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Cameras are replacing line judges at Wimbledon. Line judges were as much a part of the Wimbledon tennis championships as strawberries and cream. But their demise in favor of technology is being felt by both players and fans alike. John McEnroe famously ranted and raved at the smartly dressed on-court officials but they have called "out" for the final time and been replaced by an electronic line-calling (ELC) system. Some players say they find the new calls

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the world of high finance, companies are hedging their bets on artificial intelligence (AI). Indeed, AI has already been used in algorithmic trading and fraud detection. As the technology grows more powerful and autonomous, so there is an urgent need to put in place checks and balances to ensure ethical and valid use of these tools. Research published in the International Journal of Business Information Systems now offe

Image analysis of a refrigerator to measure and locate features. Credit: Fraunhofer IPK Household appliances need to be refurbished and/or recycled at the end of their useful lives. The KIKERP project (see below) aims to harness artificial intelligence to collect information about used appliances and determine parameters such as model and condition to help decide whether a particular device should be refurbished or recycled. In the case of recycling, the a

The researchers tested their meta emitter materials by painting model buildings with them and leaving them in the sun to test temperature. Credit: The University of Texas at Austin New materials developed using machine learning and artificial intelligence could, among other things, keep your house cooler and reduce energy bills. Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, National University of Singapore and Umea Univ

Credit: CC0 Public Domain UCLA researchers have made a significant discovery showing that biological brains and artificial intelligence systems develop remarkably similar neural patterns during social interaction. This first-of-its-kind study reveals that when mice interact socially, specific brain cell types synchronize in "shared neural spaces," and AI agents develop analogous patterns when engaging in social behaviors. The study, "Inter-brain neural dyn

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When we write something to another person, over email or perhaps on social media, we may not state things directly, but our words may instead convey a latent meaning—an underlying subtext. We also often hope that this meaning will come through to the reader. But what happens if an artificial intelligence (AI) system is at the other end, rather than a person? Can AI, especially conversational AI, understand the latent meani

In a new study, Assistant Professor Vlad Ayzenberg and other researchers found preschoolers’ visual object recognition to be much better than AI’s capabilities. Credit: Joseph V. Labolito As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly grows—a recent UN Trade and Development report projects the global AI market soaring to $4.8 trillion by 2033—the technology seems equipped to handle any task. Driving cars. Analyzing medical images. Making music. Having a conversat

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Dozens of Europe's biggest companies urged the EU to hit the pause button on its landmark AI rules on Thursday, warning that going too fast could harm the bloc's ability to lead in the global AI race. The European Union's sweeping rules on artificial intelligence entered into force last year but the bloc has since pivoted to strengthening its industries in the face of fierce competition from China and the United States. T

Aigen's solar-powered autonomous robots aim to take the chemicals and toil out of industrial weeding. Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotton field in California, plucking out weeds. As farms across the United States face a shortage of laborers and weeds grow resistant to herbicides, startup Aigen says its robotic solution—named Element—can save farmers mon

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The language capabilities of today's artificial intelligence systems are astonishing. We can now engage in natural conversations with systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and many others, with a fluency nearly comparable to that of a human being. Yet we still know very little about the internal processes in these networks that lead to such remarkable results. A study titled "A Phase Transition between Positional and Semantic Lea

Credit: Mikael Blomkvist from Pexels Advertising is a combination of art and science, and for a small business competing with big brands, it can be hard—and costly—to develop ads that connect with consumers. But a team of researchers led by a Virginia Commonwealth University professor has developed a method of using artificial intelligence in ad creation, which could help level the playing field for businesses and lead to more targeted marketing to consume

Example cases of plant with emerging inflorescences from ground A), plants not yet heading B, C), and plants after heading D, E) from UAV imagery collected in the 2020 season. Credit: Plant Physiology (2025). DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiaf132 Scientists developed a machine-learning tool that can teach itself, with minimal external guidance, to differentiate between aerial images of flowering and nonflowering grasses—an advance that will greatly increase the pace

Credit: University of Waterloo As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) continue to reshape the workforce, the University of Waterloo is at the forefront of finding solutions to this challenge. With the increasing value placed on hands-on data analytics training, the School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) at Waterloo recently hired a new faculty member to specifically lead a new project-based AI course. This means that students won't just learn about

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Today DSE and the University of Arkansas published a study in the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualization and an open source tool that show the need for changes to federal crop insurance programs that could benefit farmers, companies, and the climate. The open-source tool uses artificial intelligence to depict a likely future for the U.S. corn industry, in which growers and insurance companies face increasin

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is driving a seismic shift in how we approach weather forecasting, with a flurry of new AI weather prediction models debuting in recent years that have a number of potential advantages over traditional models. These include faster speeds, reduced demand for computing resources, and improved forecast performance for some weather phenomena, especially over longer time periods. Despite the excitement a

BiaPy environment and scope. Credit: Nature Methods (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02699-y An international team of researchers has developed BiaPy, an open-code artificial intelligence platform that facilitates the analysis of biomedical images using deep learning techniques. The work has been published in Nature Methods. The team was led by Ignacio Arganda (University of the Basque Country—UPV/EHU, Ikerbasque, Donostia International Physics Center, and

Ideal plant architecture for sugarcane and other cereal crops. Credit: IGDB In an article published in Molecular Plant on April 8, researchers led by Prof. Wang Bing and Prof. Li Jiayang from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed an innovative concept of "ideal plant architecture for sugarcane" and discussed the challenges, opportunities, and strategies for shaping it. This article

Data cycle workflow for implementing FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) principles in biomolecular simulations. Credit: Nature Methods (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02635-0 More than a hundred experts in molecular simulation have published a paper in the journal Nature Methods calling for a paradigm shift in molecular dynamics data management. The paper, led by Modesto Orozco, professor at the University of Barcelona, and the expert

A newly developed metasurface-based silicon antireflective coating combines rectangular and cylindrical meta-atom geometries. The metasurface achieves just 5% reflection, compared to approximately 50% reflection with an unstructured silicon solar cell. Credit: Advanced Photonics Nexus (2025). DOI: 10.1117/1.APN.4.3.036009 Converting sunlight into electricity is the task of photovoltaic solar cells, but nearly half the light that reaches a flat silicon sola