Simple statistical method predicts landslide risk more accurately than classic method

A relatively simple statistical analysis method can more accurately predict the risk of landslides caused by heavy rain, ...
The New York Times

The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose

Kevin recently joined the hosts of “The Wirecutter Show” for a conversation about the artificial intelligence products he’s using, strategies to make chatbots work better and his beloved robot vacuums ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Congress using a new tool to meddle in public land management

Radical? Not me. In a House Natural Resources Committee hearing earlier this year, after one lawmaker complained about “radical environmentalists,” a second lawmaker bemusedly opined that no one is ...
Frontiers

A new framework with convoluted oscillatory neural network for efficient object-based land use and land cover classification on remote sensing images

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu Rigorous urbanization leads to unprecedented climate change. Pune area in India has witnessed recent ...
The York Dispatch

DOE using its own land to help pair AI centers, nuclear reactors

WASHINGTON — The Energy Department wants to build nuclear-powered artificial intelligence data centers on federal land using new public-private partnerships. Co-locating advanced nuclear reactors with ...
Ars Technica

This Chinese company could become the country’s first to land a reusable rocket

There’s a race in China among several companies vying to become the next to launch and land an orbital-class rocket, and the starting gun could go off as soon as tonight. LandSpace, one of several ...
The Economist

Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening

The Census Bureau is just one source. Other researchers are compiling their own estimates of AI adoption; most find that the level is higher than 10% (see chart 2) . Economists argue about why these ...
9to5google

How to use Google Gemini’s built-in AI image detection tool

Tides have changed with the Gemini 3 update, bringing Nano Banana Pro image generation to a wider range of users. The images are so realistic that Google provides an extension that detects images with ...
Road & Track

An Audi SUV Based on Scout's Body-On-Frame Off-Roader Could Be On Its Way

Audi doesn’t do classic off-road-ready SUVs, but that might be changing if a new report from Automobilwoche is true: the intel suggests Audi might build a new SUV utilizing Scout’s body-on-frame ...
STAT

Top Democrat demands more detail from Medicare insurers about their use of AI

Casey Ross covers the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety, fairness, and privacy. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is pressing the nation’s largest ...
MacRumors

iPhone 17: Using the New Center Stage Front Camera

On all models in Apple's new iPhone 17 series as well as the iPhone Air, the new 18MP Center Stage front camera transforms mobile photography with its square sensor design and intelligent ...
WTVD

Town of Apex using popular land model to tackle affordable housing crisis

APEX, N.C. (WTVD) -- It was a unanimous vote at the Sept. 9 council meeting in Apex when leaders decided on the formation of a community land trust. Under the community land trust (CLT), the town ...