just now   (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…...

17+ 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....

40+ 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…...

42+ 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…...

42+ 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…...

42+ 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…...

1+ hour, 7+ min ago   (775+ words) Every time a person checks in at a café, a park, or an airport using a location-based social network, they leave behind two intertwined traces: a social tie to other users and a geographic footprint of where they have been....

1+ hour, 7+ min ago   (464+ words) Every living cell depends on thousands of distinct protein families, each folding into precise three-dimensional shapes to carry out the molecular tasks that sustain life....

1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (55+ words) Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies on the planet, striking roughly 17 million people each year, yet doctors still miss the mark often enough to matter. In about 13 percent of appendectomies, the removed appendix turns out to…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (68+ words) Depth perception is one of the most fundamental challenges in computer vision, and for robots, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality systems, it is the difference between smooth navigation and costly failure. Deep learning has produced stereo matching networks that achieve…...