A new technique enables an AI agent to be guided by data crowdsourced asynchronously from nonexpert human users as it learns to complete a task through reinforcement learning. The method trains the ...

Twenty feature points were selected on the constructed 2D road network map (Ahmed’s method, Figure 11a) and 3D road network map (paper method, Figure 11b) and used for quantitative evaluation of ...

Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them. By ...

Although T-Mobile's cellular satellite service is restricted to text messaging in dead zones, a team of researchers from Spain used crowdsourced data to estimate download speeds of 4Mbps. There's ...

Nearly a decade later, the hunt for MH370 continues. We look at the citizen science initiatives that are analyzing satellite data, ocean drift models, and debris to narrow down where the plane might ...