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Deep sea submersibles snap first photos of ship where Ernest Shackleton died

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One of the remotely operated vehicles also discovered the Titanic 40 years ago. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Fishing net pollution obscures portions of the ship from view. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


Super rare orange lobster molts at New York Aquarium

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More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A fresh-shelled Luigi (left) next to his older and molted shell (right). Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . For Luigi the lobster, it was simply time to grow.


Young humpback whale freed from a death trap in Alaska

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The whale was entangled in crab pot lines at Endicott Arm near Juneau. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The NOAA Fisheries response team uses poles with specialized knives to cut entangling lines. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


What to Know About Screwworm in the U.S.

TIME - Tech

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Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn't

MIT Technology Review

Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn't Data accuracy, structure, and governance are foundational components required for agricultural AI. Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investing in AI without first laying the groundwork. The use cases are promising, especially for an industry navigating volatile fertilizer costs, unpredictable weather, and margins that leave little room for error. Research shows AI-enabled predictive models can improve crop yield by 26%, reduce water use by 41%, and cut chemical usage by 33%. However, what AI vendors usually won't tell you is that these solutions are only effective if you have a clean, solid data foundation. However, at Reltio, we have experience in this area, including leading technology strategy at a major agricultural distributor and building a data platform used by enterprises worldwide-we've seen it first hand.



GTPBD: AFine-Grained Global Terraced Parcel and Boundary Dataset

Neural Information Processing Systems

Agricultural parcels serve as basic units for conducting agricultural practices and applications, which is vital for land ownership registration, food security assessment, soil erosion monitoring, etc. However, existing agriculture parcel extraction studies only focus on mid-resolution mapping or regular plain farmlands while lacking representation of complex terraced terrains due to the demands of precision agriculture. In this paper, we introduce a more fine-grained terraced parcel dataset named GTPBD (Global Terraced Parcel and Boundary Dataset), which is the first fine-grained dataset covering major worldwide terraced regions with more than 200,000 complex terraced parcels with manually annotation. GTPBD comprises 47,537 high-resolution images with three-level labels, including pixel-level boundary labels, mask labels, and parcel labels. It covers seven major geographic zones in China and transcontinental climatic regions around the world. Compared to the existing datasets, the GTPBD dataset brings considerable challenges due to the: (1) terrain diversity; (2) complex and irregular parcel objects; and (3) multiple domain styles. Our proposed GTPBD dataset is suitable for four different tasks, including semantic segmentation, edge detection, terraced parcel extraction and unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) tasks.


RESPIN-S1.0: A read speech corpus of 10000+ hours in dialects of nine Indian Languages

Neural Information Processing Systems

Indian languages exhibit high dialectal variation and are spoken by populations that remain digitally underserved. Existing speech corpora typically represent only standard dialects and lack domain and linguistic diversity.


Active Measurement: Efficient Estimation at Scale

Neural Information Processing Systems

AI has the potential to transform scientific discovery by analyzing vast datasets with little human effort. However, current workflows often do not provide the accuracy or statistical guarantees that are needed. We introduce active measurement, a human-in-the-loop AI framework for scientific measurement. An AI model is used to predict measurements for individual units, which are then sampled for human labeling using importance sampling. With each new set of human labels, the AI model is improved and an unbiased Monte Carlo estimate of the total measurement is refined. Active measurement can provide precise estimates even with an imperfect AI model, and requires little human effort when the AI model is very accurate. We derive novel estimators, weighting schemes, and confidence intervals, and show that active measurement reduces estimation error compared to alternatives in several measurement tasks.


Grape seeds from Texas are going to space

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Your next bottle of red could come from seeds that orbited Planet Earth. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Researchers are interested in potential genetic mutations from exposure to cosmic radiation, but ultimately plan to make wine from those plants. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .