Amazon Web Services data center is visible on Aug. 22, 2024, in Boardman, Ore. Credit: AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular…
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When Music Falls Flat: Why Some Brains Don’t Enjoy Music
Summary: Some people feel absolutely nothing when listening to music—and not because of bad taste. A rare condition called specific musical anhedonia involves a disconnect between the brain’s auditory and…
Music May Help Kids Understand Emotions, Even Without Empathy
Summary: Music plays a powerful role in how we perceive and express emotion—and a new study finds that even very young children can match emotions in music to facial expressions.…
Pioneer spirit drives Swiss solar-powered plane altitude attempt
Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan waved to friends and family prior to take-off. Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan on Friday made his first attempt of the year at setting a new aviation…
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…
