The Biden administration has proposed banning the import or sale of connected vehicles containing Chinese or Russian components – citing a potential risk of spying and sabotage.

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Denise Green, director of the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection. Faced with competition from even cheaper Chinese competitions such as TEMU and Shein, Green says the only constant in fashion is change.

Human Ecology

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

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Diane Levitt, Senior Director of K-12 Education for Cornell Tech, whose work focuses on primary and secondary school computing education, says that there is an urgent need to rethink education and the tools required to achieve change.

education

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Peter John Loewen, professor of government at Cornell University, says there are three major uncertainties right now.

International

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Joseph McFadden, a professor of dairy cattle biology, studies ways to measure and reduce methane emissions from livestock. He says Denmark's methane tax places an “unnecessary burden” on farmers who need better tools to mitigate and measure emissions.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Food & Agriculture

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Buz Barstow, a physicist using synthetic biology to build sustainable energy technologies, comments on China's move to ban exports of rare minerals to the U.S.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Law and Policy

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Google is pausing the ability for its Gemini AI to generate images of people, after the tool was found to be creating inaccurate historical images. 

Computing & Information Sciences

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For the first time, cows at dairy farms across the U.S. have tested positive for avian flu. The virus is believed to have spread to at least five states. Cornell University experts are available to discuss impacts and precautions.

New York State

Food & Agriculture

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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A widespread technology outage has highlighted dependence on software from a handful of providers.

Engineering

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Greeshma Gadikota, director of the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group at Cornell University’s College of Engineering, comments on the discovery of lithium reserves in Arkansas and the role of emergent tech in sustainably extracting the element.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Engineering

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