home Might Be Intercepting Some of Your Internet Traffic—for a Good Reason

December 15, 2021

The router in your home might be intercepting some of your Internet traffic and sending it to a different destination. Specifically, the router can intercept the Domain Name System traffic --the communications used to translate human-readable domain names.

Who’s got your mail? Google and Microsoft, mostly

December 6, 2021

Who really sends, receives and, most importantly perhaps, stores your business’ email? Most likely Google and Microsoft, unless you live in China or Russia. And the market share for these two companies keeps growing.

This Tool Protects Your Private Data While You Browse

November 18, 2021

A team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and Brave Software. have developed a tool that will increase protections for users’ private data while they browse the web.

Want to Throw Off Your Chatbot? Use Figurative Language

November 8, 2021

Computer scientists recently examined the performance of dialog systems, such as personal assistants and chatbots designed to interact with humans. The team found that when these systems are confronted with dialog that includes idioms or similes, their performance drops to between 10 and 20 percent.

Researchers Determine Optimum Pressure to Improve the Performance of Lithium Metal Batteries

October 18, 2021

A team of materials scientists and chemists has determined the proper stack pressure that lithium metal batteries, or LMBs, need to be subjected to during battery operation in order to produce optimal performance.

Computer Scientists Honored for Pioneering Car Cybersecurity Work

September 24, 2021

Washington investigated whether these computing systems could be hacked and how that would affect a driver's ability to control their car. Now the team has received the Golden Goose Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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