This is Kusuura. The day of my lecture at my alma mater is approaching again this year, and I am updating my lecture materials (sweat). I was told about an interesting paper and thought I would ...

What is the most exhausting factor for maintenance teams in manufacturing facilities?It is the sudden line stoppages (major breakdowns), late-night emergency calls, and the 'scramble maintenance' ...

In this guest post, physicist and science writer Matt von Hippel shares what happened when he issued a challenge to AI companies regarding a problem in his former subfield of theoretical physics. It’s ...

Applied Brain Research (ABR) today announced general availability of the ABR SDK and the Niagara ASR and Nith TTS model families, a production toolkit for building real-time voice interfaces that run ...

Weeks after a Tesla Model 3 sat stopped in a live Florida interstate lane and its driver was killed, it happened again — a 2020 Model 3, stopped dead on a Phoenix-area freeway at 3 a.m., rear-ended by ...

Soccer halves are 45 minutes, making the game 90 minutes. Except at the end of each half, that little plus sign comes up on the scoreboard with a number of minutes to be added on: stoppage time. And, ...

Food labels can be confusing, with terms like sell by, best by and use by, among a few. There is limited federal requirement that product expiration dates be labeled for safety. Manufacturers choose ...

When you sell investments for a profit, you may owe capital gains tax on the money you make. How much you pay is determined by how long you owned the asset before selling it, as well as your taxable ...

Florida holds an annual 10-day Python Challenge to control the invasive Burmese python population. Participants compete for prizes, including a $10,000 grand prize for removing the most pythons. The ...

“This puts down a marker for the state to make clear that we’re modernizing our tax structure,” says Justin Marlowe, public finance expert. The Illinois budget passed June 1 includes new taxes on ...

In 1863, the world’s first underground railway opened in London. On its first day, nearly 40,000 thrilled Brits made the short, speedy journey between Paddington and Farringdon. The future of ...

The blockbuster game Minecraft depicts a world created by cubes: everything is made of discrete building blocks. It may therefore seem particularly unsuitable for calculating pi (π), the mathematical ...