March 9, 1994 Are the tolls going to be too steep for the average person to travel on the electronic lanes of the coming information highway? That concerns members of a new county telecommunications consortium, who fear people too poor to buy computers or pay the access fees will be effectively shut out of the …
More than 20 million low-income households are at risk of being priced out of internet access unless Congress can reach agreement on funding for a program that provides internet service discounts. Supporters of the Affordable Connectivity Program are pressing for passage of bipartisan, bicameral legislation to keep it afloat past April, when funding is expected to run …
The winners of the Vesuvius Challenge grand prize used technology to decipher a damaged papyrus scroll Vesuvius Challenge Artificial intelligence has helped decipher an ancient papyrus scroll, which was transformed into a lump of blackened carbon by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The first passages of readable text reveal never-before-seen musings from …
In the 1960s, an audacious proposal by Joseph Licklider changed the course of history. Licklider, a visionary scientist, presented an idea to the US Department of Defense that would ultimately lead to the creation of the internet as we know it today. The proposal was simple yet revolutionary: a computer network that would connect scientists …
The cool aunt in the family who the kids love and the adults frown upon is a popular stereotype on the internet that many women aspire to be. Essentially, they aspire to be the woman who does everything she pleases, lives a free-spirited life and isn’t scared of judgment, even if it comes from her …
The Choctaw Nation, Cherokee Nation and College of the Muscogee Nation received a total of $24.1 million in federal assistance grants for education initiatives and high-speed internet. The awards issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture were announced Tuesday by Kenneth Corn, state director for the USDA’s Rural Development agency. Most of the funding, $22.3 …
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. TEL AVIV — The show must go on. Even when you are an Israeli TV comedy skit team grappling with the horror of Hamas’ October 7 assault, which killed some 1,200 people in the worst pogrom since the Holocaust. In the immediate aftermath of …
This is a beautifully written overview of the history of the life sciences targeted to teens, and is the first of a planned four-volume series © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee Sample pages: Discovering Life’s Story: Biology’s Beginnings by Joy Hakim. (Credit: MITeen Press) Joy Hakim / MITeen Press Providing a …
An engaging book about the viruses that prey on bacteria, packed with inspirational stories of eccentric scientists, medical miracles and interwoven with how science and history affect each other © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee Transmission electron micrograph of multiple bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell wall; the … [+] magnification …