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Air bag deployment - Courtesy AAA Michigan DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Drivers often travel faster than posted speed limits, but when officials raise speed limits to match travel speeds, people just go faster, according to a report from AAA Michigan. Drivers want to save time, and local transportation agencies want to improve traffic flow, but at what cost? With posted speed limits increasing on roadways around the country, AAA says a vehicle’s ability to protect drivers in crashes is in doubt. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and Hu...

A New Kind of Theater Beats the Coronavirus Blues Performing outside a theater is perfect for a pandemic. A scene from "Detained." Courtesy of Pop-Up Theater In 2020 the independent Pop-Up Theater celebrated its five-year anniversary. Its founder and stage director Semyon Alexandrovsky told The Moscow Times that it began when his wife and producer Anastasia Kim was pregnant. He decided to spend more time at home and turned down offers to perform on tour. In his free time, he and his friend Maxim Fomin, an actor, began to rehearse the play “Fuel”...

QCRI awarded Facebook grant for project on privacy personas  07 Jan 2021 - 8:31 The Automatic Personal Generation team leading the project. The Peninsula Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) has been awarded a major research grant from Facebook for a new collaborative study examining digital privacy concerns in 21 Middle Eastern and North African (Mena) countries. QCRI secured one of only five awards for their project titled “Privacy Personas in the Mena Region: A Large-Scale Analysis of 21 Countries” under Facebook’s ‘People’s Expectat...

HBKU's CSE awarded prestigious joint QNRF-TUBITAK grants  19 Dec 2020 - 9:20 The Peninsula Doha: Faculty at the College of Science and Engineering (CSE) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) have been awarded two substantial three-year research grants under the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)-TÜBİTAK Joint Funding Program. The competitive third cycle of the program was held under the theme of ‘Smart Cities’. HBKU’s Dr. Marwa Qaraqe, Lead Principal Investigator, and Dr. David Yang, Principal Investigator, both Assistant Professors at the Information and Technology Computing Div...

Ania Vu NEWBURYPORT — The Newburyport Chamber Music Festival brings back “Winter Baroque” to celebrate the holidays as part of its “Season 2020 Reimagined.” The prerecorded concert, scheduled for Dec. 20 at 3 p.m., will feature audience favorites, violinist Nurit Pacht and Eliana Razzino Yang on cello. The audience can still gather virtually with friends and family members for the concert that day. Pacht will perform selected canons from Bach’s “Art of the Fugue,” a sonata for violin and cello by Italian composer Francesco Maria Veracini, and a Baroque ...