A blown-up Russian tank near Kyiv, a monument for Ukrainian writer Borys Hrinchenko, an apartment building destroyed by artillery and a slide in a children’s playground covered in graffiti. In Ukraine, these objects are among hundreds of landmarks, cultural sites, monuments and everyday things that civilians have scanned on mobile […]
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By SAM METZ, Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Shortly after launching his campaign last year for the Republican nomination in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race, Sam Brown got into a scrape with Twitter. A Purple Heart recipient who was severely burned by an IED blast in Afghanistan, Brown posted a […]
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) student Sarah Cen remembers the lecture that sent her down the track to an upstream question. At a talk on ethical artificial intelligence, the speaker brought up a variation on the famous trolley problem, which outlines a philosophical choice between two undesirable outcomes. […]
An Italian company announced yesterday that it will commercially deploy a long-duration energy storage system using liquefied carbon dioxide. Energy Dome SpA completed a 2-megawatt/ 4-megawatt-hour pilot project that tested the technology on the Italian island of Sardinia. In yesterday’s announcement, it framed that success as a breakthrough in energy […]
As babies, we babble and imitate our way to learning languages. We don’t start off reading raw text, which requires fundamental knowledge and understanding about the world, as well as the advanced ability to interpret and infer descriptions and relationships. Rather, humans begin our language journey slowly, by pointing and […]
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s biggest soccer club, Benfica, will become the country’s first to join the crypto craze, partnering with blockchain-powered fan engagement firm Socios.com to launch a fan token, the club announced on Tuesday. “We have been paying very close attention to Digital Assets,” SL Benfica CEO Domingos Soares […]