Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one of the golden eras of college radio. I spent a significant ...

Fireworks light up the night as the lights come on on the tree at last year's annual Boston Common tree lighting. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning ...

The big picture: In 2019, Google's Sycamore chip achieved quantum supremacy by solving a random number problem that would have taken the fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to complete. Although that ...

Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader ...

Dollar Tree Inc. is betting that offering a wider variety of prices for its goods will fuel earnings and sales growth over the next three years. At a presentation for investors, Chief Financial ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

HONDA. IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE WE ARE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT THIS. THE SEARCH FOR MILWAUKEE’S OFFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREE NOW UNDERWAY. I KNOW IT’S ONLY SEPTEMBER, BUT THE TREE WILL STAND IN THE DEER DISTRICT ...

The calendar says August but the holiday season is top of mind for the Downtown Dayton Partnership as the organization begins its search for the perfect tree to be the centerpiece of the 2025 Dayton ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, announced new performance and cost-efficiency breakthroughs with two significant enhancements to its vector search. Users ...

AI upstarts were supposed to lay siege to Google’s search-engine dominance. So far, the defense is winning. Google’s ubiquitous search tool has proven surprisingly resilient to competition from the ...