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WIND ADVISORY ISSUED FOR CUMBERLAND COUNTY AHEAD OF GUSTY SATURDAY STORMS
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (98+ words) Residents of Cumberland County should prepare for blustery conditions as the National Weather Service in Nashville has issued a Wind Advisory effective from 4:00 AM to 8:00 PM CDT on Saturday. Forecasters predict east winds ranging from 15 to 25 mph, with potentially hazardous…...
The Second Crossing
27+ min ago (1219+ words) Meredith Whittaker runs Signal. She said something recently, I’m paraphrasing, that human activity has become a resource to extract. Our personal communications. Our creative work. Our online behavior. All of it inputs into systems we don’t fully understand now, and…...
7.7-magnitude earthquake hits Panama
27+ min ago (559+ words) A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Panama on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey, sparking warnings about tsunamis off its coast. The quake had a depth of 12.6km and occurred in Herrera Province, roughly 200km to the south-west of the Panama Canal, the…...
Invisible Ink Could Make Tattoos Less Permanent
5+ hour, 52+ min ago (281+ words) Invisible, light-activated tattoo ink could interest not just body art enthusiasts but the medical field too. “They’re not beautiful, and they become a permanent reminder of a traumatic experience,” said Carson Bruns, a bioengineer at the University of Colorado Boulder…...
Thinking About Plague? Consider the Marmot.
4+ week, 1+ day ago (383+ words) This large rodent may be the surprising reason the disease was first transmitted to humans. Only scant details have emerged about the tragic death of a laboratory technician at southern Siberia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute—and although official accounts disagree, early…...
Live Oak declares state of emergency as Hurricane Isaias threatens severe weather
10+ min ago (225+ words) LIVE OAK, Fla. -- A state of emergency was declared in the City of Live Oak on Friday morning as officials prepare for potential impacts from Hurricane Isaias, with severe weather expected to begin Friday afternoon and continue through Saturday. The…...
7.7 magnitude earthquake shakes Panama
3+ min ago (163+ words) A strong earthquake has hit a portion of Panama. The quake struck along Panama’s southern coast but was felt as far away as Panama City, Reuters reported. There were no immediate reports of damage. It happened near La Pitaloza, which…...
New OECD report examines neural data governance issues
6+ hour, 24+ min ago (391+ words) The new analysis outlines key concerns related to the privacy of brain data, while offering policy recommendations for safeguarding and securely using such data for research and commercial purposes. Neurotechnology that can interpret various human brain signals stands to offer…...
A unified framework for small object analysis in UAV imagery: Tracking single target from multiple detected targets
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (169+ words) Credit: Chinese Journal of Aeronautics The CTDT framework is based on cropping and random sampling strategy: high-resolution images are evenly cropped into multiple small-sized images, from which a random batch is constantly selected without repetition and fed into a network…...
OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers in dispute over AI risks
8+ hour, 41+ min ago (311+ words) The ChatGPT maker said in a post on X that it “parted ways” with the researchers after an investigation found “they violated clear policies on handling sensitive information.” The statement comes after the three researchers, Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and…...