2+ hour, 52+ min ago   (55+ words) A conversational agent that listens not only to what users say but to how they say it has shown in a controlled experiment that it can make guided work in mixed reality feel noticeably more usable and supportive, even though…...

3+ hour, 19+ min ago   (56+ words) Water utilities live and die by the forecast. When a crew opens a valve or takes a pipe offline for inspection, the entire calculation rests on an assumption about how much water customers will draw that day. Get that number…...

3+ hour, 37+ min ago   (781+ words) Generative artificial intelligence has become so convincing that the line between what people create and what machines produce is increasingly difficult to see. A new study published in AI & Society by researchers at Temple University, led by Tanaka Manhede and…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (632+ words) Fuel cells promise a clean energy future, but a tiny molecule has long stood in their way....

5+ hour, 7+ min ago   (704+ words) Software has an odor problem, at least metaphorically. So-called code smells—structural weaknesses such as oversized classes, duplicated logic, and tangled methods—are early warning signs that a codebase is rotting from within, and they cost the software industry billions…...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago   (708+ words) Electric vehicles are quietly rewriting the rules of the power grid, and nowhere is that transformation more visible than along the highways that stitch countries together....

5+ hour, 47+ min ago   (91+ words) Global agriculture is locked in a widening battle against pests, pathogens, and invasive species, and a sweeping new review argues that artificial intelligence has moved from a promising experiment to the central organizing technology of modern plant health management. Writing…...

5+ hour, 48+ min ago   (70+ words) A bold new framework is challenging one of philosophy’s oldest questions: what does it take for a system, biological or artificial, to genuinely mean something? In a paper published in Discover Artificial Intelligence, researcher Jaehong Yu introduces the concept of…...

5+ hour, 48+ min ago   (679+ words) A team of researchers in Peru has built a system that can fly a drone over a Hass avocado orchard and, in real time, tell a farmer not only where every visible fruit is hanging but also how ripe each…...

5+ hour, 48+ min ago   (627+ words) Teaching a team of artificial intelligence agents to cooperate has long been one of the most stubborn problems in machine learning. Each agent sees only a fragment of the world, the environment shifts beneath them as they learn, and the…...