The Floods, the Farms, and the River That Roared Back
Those words aptly describe the scene I encountered in January, some 70 years after the novel’s publication. Drought seemed a distant memory; the green…
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New Zealand Faces a Future of Flood and Fire
New Zealand is grappling with two consecutive extreme weather events—massive flooding followed by a cyclone—that have claimed at least 12 lives and left…
Meta’s plan to popularize Horizon Worlds is to flood it with teenagers
Meta has been struggling to keep Horizon Worlds a thing and its latest plan to do so is to flood the app with teenagers.
As reported by The Wall…
AI voice tool ‘misused’ as deepfakes flood web forum
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A British AI firm said…
New York’s flood sensor network will soon expand across the city
New York City’s first flood-monitoring network is set to expand. Thanks to $7.2 million in funding from the city, the number of flood-prone areas FloodNet…
The Key to California’s Survival Is Hidden Underground
Water is the nemesis of urban planners. Because the built environment is so impervious to liquid, thanks to all that asphalt, concrete, and brick, it…
Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest
Leaf waxes also predate climate records from Antarctic ice cores, which go back only about a million years and require a climate that can support ice. One…
Google Expands Flood and Wildfire Tracking to More Countries
A gaggle of new AI projects are coming soon from Google, including disaster monitoring tools and a service that uses machine intelligence to generate custom…
Flood, wildfire alerts, healthcare and more: How Google is using AI for people’s benefits…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is something that Googlehas been betting big for a while now. From better translations to enhancements in software, AI is at…