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Big tech and community colleges team up in education

Big tech and community colleges team up in education

Neethi Anand Gangidi came from India to the United States to study Chemical Engineering. But when the Covid-19 pandemic created difficulties for him doctorate studies, she changed direction by studying artificial intelligence, or AI, at Houston Community College (HCC) in Texas. At HCC, Gangidi and a team of students worked on a difficult problem: finding …

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Ohio County Volunteer Recovery Team helped expedite tornado relief

Ohio County Volunteer Recovery Team helped expedite tornado relief

In the destructive aftermath of the EF-4 tornado, volunteers began gathering when the sun rose Dec. 11, 2021, at Brown’s Farm Fresh Produce on Kentucky 69, just north of Hartford. It became the makeshift base of a major volunteer effort that would become the Ohio County Long-Term Recovery Team. Matthew Sickling, the team’s general manager, …

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Team UW's hearing loss detection hack could change lives around the world

Team UW’s hearing loss detection hack could change lives around the world

Ninety-nine percent of infants in the United States are screened for hearing loss at birth. But when you look around the world, that number drops to just 40%. Failure to diagnose hearing problems early on can have major implications for these children. But a team of scientists from the University of Washington has created a …

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ACLU lawsuit claims grandmother's house was 'unlawfully' raided by SWAT team for stolen iPhone 11

ACLU lawsuit claims grandmother’s house was ‘unlawfully’ raided by SWAT team for stolen iPhone 11

Ruby Johnsona 77-year-old grandmother and retired civil servant from Colorado, says she was home alone in January when a Denver Police Department SWAT team arrived in an armored vehicle with at least 8 officers wearing a full armor and carrying automatic weapons that tore his house apart in search of a missing iPhone. Police found …

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Mobile Threat Defense: BlackBerry and Samsung team up to improve protection

Mobile Threat Defense: BlackBerry and Samsung team up to improve protection

The rise in the number of remote workers fueled by the pandemic has led to an increase in the use of mobile and BYOD (bring your own device) in enterprises and small businesses. As you might expect, it didn’t take long for cybercriminals to take advantage of the boom in the business mobility market. With …

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Microsoft's Activision deal hangs on long-term FTC deal team Biden hates

Microsoft’s Activision deal hangs on long-term FTC deal team Biden hates

(Bloomberg) – The best chance for Microsoft Corp. to win US regulators’ approval for its $69 billion Activision Blizzard Inc. deal is to persuade the Biden administration to agree to a settlement in which the Xbox maker agrees not to withhold its popular titles of its rivals. Bloomberg’s Most Read It’s a very long shot …

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