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Last July, Extension specialists in southwest Missouri started to notice strange symptoms in their corn crop: purpling in the leaf tips, stunted plants, and abnormal ears. Then, they started to notice the corn leafhoppers. “We estimate from the time we first found them in July to the end of the season, 90% of the state was covered by corn leafhoppers,” said Mandy Bish, an Extension crop pathologist at the University of Missouri. A DNA analysis of diseased plants confirmed suspicions: Missouri had its first documented case of corn stunt. What Is Corn Stunt? First identified in Argentina in the 1990s,…
Stay up to date with everything that is happening in the wonderful world of AM via our LinkedIn community.A research team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new software tool that makes it easier to design and make cable-driven 3D printed objects. The tool, called Xstrings, can be used to produce a variety of products with embedded actuation, from robotic hands with gripping capabilities to interactive sculptures with animal-like movement.Cable-driven mechanisms are frequently used by engineers to create components that can move fluidly like a human or animal. This movement is generated by pulling…
IBM’s Cloud Multizone Region (MZR) in Montreal opens doors to support Canada’s regulated industries with cloud solutions which prioritize data sovereignty through resiliency, performance, security, and compliance IBM’s watsonx® AI portfolio available on IBM Cloud® at Toronto MZR, enabling Canadian organizations to scale AI solutions in country TORONTO and MONTREAL, April 3, 2025 /CNW/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today two key advances in its cloud capabilities in Canada, further strengthening offerings to enable Canadian organizations to scale AI deployments, and to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements for data storage and security including Canadian data sovereignty. IBM officially opened the…
People’s admiration of art is firmly rooted in their search for themselves in it. Art must resemble their memories, their loneliness, or the idea of love they once believed in. The idea of “I” is critical for the consumer.Story continues below this ad This is why the comments under a Sylvia Plath quote on social media often read, “She is so me,” even if the person writing it may not have the appetite for the darkness Plath lived with or written a poem, ever. But faint resemblance is enough. The illusion of seeing yourself in an artwork is comforting. This…
At MIT, groundbreaking ideas blend science and breast cancer detection innovation Scientists uncover hidden asteroids while wearable ultrasound devices help detect cancer Updated: 8:14 PM EDT Apr 2, 2025 AT MIT, THEY’RE WORKING ON DODGING ASTEROIDS. MOTHER EARTH RECENTLY DODGED A BULLET. AN ASTEROID THE SIZE OF AN EIGHT STORY BUILDING. BUT WE’RE NOT ENTIRELY IN THE CLEAR. YEAH, THERE MIGHT BE MORE BULLETS COMING. OR RATHER, THEY ARE JUST MORE BULLETS. AS HUMANITY KEEPS ON IMPROVING ITS TECHNOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO FIND THIS KIND OF THING, NEVER FEAR, EARTHLINGS. JULIAN DEWITT AND ARTEM BOGDANOV HAVE US COVERED. THESE SCIENTISTS AT…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Birkenstock on Tuesday announced that it opened its tenth owned retail location in the U.S. in Nashville, Tennessee, according to a company press release. The store features products for men, women and children, including sandals, sneakers, clogs, shoes and boots. Shoppers can also view the brand’s Care Essentials collection of foot care products. In a separate announcement on Thursday, Birkenstock said it was continuing its expansion in France with a new store in Paris. Dive Insight: Birkenstock described Nashville as “the perfect…
Oracle Corp. and Google LLC’s cloud unit today announced an expanded partnership with broader regional coverage, additional services aimed at disaster recovery and a low-cost entry offering for customers that want to adopt Oracle’s Exadata high-performance database platform. Oracle Database@Google Cloud, which is a version of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that runs natively on Google Cloud, will expand to eight new regions with the addition of U.S. Central 1 (Iowa), North America-Northeast 1 (Montreal), North America-Northeast 2 (Toronto), Asia-Northeast 1 (Tokyo), Asia-Northeast 2(Osaka), Asia-South 1 (Mumbai), Asia-South 2 (Delhi), and South America-East 1 (Sao Paulo). The service is currently available in U.S.…
Joan Mitchell, Iva, 1973 a new donation to Tate Modern, LondonTate The UK’s four Tate galleries are among the most visited in the world with their permanent collections of over 70,000 works of modern and contemporary art free for all to view. Today, the Tate Modern unveiled Iva, a spectacular abstract painting by American artist Joan Mitchell, one of a group of works being donated by Miami’s Pérez family to the nation, alongside an endowment to fund curatorial research. One of The Seagram Murals, by Mark Rothko at Tate ModernGetty Images Joan Mitchell’s vast six-metre-long triptych, entitled Iva (1973), is…
Last November, Google began using AI to generate review summaries in Google Maps. Well, now they seem to be showing up in the local knowledge panels on the right side of the Google Search results page. These are summaries of the business, not review summaries.Amy Toman spotted this and posted about it on Bluesky – she wrote:Saw a couple of fun new elements on a GBP this morning: an AI-generated summary, and the option to report it. The summary is nicely detailed, and the option to report it will be very helpful over time (I’ve had a lot of business…
Image: seventyfourimages/Envato Elements The EU is pouring €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) over the next two years to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. The funding will support the development and testing of “immersive environments” to apply in healthcare for purposes like training and virtual patient assessments. The investment will also support the implementation of the AI Act, which ensures all AI systems developed and used in the EU are done so safely and responsibly. Additionally, it will help build energy-efficient digital public digital infrastructure, including electric vehicle charging ports. Many of the generative AI models powering these initiatives will…