Technology and Tools

5+ hour, 24+ min ago   (599+ words) A US biotech company says it is making progress toward its goal of resurrecting the dodo, the famous flightless bird with a large hooked beak, and returning it to its native Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, where humans drove it…...

6+ hour, 19+ min ago   (1244+ words) Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences introduced an AI platform it is using in its efforts to revive the extinct dodo. [Image: Colossal Biosciences] Despite limited dodo genomic data, GenoMorph has identified an estimated 2,300 candidate genetic elements that may determine beak size and…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (685+ words) 25 years after taking flight, a surviving packet from the world's most impractical network has attracted a $4,000 bid A piece of internet history that once traveled strapped to a pigeon's leg is up for auction at Christie's, where someone has already…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (236+ words) In this episode, Ed and Dan explain what happens to FERS retirement benefits when a former federal employee dies before receiving their deferred FERS annuity. They discuss when a surviving spouse may be eligible for a monthly survivor annuity, when…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (349+ words) In a major step towards keeping a systematic count of migratory bird species arriving in Haryana every year, particularly during the peak migration season in November and December, the Haryana Forest and Wildlife Department is planning to install Artificial Intelligence…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (399+ words) External media is paused. Its provider may receive your IP address and use cookies when loaded. The FEED 1’s cutting-edge technology includes millimeter-wave radar, which activates the camera as a bird approaches. This allows for precise recording from the moment…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (168+ words) Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿 It's for beginner birders who want to know "what was that sound?" without staring at a phone, hikers and runners in low- or no-signal areas, and privacy-minded people who don't want their…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (649+ words) University of Michigan researchers show that large language models like Claude and ChatGPT can mine millions of comments on citizen-science platforms such as eBird and iNaturalist to extract rare data on species interactions....

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (710+ words) It’s the one axis nothing acoustic feeds. A model reads what you said against a four-part frame. Here’s how that works, and where it falls short. Last time we explained why vocal energy is our weakest measurement. That was a…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (678+ words) A wind-tunnel study shows that a bird-nostril-inspired pair of pressure sensors, combined with spanwise pressure taps, lets a follower aircraft predict its aerodynamic efficiency and locate energy-saving positions in a leader's wake....