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Myeong Lee, Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, is working to understand how people use the 311 non-emergency issue-reporting system during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cryptocurrencies may be the way of the future. At least, that’s what many are betting on. The popularity of cryptocurrencies is attracting a number of people – including hackers. Hackers are currently finding low-cost ways to “mine” Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency illegally by tapping into everyday people’s computers and using those machines’ resources without their consent. The result? Hackers make millions mining cryptocurrency using other people’s computers. Meanwhile, the vic...

Myeong Lee, Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, is working to understand how people use the 311 non-emergency issue-reporting system during the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Thursday, WPSU hosted a community discussion about the role of Black churches in central Pennsylvania and throughout the civil rights movement. Will Price, a 2017 Penn State graduate from

 E-Mail UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Did you ever wonder how social networking applications like Facebook and LinkedIn make recommendations on the people you should friend or pages you should follow? Behind the scenes are machine learning models that classify nodes based on the data they contain about users -- for example, their level of education, location or political affiliation. The models then use these classifications to recommend people and pages to each user. But there is significant bias i...

Richard Canevez, recipient of the prestigious Computing Innovation Fellowship ( CIFellows), has joined the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Social Sciences as a postdoctoral researcher. At UH Mānoa, Canevez will lead a study to examine the connection between communication technologies and the de-escalation of violence in social movements. “Recent social movement events illustrated the essential differences between violent and nonviolent movements. Movements that maintain a nonvio...

Supplied A non-profit organisations group of matrics in Diepsloot achieved a 100% pass rate in Maths for the fourth consecutive year. OLICO has been  Due to Covid-19, the class of 2020 were assisted in WhatsApp lessons. A non-profit organisation which has been providing supplementary Maths support to high school pupils has helped its Diepsloot Class of 2020 achieve a 100% pass rate for Maths. OLICO said that in assisting the class of 2020 to cope throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, it shifted to...

She said pupils attended after-school classes two to three times a week. Matriculant Rendani Singo joined OLICO six years ago. He said studying during lockdown was hard and challenging. “I am excited to pursue my dream career in Information Sciences,” Singo said. Her classmate Respond Mabeba said: “Studying during lockdown was difficult, but OLICO provided data to do some online studying with them and it made the studying during lockdown very simple for us. OLICO helped me to pass Maths, ...

Georgia Mother of 5 Left Tech Job and Launched Kombucha Business (Image Credit: Instagram/kemboocha) When Kemiko Lawrence discovered the powerful benefits of Kombucha, she knew she had to share it with her family. But paying $7.00 per bottle as a wife and mother of five children was not a feasible option. Lawrence did her research, started making it for her family, and sold it to people in her network. Now, the Georgia resident has been brewing kombucha for over a decade. She developed her own ...

Introduces Women+Tech Scholars Program NAPERVILLE, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Working to close the opportunity gap for women in STEM careers, DeVry University launches its new Women+Tech Scholars Program. The COVID-19 pandemic created a perfect storm for women in the workforce — disproportionate job loss and the rapid acceleration of technology. This problem could be amplified even more in the technology sector as a flood of women leaves the workforce, an industry where they were already underr...