Abstract: Leaf area index (LAI) and fractional vegetation cover (FVC) are two essential vegetation parameters for ecological and climate studies. The Chinese Gaofen-1 (GF-1) wide field view (WFV) ...

Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands. The technology alleged to have been used to execute a multistate, ...

The latest version of the Oracle database comes with agent builders and MCP Server integration to help developers embed automation into their workflows. Oracle is doubling down its focus on agentic ...

A searchable database of public records concerning use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers — some 1.5 million pages from nearly 700 law enforcement agencies — is now ...

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Four years after it was mandated by lawmakers, a database that catalogs when police use force against people is finally getting up and running, promising to add another layer of transparency in police ...

SEATTLE, Wash. – The Attorney General’s Office launched the Washington State Data Exchange for Public Safety to collect police use-of-force data from law enforcement agencies across the state. This ...

The National Institutes of Health will use information from federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid to create a "real-world data platform" to determine the cause of autism, the agency ...

Operatives from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are building a master database at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that could track and surveil undocumented ...

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In recent years, human-operated cyberattacks have undergone a dramatic transformation. These attacks, once characterized by sporadic and opportunistic attacks, have evolved into highly sophisticated, ...