TechCrunch

Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods

Flash floods are among the deadliest weather events in the world, killing more than 5,000 people each year. They’re also among the most difficult to predict. But Google thinks it has cracked that ...
Gizmodo

It’s Getting Hot Down Here: Subway Systems Have an Extreme Heat Problem

I’ve lived in New York City for nearly four years now, and while I may be a few years shy of true “New Yorker” status, I know as well as anyone that the worst time to ride the subway is in peak summer ...
Interesting Engineering

China builds massive 3D face database to sharpen humanoid robots using point clouds

Humanoid robots are becoming harder to distinguish from real people, and a new study from China points to one reason why. Researchers have developed a large-scale 3D facial dataset and a new AI model ...
The Real News Network

Hegseth demands Anthropic let military use AI however it wants—even for autonomous killer drones and spying on Americans

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to punish the artificial intelligence company Anthropic if it doesn’t let the Pentagon use its technology however it wants—apparently even to create ...
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Framing the Convergence of One Health and Digital Health in the Global South With a Gender-Sensitive Foresight Perspective: Delphi Study Using Latent Semantic Analysis

Objective: This study aimed to map and classify expert discourse on digital health, One Health, and their convergence in the Global South using latent semantic analysis, with particular attention to ...
IEEE

TURSpider: A Turkish Text-to-SQL Dataset and LLM-Based Study

Abstract: This paper introduces TURSpider, a novel Turkish Text-to-SQL dataset developed through human translation of the widely used Spider dataset, aimed at addressing the current lack of complex, ...
ZDNet

You can use Slack, Asana, and Figma directly inside Claude now - here's how

Claude can now interface with workplace apps within a chat. The chatbot could become the main digital interface for business. Other AI developers are also trying to expand their reach. AI startup ...
Futurism

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

As corporate consolidation and ideological capture continue to wreak havoc on journalism across the world, some might be wondering if the dire media landscape could get any worse. To answer that ...
TechCrunch

Google announces a new protocol to facilitate commerce using AI agents

Google on Sunday announced a new open standard called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference. The standard, developed ...
InfoQ

DuckDB's WebAssembly Client Allows Querying Iceberg Datasets in the Browser

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...