The main goal of Bird Buddy is to detect and identify bird species using artificial intelligence. It does this better than Birdfy, but still has its drawbacks. I get what appears to be hundreds of pigeons in my feeders a day – in fact it’s probably 10 to 20 of the same one – and...
I gave to convince people to take up jogging outside in winter. Gyms are ok! And if you don’t feel like putting on multiple layers of clothing and headlights to run out into the grim, frosty darkness, a few well-intentioned words probably won’t help. But a run during these long, dreary months is a chance...
In total, the performance required the participation of about 800 people, from cameramen to directors, Rihanna, her 80 dancers and seven members of the group. It also required a lot of construction. To minimize the stress on the pitch, the stage Rihanna performed on had to consist of no more than 15 rolling structures (called...
When Nike debuted their Vaporfly 4% marathon shoes over half a century ago the world the course has changed. Records have fallen, laws have been changed, and rivals have struggled to create their own “super shoes.” Fast forward six years and every running brand has its own racing shoe that pairs a carbon fiber plate...
Schmidt became CEO of Google in 2001, when the search engine had a few hundred employees and was barely making a profit. He left Alphabet in 2017, having built a sprawling high-margin company with a broad portfolio of projects including cutting-edge artificial intelligence, self-driving cars and quantum computers. Schmidt now sees another opportunity for technological...
Akash Banerjee is not sure if he’s allowed to talk about the BBC documentary India: Modi’s question on his YouTube channel. The documentary explores Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in the bloody riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat in 2002, and the government is working hard to keep Indians from watching it....
six months later First, I wrote on Instagram that I left my husband and kids and went to drive 348 miles alone to meet a bunch of strangers in Las Vegas. This was in January 2013. Over the past 10 years, many of this group of “strangers” have become my closest friends, fellow travelers, fellow...
Photo: Dog bath Installation is easy, but with guides, installing four different pads can be time consuming and their placement can feel unreliable. It took me a while to get the clips on properly. Pad slippage from time to time is not the end of the world, but when it does, it defeats the purpose...
Many years ago Christopher Kiba was skeptical about the astronomical data collected by civilian scientists – after all, they rely on people assessing the night sky with the naked eye. But when a student wrote to him with a question about measuring the brightness of the sky, he thought about Globe at night a citizen...
There are a lot of details about two distant objects, especially considering that astrophysicists only directly observed their extremely turbulent end. The team reconstructed the city from a pile of rubbish. To infer so much from so little, they combined observations of neutron stars with findings from studies of other stars and galaxies, creating a...
