How Uber steers its drivers toward better performance

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research shows that the app’s ratings and incentive system has made drivers in Chicago as safe and reliable as taxi drivers. The findings suggest regulators…

Towards better earthquake risk assessment with machine learning and geological survey data

By including geographic coordinates, elevation, and stratigraphic information as input variables, researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology have compared three different ML algorithms (RF, ANN, and SVM) for predicting the…

Robotic drummer gradually acquires human-like behaviors

Robot Drummer executing a cymbal (dark brown) strike in a learned rhythmic sequence. Credit: Shahid, Braghin & Roveda. Humanoid robots, robots with a human-like body structure, have so far been…

EPA cancels $7 billion Biden-era grant program to boost solar energy

by ALEXA ST. JOHN and MATTHEW DALY Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin arrives before President Donald Trump speaks during an AI summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Wednesday,…

Jesus chatbots are on the rise. A philosopher puts them to the test

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is getting better at imitating human beings. It can create things that previously only humans could produce, like music, texts and images.…

The energy source that could survive Trump’s attack on California’s green ambitions

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain At a construction site along the Los Angeles River, just south of where four freeways converge in Vernon, a crane hoisted a set of massive white…

Clean energy is here, but getting it to electric vehicles is not

Computers reconstruct 3D environments from 2D photos in a fraction of the time

Reimagining infrastructure through digital twin modeling

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine if you could peer into the future of a machine—track its wear and tear, predict when it might fail, and fine-tune its performance—all without touching…

OpenAI releases free, downloadable models in competition catch-up

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a Reddit forum early this year that the artificial intelligence star was on ‘the wrong side of history’ when it came to being open…