Machine Learning Model Doubles Accuracy of Global Landslide ‘Nowcasts’ - NASA
Every year, landslides – the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope – cause thousands of deaths, billions of dollars in damages, and disruptions to
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery projec...
US startup ditches towers for unique pyramid-mounted wind turbines
An innovative floating offshore wind turbine prototype was launched in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Instead of a single anchor tower, the approach uses a pyramid base that can also passively orient itself in the direction of the blowing wind.
The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future
The first generation of corporate design leaders are transitioning out of their executive roles at companies like IBM, McKinsey, and others. What comes next?
Cohere’s non-profit research lab, C4AI, released the Aya model, a state-of-the-art, open source, massively multilingual, research LLM covering 101 languages – including more than 50 previously underserved languages.
Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them
Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like 'The New York Times' now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Leading right-wing outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart mostly permit them.
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.
Last week, Apple opened pre-orders for the Vision Pro, a $3500 “spatial computer” that is its first real “new” thing since the Apple Watch, and arguably its most notable release since the iPad or iPhone. Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the few truly reliable Apple analysts, estimates that the Vision Pro