As plastics clog the Great Lakes, industry presses to make more and downplays dangers, Tribune analysis finds

More than 8 billion tons of plastic waste clog the planet. If stacked within Chicago’s Millennium Park, plastic dumped into ...
IEEE

PL-VAP: A Tightly Coupled Self-Localization Framework for Underwater Robots Using Point-Line Features and Visual-Acoustic-Pressure Sensor Fusion

Abstract: Due to the sparse underwater textures, pure visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is limited, restricting the localization ability of underwater robots. To improve the ...
Mashable

I spent a week using AI tools in my daily life. Here's how it went.

We examine how AI is changing the future of work — and how, in many ways, that future is already here. Every tech company you can think of is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon and touting new ...
jacobin

Nobody Wants Data Centers in Their Backyard

New polling shows that most Americans hate the prospect of data centers being built in their communities. The opposition is entirely predictable, not least because data centers seem to offer little ...
The Boston Globe

Mansfield becomes first town in Mass. to pass near-total ban on data centers

As Massachusetts communities confront the rapid rise of data centers tied to artificial intelligence and cloud computing, Mansfield has positioned itself at the front of the state’s response. At the ...
The Guardian

Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US, research says

Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash Datacentres are consuming 6% of electricity in the UK and US, with the growing strain ...