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Duarte told Chami that scientists had recently mapped what he believed to be 40 percent of the world's seagrass, all in one place: the Bahamas. Chami's solution to these niggling scientific uncertainties is to focus instead on the global picture: Earth's seagrass meadows sit atop vast stores of carbon, and destruction has the potential to visit all of them. One seagrass meadow can be ignored; a seagrass market, which encompasses many meadows and represents a major investment, cannot. The numerous seagrass scientists I spoke with expressed a common wish that Chami's simplified carbon math could be true. [Extracted from the article]

One of Palmer's closest friends, the fantasy writer Jo Walton, tells me that, for a person who thinks a lot about the progression of events, Palmer has absolutely no concept of time. Recently, I told Palmer about a cryptocurrency conference in San Francisco that included a seminar about how Covid will produce a golden era, like the Black Death produced the Renaissance. FEATURES RARELY INTEREST THE SCI-FI AUTHOR ADA PALMER. Like Wolfe, who shaped the metaphysics of Book of the New Sun around his own Catholic views, Palmer would incorporate her own hodgepodge of theological and intellectual influences - a divine plan shaped by a historian's view of how society actually progresses. [Extracted from the article]

Fraga had decided the buckwheat was hers to protect. As we paused, Fraga noted that if the government had funded more studies of this rare plant in the 1990s, after Tiehm had surveyed it, she'd be more prepared to make a case for it to those, unlike her and Donnelly, who don't instinctively feel an emotional connection to a plant living on a remote Nevada ridge. To Fraga, the value of a plant is rooted not in beauty or usefulness, or even curiosity and wonder, but in the fact that a species exists uniquely on this earth. When Donnelly thought about giving up, Fraga reminded him there were still plants left to save. [Extracted from the article]

FEATURES Is the brain a useful model for AI? It's possible that AI models don't need to mimic the brain at all. The machine-learning algorithms behind many recent AI milestones can't be programmed or reverse-engineered in the same way as conventional software. As we interact with more AI systems, perhaps our own remarkable capacity for learning will help us develop a theory of machine mind, to intuit their motivations and behavior. [Extracted from the article]

Buolamwini, now working on a PhD at MIT, is among those pressing companies and governments to be more cautious in their embrace of AI. In September, that subcommittee asked more than 80 companies for accounts of how they'd been harmed by Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Her startup, Oasis Labs, is built on the idea of differential privacy - cryptographic techniques that allow companies to incorporate data into their algorithms without seeing the individual data points. For young companies that want to accept payments - especially tech startups, which are Stripe's core clientele - that can be a costly time suck. It's a fix, he says, for "platform risk": when a big company lures in startups to build products that rely on the giant's troves of user data, only to cut off access to that data later. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses that Crispr could make the food supply more efficient and more humane but it's struggling to get out of the lab and onto the plates. Topics include animal geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam's attempt to create a strain of gene-edited cattle specially suited to the needs of the beef industry, and one of his goals is to make the raising of livestock not only more efficient but also more humane.

The article discusses the scientist Fei-Fei Li who is the researcher that built ImageNet which is a database that helps computers recognize images. It states that through the help of artificial intelligence tools like ImageNet, a computer can be taught to learn a specific task and then act far faster than human beings.

The article focuses on the Environmental Investigation Agency's (IEA) investigations of criminal behavior in Peru;s Amazonian rain forests. Topics include Alexander von Bismarck's effort to amend the Lacey Act to include stolen forests and make it a federal crime to import illegaly harvested plants, journalist Julia Urrunaga's investigation of illegal logging in the rain forests, and implications of U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Few people would have noticed anything unusual about the flower - a petunia with orange blossoms - but Teeri is a botanist. One day in 2015, Teemu Teeri was getting off a train in Helsinki when he spotted a chimera in a planter. Last year, regulators in the US repealed the ban on these petunias. [Extracted from the article]

THE FOUNDER OF MODERN SINGAPORE, Lee Kuan Yew, once credited his nation's phenomenal economic growth to two factors: multiethnic tolerance and AC. Some leaders in the island nation realize that this vast equatorial building boom poses certain risks: If AC systems hum all day long, cooling half-used rooms, that's a recipe for climate disaster. Which is why Singapore has enlisted the help of Costas Spanos, a wiry, intense electrical engineering and computer science professor at UC Berkeley who thinks he can cut office energy use by half - with the help of artificial intelligence. [Extracted from the article]

The author describes his situation where he sold his personal data on the social network Facebook to a stranger in Buenos Aires, Argentina which in turn lead him to benefit from the process by selling his data to obtain cryptocurrency from buyers as part of an experiment. He provides detailed information on the data trading process and offers information on the data trading platform called Wibson.

The article highlights the use increased use of internet as of 2019, and include the crimes related to it, the problem of hacking, and being dependent on other people such as mail carriers, city councils, health care workers.

A personal narrative is presented in which the author discusses his dislike of the artificial intelligence (AI) platform Smart Reply by technology company Google.

The article reports on the high technology advances used to protect and fight crimes in the U.S. It discusses the proposed self-guided drones send to investigate alerts from sensors detecting gunshot in Louisville, Kentucky. Also mentioned are the uploaded images of vehicles and license plates in cameras installed at intersections nationwide.

The article offers information on several treatment techniques including the use of metformin for type 2 diabetes treatment, transfusion of the old blood with the blood of the young, and reprogram and replace worn-out stem cells.

The article focuses on possible reasons of venture capital investments made by companies including investment of telecommunication company Sprint on beauty products company Oxie; Nestle's funds in therapeutic products company Seres ; and investment of transportation company Uber in HiProMine.

The article outlines several factors to consider on how to bring solar energy to low-income families in the U.S.

The article focuses on videos of drone racer Carlos Puertolas on social networking site You Tube regarding his drone-racing adventures including the "Through the Cracks," the "Right Between the Eyes" and the "Left Behind."