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The new infrastructure law aims to boost green technology, but will need a lot of help to fight climate change.

© 2021 EPFL At this year’s graduation ceremony, EPFL handed out Master’s degrees along with distinctions for various individuals – from the top

Opinion: Why it's impossible to predict mass shootings like San Jose Sheldon Jacobson FacebookTwitterEmail Sherrif’s deputies walk on San Pedro Street toward the First Street VTA service yard where a mass shooting took place on May 26 in San Jose, Calif.Jim Gensheimer/Special to The Chronicle If mass shootings followed any sort of intuitive logic, one might have guessed that a year of COVID-19 induced lockdowns would have at least temporarily quelled America’s propensity toward gun violence. It didn’t. Mass shootings jumped to record highs in 2020 when you include events with both death...

Artificial Intelligence technology © 2021 4X-image PyTorch is used for countless AI applications ranging from Tesla’s Autopilot to Facebook’s translation software and its latest version, just launched, features an EPFL communication-efficient training algorithm that even helps the planet. Deep learning is part of a broader family of machine learning methods, based on artificial neural networks, and has allowed us to develop everything from voice and image recognition tools, enhance drug discovery and toxicology, and improve financial fraud detection. As the applications of machine learni...

Dive Brief: With the cost of clean energy technologies plummeting, social factors may prove to be final barriers to a deep decarbonization of the U.S. economy, according to a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Thanks to a decade of rapidly declining costs, decarbonization is not only technically and financially feasible — it's actually the most economical path forward, according to the NASEM report. The report also projects that decarbonization could add 1-2 million jobs to the U.S. economy. However, without policies to ensure an equitable transition...