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Desalination technology, by the numbers

When I started digging into desalination technology for a new story, I couldn’t help but obsess over the numbers. I’d known on some level that desalination—pulling salt out of seawater to produce fresh water—was an increasingly important technology, especially in water-stressed regions including the Middle East. But just how much some countries rely on desalination,

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Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over.

A rare warm spell in January melted enough snow to uncover Cornell University’s newest athletic field, built for field hockey. Months before, it was a meadow teeming with birds and bugs; now it’s more than an acre of synthetic turf roughly the color of the felt on a pool table, almost digital in its saturation.

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A Maker of Pet Toys in Ukraine Turns to Killer Drones

An entrepreneur behind drones that make the final strike themselves epitomizes the transformation of Ukraine’s civilian technology industry into a defense powerhouse.

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Interview with Sukanya Mandal: Synthesizing multi-modal knowledge graphs for smart city intelligence

In their paper LLMasMMKG: LLM Assisted Synthetic Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Creation For Smart City Cognitive Digital Twins, which was published in the AAAI Fall Symposium series, Sukanya Mandal and Noel O’Connor introduced an approach that leverages large language models to automate the construction of synthetic multi-modal knowledge graphs specifically designed for a smart city cognitive

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