AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by ...
New Scientist

We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...
Complex

Wale Says He Hates Posting Constantly But Has to Fight Algorithms to Promote His Album

Wale says the modern music landscape is forcing artists like him into a nonstop battle with social media and streaming algorithms just to be heard. During his appearance on Million Dollaz Worth of ...
The Economist

If only the market value of an intact forest were more obvious, writes Jack Hurd

STANDING UNDER the canopy of a tropical forest is one of the loudest places you can be in the natural world. The call of the white bellbird can reach 125 decibels, while the howler monkeys come in at ...
CNN

‘Bugonia’ took Emma Stone – and her algorithm – to some pretty weird places

Emma Stone’s algorithm is playing up again. The two-time Academy Award winner reported in May that she was being fed a load of “crazy sh*t” online since researching her part as a woman swept up by a ...
Business Insider

TikTok insiders and creators worry its powerful algorithm could lose its magic after a sale

TikTok's owner, ByteDance, is expected to sell its US business to a buyer consortium. The new owners will retrain TikTok's content-recommendation algorithm, the White House said. TikTok staffers and ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

Study finds that your baby's sex isn't completely random

Two people were killed in a crash just outside of Dry Ridge Wednesday. Clermont County man gets hefty prison sentence for exploiting child A Clermont County man was sentenced to nearly 22 years in ...
CNN

TikTok’s algorithm will be overseen by Oracle in the US after the sale is completed

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...
Harvard Medical School

AI and Algorithms in Contemporary Fine Art

The Data | Art Symposium co-organized by Kim Albrecht and Jeffrey Schnapp brought together artists and technologists to explore the interplay of algorithms and the aesthetic. Event coverage from ...
Harvard Medical School

The algorithm thinks you’re rich. Prepare to pay more for that flight.

In an interview with Harvard Law Today, Noah Giansiracusa explains how companies deploy what some call "dynamic" or “surveillance pricing,” using individual customers' data as a primary algorithmic ...