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“Besides, InSight has perhaps the coolest sequence for setting up its instruments: delicately lifting two of its instruments over the side and gently lowering them onto the surface, like a robot stevedore unloading its cargo on an alien world.”
Jonathan Lunine
David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences
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“After Congress struggled to understand how Facebook operated, and thus what its responsibilities ought to be, we should expect even more confusion in testimony from Google. Social networks sites are a recent invention, but the basic concept of what they do is intuitive to human beings, whereas search engines are much more complex, which makes their public responsibility much harder to gauge."
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
Related Tip Sheet:
Right-left political bias in the spotlight with Google testimony (12/06/18)
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"The U.S. has always been a leader in AI research and development but other countries are now catching up fast with heavy investments from governments and industry."
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
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"An accident like this calls for a re-evaluation of how to introduce and further develop the self-driving technology so that people will come to recognize and accept it as feasible and very safe."
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
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"The number pi (3.14159265...) has intrigued scientists and mathematicians for thousands of years. It is defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (the same amount, no matter how big or small the circle!) but has eluded easy computation."
Media:
Jeff Tyson
jeff.tyson@cornell.edu
(607) 793-5769
Related Tip Sheet:
Pi Day: 10 trillion digits and counting (03/07/18)
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“In this case a warrant was issued by a court upon demonstration that there was probable cause of the commission of a specific crime, and therefore not a fishing expedition.
Media:
Rachel Rhodes
rer252@cornell.edu
202-434-8036
Related Tip Sheet:
In U.S. v. Microsoft, warrant should trump privacy (02/23/18)
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“If network providers like AT&T merge with major content distributors, they might be inclined to raise prices on other content providers and potentially drive them out of business. Their opportunity to dominate both industries would be magnified by the potential repeal of net neutrality in coming weeks.”
Media:
Rebecca Valli
rv234@cornell.edu
202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet:
AT&T-Time Warner deal made worse by repeal of net neutrality (12/11/17)
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"As with any electronic devices, parents should closely monitor and regulate children’s use of a device and their time spent on it so that it does not displace other developmentally appropriate activities such as outdoor-play, exercise time, or face-to-face interactions with peers."
Media:
Daryl Lovell
dal296@cornell.edu
607-592-3925
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