TRENTON, NJ (AP) New Jersey casinos want to expand the nation’s top Internet gambling market for another 10 years, but state lawmakers could only approve it for two more years. A state assembly committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would originally have allowed gambling in online casinos until 2033. But the committee changed it … Read more
Alexander Nelson, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering, received the CAREER award from the Human-Centered Computing program of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. This is the most prestigious award presented by the foundation to support young faculty who demonstrate the most effective integration … Read more
WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) – The White House on Monday split $42 billion among the nation’s 50 U.S. states and territories to make access to high-speed broadband universal by 2030, launching a new ad campaign for economic policies of President Joe Biden. Funding under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program was authorized under the … Read more
The Internet is descending into a hurricane of AI-generated nonsense, and no one knows how to stop it. That’s the sobering possibility presented in a couple of papers examining AI models trained on AI-generated data. This possibly avoidable fate is nothing new to AI researchers. But these two new findings bring to the fore some … Read more
The investment aims to add up to 290 new jobs and fund research and development projects for next-generation AI, data centers, networks and 6G communication infrastructure DUBLIN, Ireland, June 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced plans for continued growth in Ireland through an investment … Read more
Apple made waves earlier this month when it finally revealed its long-awaited foray into the world of mixed or extended reality. That the company has set its sights on this market is certainly no secret. Indeed, the delayed announcement (at least by market standards) has raised some questions as to whether it was just wishful … Read more
People line the streets as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visits Lusaka, Zambia April 1. Kent Nishimura – Los Angeles Times – Getty Images During a trip to Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia in April, Vice President Kamala Harris announced more than $1 billion in public and private investment to bridge the digital divide in Africa, … Read more
This week, residents of several communities in North Slope and Northwest Alaska experienced outages in their Internet and cellular service caused by a cut to their undersea fiber optic network. The cut could take up to two months to fix, and telecom service providers are looking for short-term solutions to get service back online. Quintillion, … Read more
Splinternet refers to how the internet is fragmented, divided, separated, blocked, boxed in, or otherwise segmented. For both nation states and corporations, there is money and control to be gained by influencing the information people can access and share, as well as the costs that are paid for this access. The idea of ​​a splinternet … Read more
For Harvard students today, technology is virtually inevitable. Students select courses, submit assignments, and even attend classes through various online platforms. The Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Design have gone so far as to explicitly require students to have computers. But that wasn’t always the case. In a 2017 … Read more
