Prescribed burns encourage foul-smelling invaders
Though prescribed burns reduce wildfire threats and even improve habitat for some animals, new research shows these fires also spread stinknet, an aptly named weed currently invading superblooms across the Southwestern U.S......»»
The Mystery of Fish Deaths in a Foul Chartreuse Sea
Researchers in Kotzebue, Alaska, are investigating why their town is increasingly playing host to harmful cyanobacteria......»»
Best apps for young kids to foster fun and creative learning
Just like adults, it can be easy for kiddos to get sucked into passively watching videos on iPad or TV. But what about more engaging digital experiences that encourage creative and fun learning? Follow along for a look at some of the best apps for y.....»»
Apple notifies Swift Student Challenge winners ahead of WWDC
WWDC 2023 Swift Student Challenge winners have been notified, and will receive a gift set along with entry into a lottery for an in-person event ticket.Swift Student ChallengeApple holds the Swift Student Challenge each year to encourage student deve.....»»
Fact or fiction? New sci-fi series "Extrapolations" explores a climate-changed future
A new show streaming on Apple TV+ creatively envisions how artificial intelligence, other advanced technologies and climate change might impact people's lives this century. In Extrapolations, Scott Burns—who produced Al Gore's 2006 documentary An I.....»»
Shanghai on track to incentivize investments in semicondutor, AI sectors
The Shanghai Municipal Government has just announced a set of policy measures to strengthen the development of modernized industrial systems, offering subsidies to encourage more companies to invest in the semiconductor, AI, smart manufacturing, and.....»»
Pandemic boost for Cornish language learning should be maintained, says report
The momentum brought to Cornish learning during the pandemic needs to be used as a springboard to encourage more people to take up the language, an expert has said......»»
Book: Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide
Chris Heivly released Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide. I encourage you to get Chris’s book if you are a startup community builder or are interested in startup communities. When Ian Hathaway and I started working on.....»»
Don’t let manual processes hold you back, automate your AppSec
At RSA Conference 2023, the key theme for Mend is automation. Their focus is on helping people put their application security programs on autopilot. They encourage and enable the automation of as much of AppSec as possible because the manual ways of.....»»
Cut council tax for green gardeners to help cities tackle climate change, say UK researchers
According to new research from the University of Sheffield, policymakers should offer incentives, such as council tax or water bill discounts, to encourage gardeners to use environmentally sensitive techniques to help combat climate change in cities.....»»
India"s wafer fab project applicants reportedly struggling to find technology partners
India has offered nearly US$100 billion to encourage locally-made chips. However, most applicants for the incentive scheme are having difficultines in getting licensed production-grade technology......»»
India to encourage RISC-V for local semicondcutor ecosystem
As IC design houses worldwide increasingly eye RISC-V as a viable alternative to ARM and x86, India hopes to capitalize on the opportunity as the country builds a self-reliant semiconductor ecosystem......»»
Danish Zoo hopes to ignite panda romance
Concerned that its two pandas are slow to breed, Copenhagen Zoo has begun a new strategy to encourage mating—giving the prospective couple more time to get to know each other......»»
Stinky seaweed blooms: Turning an ecological risk into an opportunity
As Atlantic beaches brace for their annual onslaught of a potent-smelling seaweed, scientists on a project led by the University of Southampton are sharing their research into how communities affected can make use of this putrid problem—by turning.....»»
With Amazon Alexa’s future in peril, Fire TVs offer a glimmer of hope
Fire TV devices encourage the kind of Alexa interactions that actually make money. Enlarge / Fire TVs give Alexa hope, but the future still feels grim. (credit: Amazon) Alexa, how can you continue to be relevant and stop.....»»
Your grocery bag might not have been recycled
Laws encourage recycling plastics, but verifying recycled content relies on tricky math. Enlarge / Recycling is sorted at the Sims Municipal Recycling Facility in New York City in 2015. (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images).....»»
The fast and the fibrous: Developing the muscles you need for speed
Different types of exercise encourage the formation of different types of muscle fibers, or the cells that make up your muscles. Slow twitch muscle fibers support endurance activities like long-distance running, while fast twitch fibers are needed fo.....»»
Introducing the Rocky Mountain Artificial Intelligence Interest Group (RMAIIG)
If AI’s current excitement and hype interests you, I encourage you to join the Rocky Mountain Artificial Intelligence Interest Group (RMAIIG). The monthly Meetup will follow the fascinating and rapidly evolving world of generative AI tools. The.....»»
Study finds why prescribed-burn forests in Western Australia became so fire-prone
New Curtin research has shown how fuel reduction burning aimed at decreasing the likelihood of bushfires in Western Australia's South West forests have apparently increased fire risk......»»
When LLMs Collide With Software Development and Economics
Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin of SK Ventures wrote an interesting and important essay titled Society’s Technical Debt and Software’s Gutenberg Moment. The abstract follows. I encourage you to read the full essay. There is immense hyperbol.....»»
Boosting survival of a beneficial bacterium in the human gut
The microbes that inhabit the gut are critical for human health, and understanding the factors that encourage the growth of beneficial bacterial species—known as "good" bacteria—in the gut may enable medical interventions that promote gut and ove.....»»