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Month: February 2025

Internet

Microsoft retires Skype, internet call pioneer

February 28, 2025 Tech Xplore

Microsoft on Friday announced it was retiring Skype, the online voice and video call pioneer that the tech titan acquired in 2011.This article was originally published on this website.

Internet

US lawmakers probe foreign pressure on tech platforms

February 28, 2025 Tech Xplore

A Congressional committee has sent subpoenas to eight US internet giants demanding to know whether foreign governments are curbing what can be seen online in the United States.This article was originally published on this website.

Math

Mathematical model improves prediction of human mobility between cities

February 27, 2025 Phys Org

How many people will travel during a given week between two specific cities? Answering this question is important for many reasons, for example, to design efficient public transport infrastructures, or, as was the case during […]

Math

What’s the shape of the universe? Mathematicians use topology to study its shape and everything in it

February 26, 2025 Phys Org

When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living on a flat plane. After all, this is why you can navigate a new city using a map: a flat piece of […]

Math

From slime molds to corporations, traveling networks chart a new path

February 26, 2025 Phys Org

You can learn a lot from a little slime mold. For Nate Cira, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in Cornell Engineering, the tiny eukaryotic organism provided inspiration for modeling “traveling networks”—connected systems that move by […]

Math

Mathematicians introduce crossing matrices to decode doubly periodic weaves

February 25, 2025 Phys Org

Doubly periodic weaves—entangled structures with repeating patterns in two independent directions—pose a mathematical challenge. Originally conceived to model real-world structures, such as woven textiles and molecular weaving of polymers, mathematicians have generalized the theory to […]

Internet

YouTube was born from a failed dating site—20 years on, the world’s biggest video platform faces new challenges

February 24, 2025 Tech Xplore

When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain www.youtube.com 20 years ago, they wanted to create an online dating site based around videos of users. In 2016, Chen […]

Internet

Dark web forum research reveals the growing threat of AI-generated child abuse images

February 20, 2025 Tech Xplore

The UK aims to be the first country in the world to create new offenses related to AI-generated sexual abuse. New laws will make it illegal to possess, create or distribute AI tools designed to […]

Math

Model suggests voter turnout alone can predict election victory margins

February 17, 2025 Phys Org

Elections are a well-documented example of collective human decision-making, with voting data available for elections globally over several decades. SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Aanjaneya Kumar, along with former colleagues at the Indian Institute of Science […]

Internet

Online shopping giants bet on AI to curb clothes returns

February 17, 2025 Tech Xplore

From sizing advice via selfies to robot stock-takers, online shopping behemoths have increasingly turned to artificial intelligence in a bid to stem the flow of bad-for-business clothes returns.This article was originally published on this website.

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