The Race to Build Megafire Prediction Tools
by Adam Popescu, Bloomberg BusinessWeek California’s rising temperatures and worsening droughts are accelerating the need for advanced modeling technology. New technology is …
Dude, Where’s My Earthquake Warning System?
by Craig Miller, KQED Sience For years Californians have been hoping for some kind of warning system that would provide even a …
New Exascale System for Earth Simulation Introduced
from HPCwire The Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science in the …
Exposed: The Path of Ransomware Payments
by NYU Tandon School of engineering, ECN Magazine The murky ecosystem of ransomware payments comes into focus in new research led by …
The Great AI Paradox
by Brian Bergstein, MIT Technology Review Don’t worry about supersmart AI eliminating all the jobs. That’s just a distraction from the problems …
Stanford-Led Artificial Intelligence Index Tracks Emerging Field
by Andrew Myers, Stanford News Since the term “artificial intelligence” (AI) was first used in print in 1956, the one-time science …
What Life Will Be Like When the Computers Disappear
by Edward C. Baig, USA Today What happens when the computers around you all but disappear? Tiny sensors built into walls, household products, what …
CAPTCHA Is Dying. This Is How It’s Being Reinvented for the AI Age
by Matt Burgess, Wired.co.uk The goal of the Turing test is for a human to work out whether they’re communicating with another …
Ada Lovelace Day Honors ‘the First Computer Programmer’
by Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American Pioneering 19th-century English mathematician Ada Lovelace is honored on the second Tuesday of every October for her …
Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
by Nicola Jones, Nature As Earth-observing satellites become more plentiful and climate models more powerful, researchers who study global warming are facing a deluge …