How A Toxic Former Tin Mine Sparked The Banyan Tree Luxury Hotel Empire

As Banyan Group opens its 100th hotel, we look back at its sustainable journey. Claire Chiang and her husband, Ho Kwon Pin, did not set out to become sustainability leaders. Chiang, a sociologist, and ...
IEEE

BstPIR: Keyword Private Information Retrieval Based on Binary Search Trees

Abstract: In Internet of Things (IoT) systems, the storage and retrieval of data are often provided by remote servers (e.g., the cloud) due to the constrained resources of devices. Private information ...
The Washington Post

Climate change is coming for D.C.’s trees, and the city won’t look the same

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The old tree had survived plenty. Branches tangled in power lines. Dogs ...
Scientific American

New DNA Search Engine Brings Order to Biology’s Big Data

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...
ZDNet

ChatGPT is reportedly scraping Google Search data to answer your questions - here's how

Reports reveal that OpenAI uses Google Search data to answer some of users' questions. The topics that use Google Search data mostly surround news, sports, and financial markets. OpenAI retrieves the ...
Marketplace

Federal data has been disappearing under Trump

There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists ...
Wired

CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones

United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is asking tech companies to pitch digital forensics tools that are designed to process and analyze text messages, pictures, videos, and contacts from ...
Search Engine Land

Google AI Mode traffic data comes to Search Console

Google’s AI Mode counts toward the totals you see in your Search Console Performance report, starting today. Also, Google updated its Search Console help document (What are impressions, position, and ...
Reuters

AI-driven search ad spending set to surge to $26 billion by 2029, data shows

June 4 (Reuters) - Spending on AI-powered search advertising is poised to surge to nearly $26 billion by 2029 from just over $1 billion this year in the U.S., driven by rapid adoption of the ...
KELOLAND News

Structure damage, split trees left behind after storm

VERMILLION, S.D. (KELO) — Heavy rain and strong winds have left behind damaged buildings, split trees and scattered branches in southeast South Dakota. City crews in Vermillion wasted no time clearing ...
Drexel University

Newborns Living Near Trees Tend to Be Healthier. New Data Suggests It’s Not Because Healthier People Reside Near Parks.

The link between proximity to greenspace — including trees and parks— and healthy birth outcomes is well established. Now new data from researchers at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public ...