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Al Gore’s Climate TRACE Tracking Group Finds Vast Undercounts of Emissions

Sep 16, 2021 | Climate, Featured

A high-tech independent effort to track greenhouse gas emissions from every country, industrial facility and power plant announced its first results on Monday. Climate TRACE utilizes satellite data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to determine...

NASA Lab Examines Use of Autonomous Cars and How Their Safety is Affected by Sleepiness

Sep 16, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Safety

With vehicles today being only partially automated, the requirement for the human driver to stay alert, monitor the road, and take over at a moment’s notice leaves drivers more susceptible to sleepiness — especially when they’re sleep deprived,...

Unleash the Robots and Save the Economy

Sep 8, 2021 | Robots

Before the pandemic, headline-grabbing advances in artificial intelligence and robotics — such as gaming champ AlphaGo becoming the first computer program to beat a human professional player at the board game Go, and those cool/scary videos of...

Astronauts in Space to Resurrect AI Robot Friend Called CIMON

Sep 8, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Space

An AI-powered robot with a digital face is ready for a new mission on the International Space Station. The robot, called CIMON-2 (it’s short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) worked alongside two European astronauts on past missions to...

Energy Dept: 40 Percent Solar Feasible by 2035

Sep 8, 2021 | Energy, Featured, Solar

The Energy Department says solar energy can produce up to 40% of the nation’s electricity within 15 years — a 10-fold increase of current solar output that would require massive changes in U.S. policy and billions of dollars in federal investment. In...