We've all been to job-search hell, where it feels like Satan is forcing you to hit apply, upload your resume, and then fill out those online forms one by one anyway. Then, it feels like he's poking you in the butt with his pitchfork when it's time to interview. But we found a way to make getting hired feel far less hellish. You might even call it heaven, but we call it Canyon Pro. It's an AI interview coach, resume builder, application form filler, and tracker.

Alfredo Aliaga Burdio, 92, set a Guinness World Record when he made a 24-mile hike across the Grand Canyon last October. A 92-year-old man is making headlines and setting records after he successfully took on a nearly 24-mile hike across the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Alfredo Aliaga Burdio, who currently resides in Berlin, completed his record-setting trek across the Grand Canyon on Oct. 15, 2023. That journey led to Burdio claiming the title of oldest person to cross the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim on foot (male), according to an announcement on New Year's Day by the Guinness World Records. Burdio's journey, which lasted for a total of 34 hours and 2 minutes, included 21 hours and 15 minutes of actual hiking time.

Visibility underwater is challenging, and degrades as the distance between the subject and camera increases, making vision tasks in the forward-looking direction more difficult. We have collected underwater forward-looking stereo-vision and visual-inertial image sets in the Mediterranean and Red Sea. To our knowledge there are no other public datasets in the underwater environment acquired with this camera-sensor orientation published with ground-truth. These datasets are critical for the development of several underwater applications, including obstacle avoidance, visual odometry, 3D tracking, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and depth estimation. The stereo datasets include synchronized stereo images in dynamic underwater environments with objects of known-size. The visual-inertial datasets contain monocular images and IMU measurements, aligned with millisecond resolution timestamps and objects of known size which were placed in the scene. Both sensor configurations allow for scale estimation, with the calibrated baseline in the stereo setup and the IMU in the visual-inertial setup. Ground truth depth maps were created offline for both dataset types using photogrammetry. The ground truth is validated with multiple known measurements placed throughout the imaged environment. There are 5 stereo and 8 visual-inertial datasets in total, each containing thousands of images, with a range of different underwater visibility and ambient light conditions, natural and man-made structures and dynamic camera motions. The forward-looking orientation of the camera makes these datasets unique and ideal for testing underwater obstacle-avoidance algorithms and for navigation close to the seafloor in dynamic environments. With our datasets, we hope to encourage the advancement of autonomous functionality for underwater vehicles in dynamic and/or shallow water environments.

Depth estimation is critical for any robotic system. In the past years estimation of depth from monocular images have shown great improvement, however, in the underwater environment results are still lagging behind due to appearance changes caused by the medium. So far little effort has been invested on overcoming this. Moreover, underwater, there are more limitations for using high resolution depth sensors, this makes generating ground truth for learning methods another enormous obstacle. So far unsupervised methods that tried to solve this have achieved very limited success as they relied on domain transfer from dataset in air. We suggest training using subsequent frames self-supervised by a reprojection loss, as was demonstrated successfully above water. We suggest several additions to the self-supervised framework to cope with the underwater environment and achieve state-of-the-art results on a challenging forward-looking underwater dataset.

The massive Valles Marineris canyon has been revealed in stunning new images taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express. At 2,485 miles long, over 124 miles wide and more than 4 miles deep, the Red Planet's canyon makes America's seem downright puny by comparison - Valles Marineris would span the distance from the northern tip of Norway to the southern tip of Sicily. The new image depicts two trenches, or chasma, that form a portion of the western part of Valles Marineris. The picture uses data from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard Mars Express and it is a'true color' image, meaning it shows what would be seen by the human eye if looking at this region of Mars. The Red Planet's massive canyon has been revealed in new images released by the European Space Agency.

Kevin Larson crouched behind a boulder and watched the forest through his breath, waiting for the police he knew would come. It was Jan. 19, 2020. He was clinging to an assault rifle with 30 rounds and a conviction that, after all he had been through, there was no way he was going to prison. Larson was a drone pilot -- one of the best. He flew the heavily armed MQ-9 Reaper, and in 650 combat missions between 2013 and 2018, he had launched at least 188 airstrikes, earned 20 medals for achievement and killed a top man on the U.S.' most-wanted terrorist list. The 32-year-old pilot kept a handwritten thank-you note on his refrigerator from the director of the CIA.

For most, the term Artificial Intelligence evokes thoughts of futuristic technologies, of C-3PO and Asimov's "I, Robot." We think of walking, sentient robots that look like us – or at least we imagine they appear to like us. What we don't generally think of is a glorified speakerbox, or a supercomputer tasked to create recipes. But that's where AI starts – with small steps and incremental advances in technology. These small steps gradually lead to giant leaps forward; think of a narrow canyon off in the distance: you're pretty sure you can jump the canyon, but first you need to get there.

Star Black walked the short distance back to the living room where her band was once more gathering. "The lower story is not a story at all," the house intoned. I must assume that the defective Ninety-One machine was referring to the extended unit set into the base of the canyon face. That would place it lower than the house, which is accurate, but it is a thousand meters down, connected only by a small express lift." "So, there's something at the bottom of the canyon and there's a way to get down to it," Jameson said, with no doubt from his tone that he was eager to find out more, and immediately go exploring. "That's correct and accurate," the house stated. "So, where's the lift and when can we go down?" "The lift is rising, but it's of an old variety and will take some time to reach the dwelling." "Rising?" Star said, her voice piercing in tone, stopping all activity in the room. "Why would it be rising?" "There were no humans in the vicinity, as loosely defined when you pointedly used the word'outside' in your question," the house shot back, it's tone almost one of faint or vague petulance. "How could anyone get in the lift and use it if they aren't an administrator?" she asked, realizing when she got the words out that the answer to that question was right there among them. So much was happening at once Star couldn't figure out what to do first. They had members of Sly's band, who had somehow gotten to the bottom of the canyon and were riding up to arrive at the dwelling at any moment, as a possible and vital life or death issue. "The nodes and the lifts do not require the code to be provided by an administrator," the house said. "Unlike accessing the main complex entity and myself, they only require a spoken or written code." "Give me the device," Jameson said across the room to True, "and you better pray that we don't find any more on you when there's time to search you." The boy slunk against the wall, standing with his back against the stone that extended out from the fireplace, which still exuded heat even though the flames were gone. He held out his open hand, palm up, with a small black electronic device laying upon it. The device had a short antenna sticking out of it. "I don't have anymore, that's the last one," he murmured in the silence, as everyone waited to see what was going to happen next. "I didn't know who was going to win," True said, his voice soft but faintly rebellious. "If Star won I knew it would be okay, but if Sly won then what was I to do, die with everyone else?" Jameson stepped quickly forward and swept the device off True's exposed palm. He threw it down and smashed it into bits with the butt of his rifle before anything could be said or other action taken. Once done, Jameson raised his rifle up to point at True. "We're out of time, Jameson," Star said loudly, demanding the boy's full attention. We've got to get to the top of the lift before it gets up here. Where are the lift doors, house?"

For most, the term Artificial Intelligence evokes thoughts of futuristic technologies, of C-3PO and Asimov's "I,Robot." We think of walking, sentient robots that look like us – or at least we imagine they appear like us. What we don't generally think of is a glorified speakerbox, or a supercomputer tasked to create recipes. But that's where AI starts – with small steps and incremental advances in technology. These small steps gradually lead to giant leaps forward; think of a narrow canyon off in the distance: you're pretty sure you can jump the canyon, but first you need to get there.

A book club meets on the terrace of Aldous Huxley's to discuss "Brave New World." A book club meets on the terrace of Aldous Huxley's to discuss "Brave New World." Seated on a veranda high in the Hollywood Hills, a few book clubbers who had gathered to discuss Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" in the author's last Los Angeles home craned their necks. They weren't peering at the softening evening sky or at the Hollywood sign, which loomed so close it looked like white plastic lawn furniture, a prop to rest a drink on. The occasional helicopter had already torn past, momentarily drowning out voices ("a humming overhead had become a roar," as Huxley describes their sinister advance in the novel's climactic scene) but that hardly merited a pause in conversation.