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A war was being fought at Bellingar Estates, a 9.5-acre vineyard in Oregon's wine country. The adversaries? Birds vs. Grapes. Vineyard owner Evan Bellinger wanted to combat bird damage and found a cutting-edge laser bird deterrent, AVIX…

The Ewoyaa lithium project in Ghana is an essential part of the U.S. lithium supply chain. Piedmont Lithium, in Tennessee, is breaking ground on a lithium refinery, with construction set to start in 2024 and the first output expected in…

Grok, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, is under test. A competitor to ChatGPT will be available to premium subscribers on the X platform once testing is complete. Musk says that…

Pickering Interfaces, a leader in modular signal switching and simulation for electronic testing and verification, is set to unveil two groundbreaking products at productronica - a 21-slot fully hybrid PXIe chassis and a pioneering…

AI favors junior workers with more extraordinary task-based Experience. Senior workers, however, have lower trust in AI, likely based on their broader job responsibilities. A recent study, ‘Friend or Foe? Teaming Between Artificial…

AI is rapidly evolving. Visual and large language models can create images, essays, computer code, and more and even correct their mistakes. So, how do they “think?” According to U.C. Santa Barbara’s Fabian Offert, people have been…

Has your phone been hacked? How would you even know? Here are the top signs a bad actor has got their hands on your phone—some of which are now very uncomfortable to me. Your phone overheating, even when idle, could mean it’s being…

UBC and Honda researchers developed a smart, stretchable highly sensitive soft sensor skin with potential robotics and prosthetics applications. Atop a prosthetic arm or a robotic limb, the sensor skin provides touch sensitivity and…

There’s now evidence that pigeons and AI tackle challenging tasks similarly. Research has already shown that pigeons can solve complex categorization tasks differently than a human’s selective attention and explicit rule-use approach.…

It's no wonder, with all of the sanctions on technology export to a handful of countries, that there will be several examples of criminal activities. Here's one of them. A couple from Montreal and a man from Brooklyn, New York, were…