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Carnegie Mellon to Pay Students $4.8M for Shifting to Remote Classes During COVID

Carnegie Mellon University has agreed to pay $4.8 million to settle a class action brought on behalf of students whose in-person classes were moved online when the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. The proposed settlement has been agreed to by …

How Family-Work-Neighbor Networks May Make Things Worse in Disaster Response

Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might save lives, fail to alert each other to danger and spread misinformation. Those may sound like behaviors associated with the current pandemic, but they actually surfaced in experiments on …

Federal Judge in Pittsburgh Orders $1.54B Payout in Marvell Patent Verdict

A federal judge ordered Marvell Technology Group Ltd to pay nearly $1.54 billion for infringing two hard disk drive patents held by Carnegie Mellon University, nearly one-third more than a jury had previously awarded. In a decision late Monday, U.S. …