Smartphones and wearables collect real-time data—like traffic flow, air quality, and crowd density—that fuel smart-city services. But when too many devices offload data at once, networks slow down and ...

In February 2021, seven Russian poultry-farm workers were reported to have been infected with H5N8 avian influenza. This subtype of bird flu had never been known to infect people before, and the virus ...

I have gotten on a Tower Defense game kick, and thought it might be fun to write my own. Well, the level design, "tower" design, etc. would be fun but not the maze traversal algorithm (I don't enjoy ...

Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect human lives. What Amsterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm taught me about fair ...

A new UOC-led project will analyze inhabitants' mobility to design more efficient and sustainable shared transport solutions The UPV, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Spindox Labs, a ...

As more and more people drive electric cars, congestion and queues can occur when many people need to charge at the same time. A new study shows how AI-controlled charging stations, through smart ...

We are offloading more and more sophisticated knowledge work to smart technology. But the public won't be demanding the head of the algorithm when something goes awry. Rather it will be the company ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and software algorithms are steadily enhancing sensing designs for a range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and that’s apparent from the sensor solutions unveiled ...

FluLeap is a machine-learning algorithm that uses sequence data to classify influenza viruses as either avian or human. The model had been trained on a huge number of influenza genomes—including ...