Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an above-normal risk of wildfires at some point in the next four months. When you ...

Garmin appears to be expanding its social sharing tools with a new feature that will feel instantly familiar to Strava users. The update introduces transparent activity overlays in the Garmin Connect ...

As a rare early-season heat wave sends temperatures soaring across Southern California, new research from UCLA reveals a troubling reality: extreme heat does not threaten all communities equally. Heat ...

Abstract: Visual odometry (VO) is a key part of autonomous navigation systems, particularly for robots and autonomous vehicles. Conventional feature-based or direct approaches for VO are powerful but ...

The Ridgecrest Planning Commission at its Tuesday meeting voted to recommend to the city council that it adopt a “dark skies” ordinance and add a Military Influence Area overlay district on portions ...

What started as a routine pull request on a popular Python project turned into something closer to an AI-fueled grudge post. After a volunteer reviewer shut down an automated code submission, the bot ...

On February 11, the pull request was technically sound. It offered 24% faster code with benchmarks to prove it. But when matplotlib maintainer Scott Shambaugh discovered the contributor was an AI ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

On Dec. 23, the Frederick County Council voted to expand the overlay map for data centers far beyond what the Frederick County Planning Commission recommended.

Frederick County Council President Brad Young said the council will likely enact a data center overlay map near Adamstown that’s a hybrid of proposals from the county executive’s office and the ...

City officials are closing in on a final draft of Southport’s proposed Local Historic District Overlay map after a two-hour joint workshop Oct. 15. Aldermen met with members of the Southport Historic ...