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Data and artificial intelligence can help drive sustainable agriculture in Asia, helping farmers increase productivity and boost their farming yield.

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A Canadian bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms is set to become law

Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management's new policies?

Models can convey biases and false information to users

NASA discusses the status of its X-57 Maxwell all-electric aircraft project.

Protecting satellites from hacks is becoming more important as industries from agriculture to banking and insurance rely on space-based capabilities.

One of the more dangerous features of student monitoring tools like GoGuardian, Gaggle, and Bark is their “flagging” functionality. The tools can scan web pages, documents in students’ cloud drives, emails, video content, and more for keywords about topics like sex, drugs, and violence. They then...

“(Bloomberg) -- The Dutch government is planning to publish new export controls that will restrict more of ASML Holding NV’s chipmaking machines from being sent to China as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter.”...

A Reddit admin told the moderators of one protesting subreddit that “the expectation here is that communities reopen.” r/DIY has reopened, but with new rules that lower the community’s quality standards for new posts.

V. Pappas, the chief operating officer of TikTok, has resigned, as first reported by The Information. In a memo Pappas posted to Twitter, they informed staff that they will no longer work as COO of the company, as they believe the ”time is right to move on and refocus.” Pappas will still stay at TikTok in an advisory role.

The new system from Google Cloud deploys AI to create a risk score built using bank information. This includes KYC data and network patterns.

Elon Musk bought the firm last year for $44bn and promised to protect free speech on the platform.

After adopting different forms of protests moderators have rebelled against the company by marking their subreddits NSFW (Not Safe For Work).

Ford's CEO said Tesla's Cybertruck is for "Silicon Valley people" not "real people who do real work."...

In all, five rats received a vitrified-then-thawed kidney in a study whose results were published this month in Nature Communications. It’s the first time scientists have shown it’s possible to successfully and repeatedly transplant a life-sustaining mammalian organ after it has been rewarmed from this icy metabolic arrest.

Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.