Both the United States and China are considering possible security policies aimed to control the creation of artificial intelligence, or AI. The Biden administration is seeking public comments on rules for guiding the artificial intelligence industry. China’s internet supervisor recently announced proposed laws related to AI. ChatGPT is a new AI program that has captured wide…
Life in a city can be especially hard for a tree. Buildings, pollution, poor soil, insects, and even car crashes can add to tree loss. Now, the warming climate is making a tree’s life even harder. Between 2016 and 2021, a report from the city of Seattle in Washington state said the city lost about 255 hectares…
Security experts say artificial intelligence (AI) systems used by businesses can make serious, costly mistakes. But one way to avoid such mistakes is for companies to employ humans to closely watch the AI. One example of AI problems that can affect businesses happened early in the COVID-19 pandemic. It involved the credit scoring company Fair Isaac Corporation,…
A NASA-led international mission launched a radar satellite from southern California early on Friday. The satellite will be involved in a major project to research the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers. The satellite is called SWOT, short for Surface Water and Ocean Topography. It is designed to give scientists a never-before-seen view of Earth’s water,…
More governments increased plans to support renewable energy and reduce emissions from fossil fuels, like oil and gas, in 2022. In India, the government plans to send $2.6 billion to support the manufacture of equipment used for solar energy. Companies like Renew Power hope to gain from the plan. The energy company has over 100 clean energy…
The American space agency NASA’s Mars explorer has begun dropping rock samples it collected on the planet’s surface. A different spacecraft is to recover the samples at a future date and return them to Earth. The Perseverance explorer, or rover, landed on Mars in February 2021. It has been collecting rock, soil and atmospheric samples at Mars’…
On Sunday, Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter asking users if he should step down as chief of the social media company. The billionaire businessman bought Twitter in October for $44 billion. Musk wrote: “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.” To abide means to accept. The…
A recent study found what could be the earliest known evidence of ancient cooking: the leftovers of a fish dinner from 780,000 years ago. Cooking helped change our ancestors. It helped fuel our evolution and gave us bigger brains. Later, cooking would become central to the eating celebrations that brought communities together. The new study,…
