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Science is a slaughterhouse. We rarely acknowledge the degree to which animal life underwrites the research that provides us with medicines, or the regulation that keeps us safe. Live animals were used in 2.64m officially sanctioned scientific procedures in the UK in 2024, many of them distressing or painful and many of them fatal. But the government's new strategy to phase out animal testing published earlier this month suggests that in the near future emerging technologies

But biology doesn't generate new proteins at that level. Instead, changes have to take place at the nucleic acid level before eventually making their presence felt at the protein level. And the DNA level is fairly removed from proteins, with lots of critical non-coding sequences, redundancy, and a fair degree of flexibility. It's not necessarily obvious that learning the organization of a genome would help an AI system figure out how to make functional proteins.

Since I joined Google in 2018, it has been amazing to see the impact I've had. I started at Google Bangalore in India, where I was part of a team using machine learning and AI on Google Maps. After spending a few years there, I moved to the US in 2021 to work at the Google Mountain View location in California.

While much of the history of life on Earth is written, the opening chapters are murky at best. On our ever-changing world, the older a rock is, the more it has changed, obscuring or even erasing evidence of ancient life. Beyond a hazy boundary of circa two billion years, in fact, this interference is so total that no pristine, unaltered Earth rocks are known to exist, making any potential sign of biology as clear as mud. At least until now.

Not everyone appreciates the artistry of Jackson Pollock's famous drip paintings, with some dismissing them as something any child could create. While Pollock's work is undeniably more sophisticated than that, it turns out that when one looks at splatter paintings made by adults and young children through a fractal lens and compares them to those of Pollock himself, the children's work does bear a closer resemblance to Pollock's than those of the adults.

This photo was taken in August, in the Sing'isi village in Arusha, northern Tanzania, where my colleagues and I were conducting a field visit to farmers. I was demonstrating how to use a mobile app - named KilimoAI - to examine crop leaves. The app, which we've developed in-house, works by analysing a photograph of the plant to detect possible disease symptoms.

The first game from the development team is Prologue: Go Wayback, a single-player survival roguelike that tasks you with navigating worlds generated through machine-learning technology. It'll be available in early access starting November 20. Greene has stated in the past that he expects players to hate the game at first. The second planned game from the studio "aims to test limited multiplayer, maybe up to 100 versus 100 players," Greene told Eurogamer.

"The developer said it has "evolved" its machine-learning-based anti-cheat measures with the aim of helping the system become "smarter, faster, and fairer." "Our aimbot-detection models are trained to decide whether a player's targeting was performed by a human or an aimbot. In Black Ops 7, these updated models will discriminate between natural aim and cheating with even greater precision by taking what they have learned from real gameplay to catch more cheaters than before," the developer explained."

Apps have been the catalyst to transform how we consume information on mobile by providing brands with controlled content environments. GA4 combines data from the two sources into a single suite. Although this was possible before, GA4 has introduced a new framework to make this far more practical and intuitive. This enables us to glean richer insights with customers behaving very differently across apps and websites.

I've been a little over 30 years in the software development area, in a variety of fields, done consulting, done software development, worked on products, worked with customers. Tried to do a variety of things over the years. The last a little over 12 years have been spent specifically on AI and machine learning, in a variety of contexts. I started at Nokia, working in that with maps and data analysis of users on their mobile devices.

Designed for technicians but also potentially useful for consumers, the new Speedtest Pulse is a dual-mode network diagnostic tool aiming to offer "one tap" troubleshooting at a competitive price point. Its objective is precise: to determine where the network connection bottleneck lies and whether the issue resides with the ISP, the local Wi-Fi, or a specific device. After identifying the problem, the device suggests a fix in natural language.

I would not call myself godmother of anything,

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are the most useful technologies, which are reshaping online learning today. From course suggestions based on the learner's previous coursework to tutoring systems that use AI capabilities, these technologies can build a smarter, data-driven learning experience that adapts to the pace and learning approach of every student. AI in eLearning isn't just about automating actions; it's about providing personalized learning paths that foster engagement, improve the retention of content.

"Overall, the data shows that, generally, smaller law firms have more patent proofreading errors in their work than large law firms." In an ideal world, every patent law firm, from a small practice drafting 50 patents a year to a large firm drafting thousands a year, would deliver patents for their clients that contain no errors. In reality though, patent drafting is complex and tedious work, and errors inevitably occur.

Kohler just launched the Dekoda, a $599 device that clips onto your toilet bowl rim, and before you dismiss it entirely, hear me out. This isn't just a gimmick, it's a health tracker that monitors gut health, hydration levels, and can detect the presence of blood in your toilet. Think of it as a wellness wearable, except you never have to remember to put it on and it's there as you go about your toilet business.

Email subject lines determine whether your carefully crafted campaigns ever see the light of day - yet most marketers still rely on gut instinct and basic A/B testing to choose them. What if you could predict which subject lines will resonate with your audience before hitting send? AI email subject line optimization makes this possible by analyzing millions of data points from your actual subscribers' behavior, automatically testing variations, and continuously learning what drives engagement.

On January 1, 2008, at 1:59 AM in Calipatria, California, an earthquake happened. You haven't heard of this earthquake; even if you had been living in Calipatria, you wouldn't have felt anything. It was magnitude -0.53, about the same amount of shaking as a truck passing by. Still, this earthquake is notable, not because it was large but because it was small-and yet we know about it.

If artificial intelligence takes over, some argue, there's little point in studying physics or any science. AI could be doing half your job before you even get your degree. But that argument ignores why people study science in the first place. It's to figure out new things, to ask questions uncurious bots would never dream of. Humans love that whole problem-solving process. It's why they like to get the sides of Rubik's cube to match.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has been using some artificial intelligence capabilities to bolster its suicide prevention efforts, but VA says these tools augment the work of clinicians and are not designed to replace any human-led interventions. Lawmakers, researchers and advocates say that's how these technologies should always be used. This article - the second in a series of pieces about VA's adoption of AI tools to help prevent

Meta has implemented a new machine learning framework for Instagram that applies diversity algorithms to reduce repetitive content while maintaining user engagement. The diversity-aware ranking system addresses overexposure to similar content creators and product types by introducing multiplicative penalties to existing engagement models. The framework tackles two primary problems: excessive messages from the same content creator and overemphasis on single-product surfaces like Stories while neglecting Feed or Reels content.

Researchers have identified a key protein that helps tick-borne encephalitis virus enter the brain. In rare cases an infection can lead to serious neurological symptoms, but little was known about how the virus interacts with human cells. Now, a team show that a protein found on the outside of cells plays an important role in infection. In mouse experiments, they show that blocking the ability of the virus to bind to this protein protected the mice from disease.

Carnegie Mellon University is tapping its strengths in computer and data science to reframe one of its humanities doctoral programs in hopes of preparing graduates to navigate an increasingly tough job market. Starting next fall, the English department at the Pittsburgh-based institution will offer a Ph.D. in computational cultural studies, which it says is the first program of its kind in the country.

Named WorkHorse, the solution is described as a tool that easily integrates with an organization's SIEM system and within minutes it begins transforming raw alerts into fully contextualized information that is ready for Tier 2 analysts. The goal is to cut alert fatigue to zero and reduce case triage time from hours to seconds.

The Startup Battlefield 200 global pitch competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29 at San Francisco's Moscone West, is just weeks away, and the stakes have never been higher. Twenty founders will pitch their companies on the Disrupt Stage, but only one will walk away with the $100,000 equity-free prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup.

Although the Department of Veterans Affairs has adopted some artificial intelligence capabilities to better identify veterans at risk of self-harm, VA officials said these technologies represent only one part of their suicide prevention strategy and are not designed to replace human interventions. VA's 2024 AI use case inventory included 227 examples of the emerging capabilities being used or implemented across its operations, with these applications ranging from AI-enabled devices to an on-network generative chatbot for department personnel.

To access the meteorological archives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - which contain records from when the DRC became independent in 1960 collected from 37 weather stations across the country - Muheki had to fly from Kinshasa to Kisangani in the country's north, travel along the Congo River by boat and then take an unpaved road on a motorcycle to reach the Yangambi branch of the DRC's National Institute for Agronomic Research (INERA).

The Slack pings, welcome emails, and virtual coffee chats were a blur, but the moment that kept me awake came later that night: Did we actually capture every signature we need? That nagging question set me on a year‑long quest to remove guesswork- and 3 a.m. logins- from our onboarding compliance checklist. What follows is the distilled playbook I now trust to prove every legal box is ticked before a new starter even spots the Wi‑Fi password on their laptop sleeve.