Researchers are combining drones and AI to make removing land mines faster and safer

Demining operations are increasingly using drone-based aerial imagery to accelerate land mine surveys, particularly for mines laid on the surface of the ground. However, camouflage, vegetation and ...
GitHub

Flash LiDAR Vehicle Detection with MATLAB Dataset and Deep Learning Benchmarks

This repository provides code and workflows to test several state-of-the-art vehicle detection deep learning algorithms —including YOLOX, SalsaNext, RandLA-Net, and VoxelRCNN— on a Flash Lidar dataset ...
CNN

With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...
SUAS News

Optimizing Railway Infrastructure for Mining Using High-Resolution Drone LiDAR Survey Data

Transporting raw materials from mines to ports efficiently is a critical challenge in the mining industry. In Northern Cape, South Africa, a manganese mine faced high costs and inefficiencies moving ...
Wired

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. It's easy to ...
Reuters

Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...
MIT Technology Review

Using unstructured data to fuel enterprise AI success

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...
The Motley Fool

AI Data Centers Just Sent This Other Metal to a New Record High

The price of silver set a new record this month. Silver's price has more than doubled this year. It continues to outperform other precious metals year to date. The price of silver broke a record this ...
GitHub

A Python toolkit for TikTok data extraction and analysis using TikAPI.

Extract post metadata, thumbnails and get video transcription and translation with TikTok's built-in subtitles. data/ └── davis_big_dawg/ ├── davis_big_dawg_posts.json # Post metadata ├── thumbnails/ ...
VentureBeat

AI coding transforms data engineering: How dltHub's open-source Python library helps developers create data pipelines for AI in minutes

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with FLUX-pro-1.1-ultra A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in minutes using ...
Pew Research Center

What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...