How a teenager helped identify a new species of giant marine reptile: Artist's impression of a washed-up Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass on the beach. Sergey Krasovskiy, CC BY-SA It may be difficult to imagine, but the county of Somerset in south-west England was once home to what may have been the largest marine reptiles that ever lived, my …
Gaza war: Israel using AI to identify human targets raising fears that innocents are being caught in the net: Death by algorithm: increasingly AI is being used to identify targets, as in Gaza. TSViPhoto/Shutterstock A report by Jerusalem-based investigative journalists published in +972 magazine finds that AI targeting systems have played a key role in …
How AI ‘sees’ the world – what happened when we trained a deep learning model to identify poverty: Visualising wealth and poverty through AI. Authors, CC BY-SA To most effectively deliver aid to alleviate poverty, you have to know where the people most in need are. In many countries, this is often done with household …
Linking police and healthcare data could help better identify domestic abuse – new research: Healthcare professionals can play a vital role in identifying and helping people who are experiencing domestic abuse. HTWE/Shutterstock Identifying domestic abuse victims earlier could help to reduce future emergency medical admissions. Our new research shows how this could be done before …
Women are more likely to identify as bisexual – can research into sexual arousal tell us why?: Women are more likely to take fluid approach with their sexuality. NDAB Creativity/Shutterstock Women’s sexuality is vastly understudied in science and is still considered a “taboo” subject. Often, the experiences of men have been taken as the norm …
Seti: alien hunters get a boost as AI helps identify promising signals from space: The new study analysed data gathered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. Shutterstock An international team of researchers looking for signs of intelligent life in space have used artificial intelligence (AI) to reveal eight promising radio signals in data …
Alzheimer’s: blood biomarker may help identify the disease ten years before symptoms start: Though this genetic form of Alzheimer's only affects around 1% of the population, it provides useful information on how the disease progresses. Atthapon Raksthaput/ Shutterstock Though Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 55 million people worldwide, there’s still no cure for the condition …
Renewable energy could get Togo to its goals: experts identify what’s in the way: Roadside workshop with fireplace near Atakpamé, Togo. Africanway/Getty Images Togo is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a per capita gross domestic product of US$ 644. Most of the population depend on subsistence agriculture. Over 56% live in …
Afghanistan: with civil war on the cards, the west needs to identify a moderate ally to support: Resistance leader: the NRF's Ahmad Massoud. NRF/Twitter It has become axiomatic that in Afghanistan, once an armed resistance group gains a foothold in an area it becomes hard to route out. This is more so if it musters …
Grooming: an expert explains what it is and how to identify it: Nadya Eugene / Shutterstock The word “grooming” has become synonymous with sexual abuse of children. High-profile cases such as the allegations by cyclist Bradley Wiggins have raised public awareness of how grooming can go unnoticed. To stop grooming before it takes place, we …
Putin’s Russia: people increasingly identify with the Soviet Union – here’s what that means: The view that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, wants to restore territories of the Soviet Union has been a big part of the commentary on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But how much is he in tune with the wishes of the …
Identify flowers and trees with this open source mobile app: Where I live, there are lots of trails and roads lined with flowers and trees. My community is famous for its annual maple festival, and maple trees are easy for me to identify. However, there are many other trees I cannot identify by name. Flowers …
Identify security properties on Linux using checksec: Compiling source code produces a binary. During compilation, you can provide flags to the compiler to enable or disable certain properties on the binary. Some of these properties are relevant to security. Checksec is a nifty little tool (and shell script) that, among other functions, identifies the security …
Scots less likely to identify as ‘European’ than others in the UK, survey reveals: Scottish election results have put pressure on the UK government at Westminster to authorise a second referendum after pro-independence parties won an overall majority in the Edinburgh parliament. It seems likely Boris Johnson will refuse this for now and so it …
AI is increasingly being used to identify emotions – here’s what’s at stake: AI can be biased. aslysun/Shutterstock Imagine you are in a job interview. As you answer the recruiter’s questions, an artificial intelligence (AI) system scans your face, scoring you for nervousness, empathy and dependability. It may sound like science fiction, but these systems …
South Africa in the news: Online Makeup Course Market Identify Hidden Trends and Growth Opportunities: Global Online Makeup Course Market is latest research study released by HTF MI evaluating the market, highlighting opportunities, risk side analysis, and leveraged with strategic and tactical decision …: “South Africa” – BingNews How the Queen and Prince Philip’s enduring …
Identify Linux performance bottlenecks using open source tools: Computers are integrated systems that only perform as fast as their slowest hardware component. If one component is less capable than the others—if it falls behind and can’t keep up—it can hold your entire system back. That’s a performance bottleneck. Removing a serious bottleneck can make your …
Seafood: most Europeans struggle to identify the fish they eat – new study: PickOne/Shutterstock How well do you know the fish you buy? Could you identify the species before it’s a fillet that you pick up in the supermarket aisle? If so, according to our new research, you’re actually more knowledgeable than most European consumers. …