A bird’s brain holds clues to the sounds of music

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

I spent a fortune on a Copilot+ PC, and I’ve barely ever touched Microsoft’s AI

My Copilot+ PC has dedicated AI hardware and its own Copilot key, yet Microsoft’s assistant has barely earned a place in my ...
IFLScience

We Use “Birdbrain” As An Insult – But That’s Not Only Unfair, It’s Scientifically Inaccurate

Birdbrain” is typically used to describe someone who has demonstrated limited intelligence. This is deeply unfair, because ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

‘The more we tag, the more we learn’: Bird-tracking tech challenges status quo

A Wilson’s phalarope took to the skies in north-central Montana before dawn on June 21 and flew about 350 miles to eastern Idaho in 6½ hours. Its unexpected journey, captured by the Motus Wildlife ...
Ars Technica

One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime “assembly line”

International authorities and a raft of private technology companies say they have disrupted a cybercrime “assembly line” that allowed crooks to collect millions of login credentials and steal more ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Queensland researchers use drones and AI to capture bird data critical to conservation efforts

More than half of all bird species globally are in decline, with about 200 Australian species facing extinction. Queensland researchers have led a study into using AI to collate bird numbers from ...
Phys.org

Using AI to learn a bird's individual song

Darin McNeil, Ph.D., an assistant professor of wildlife management in the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, is partnering with the University of ...
ecoportal.net

Princeton engineers borrowed a trick from bird feathers and built wings that recover from stalls on their own

On an old airstrip at Princeton’s Forrestal Campus — once a working airport — a small radio-controlled plane kept doing something it wasn’t supposed to do: stalling, then catching itself. Researchers ...
IEEE

Detection of Birds in the Wild using Deep Learning Methods

Abstract: Object detection and localization is one of the prominent applications of the computer vision. The paper presents a comparative study of state of the art deep learning methods-YOLOv2, YOLOv3 ...
Science Daily

This AI app can tell which dinosaur made a footprint

Dinosaur footprints have always been mysterious, but a new AI app is cracking their secrets. DinoTracker analyzes photos of fossil tracks and predicts which dinosaur made them, with accuracy rivaling ...
Science Friday

Backyard birds have a deep dino history

In “The Story of Birds,” the familiar creatures in our skies and backyards are reintroduced as the last surviving dinosaurs. The following is an excerpt from “The Story of Birds: A New History from ...
Miami New Times

What’s the Deal With the Tech Bro Taking on a Threatened Florida Bird?

Found almost exclusively in the scrub and scrubby flatwoods of Florida, the Florida scrub jay is the only bird species endemic to the Sunshine State — meaning, it lives nowhere else on Earth. It’s ...