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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 […]

Computers

AI model mimics human goal-setting through game creation

February 26, 2025 Tech Xplore

While we are remarkably capable of generating our own goals, beginning with child’s play and continuing into adulthood, we don’t yet have computer models for understanding this human ability.This article was originally published on this […]

Computers

New report explores merging Web 3.0 with AI technologies

February 25, 2025 Tech Xplore

The Surrey Academy for Blockchain and Metaverse Applications (SABMA), a pioneering institution within the University of Surrey, is proud to announce the release of its groundbreaking report: Web 3.0 Protocol-as-Platform: Vision and Framework for Decentralized […]

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 […]

Computers

New study identifies differences between human and AI-generated text

February 25, 2025 Tech Xplore

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers set out to see how accurately large language models (LLMs) can match the style of text written by humans. Their findings were recently published in the Proceedings of […]

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 […]

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