Crime
Experts to create predictive tool to tackle hate crime in Los Angeles phys.org
Over the next three years, the team will be closely scrutinising data taken from Twitter and cross-referencing this with reported hate crimes in Los Angeles to develop markers, or signatures, which could indicate if, and where, a hate crime is likely to take place at a certain point in time, and then enable police officers to intervene.
AI
What is the difference between AI, Machine Learning, NLP, and Deep Learning? forbes
This was a submitted question - the "article" is the answer...
The first pop song ever written by artificial intelligence is pretty good, actually quartz v
The first song, “Daddy’s Car,” is a catchy, sunny tune reminiscent of The Beatles. The second song, a dreamy ditty called “Mr Shadow,” was created in the style of American musicians Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and Cole Porter.
Brain
Research drives demand for donated tissue at Auckland brain bank nzherald.co.nz
"With Alzheimer's, everyone wants to look at hippocampus. We run out of hippocampus tissue very quickly. Other parts of the brain, no one is interested in so far. The occipito temporal wikipedia.org doesn't get much interest," says Marika Eszes, the manager of the Neurological Foundation Douglas Human Brain Bank.
Research
NASA Might Send Spherical, Bouncing Tensegrity Robots to Explore Mars inverse v
An innovative “tensegrity rover” could solve some of the big problems about space exploration, making the rover out of a series of cables and rods instead of a vehicle on wheels. It can bounce, brace for impact, and even scrunch itself up into a ball.
Archeology
Antikythera Shipwreck Yields Ancient Human Skeleton history
The team was able to extract a skull, complete with jaw and three teeth, along with two arm bones, two femurs (leg bones), rib fragments and other remains from the seafloor under the shipwreck. They left other portions of the 2,100-year-old skeleton behind, still buried in the sand, to be excavated later.
Creatures
New Two-Lensed Camera Shows What It's Like to Ride on the Back of Whale gizmodo v
On the surface of it, filter-feeding sounds like a painstakingly straightforward process: whale opens mouth, whale gobbles-up copious amounts of krill, whale closes mouth. Those may be the broad strokes, but it’s actually more complicated. Because we rarely have an opportunity to observe whales in their undersea habitat, researchers have struggled to understand the finer details of the process, such as the speeds at which whales approach their tiny prey, how quickly they can change direction, and how they adjust in the presence of fish.
Israel
Quartet calls Israel out for ongoing settlement activity jpost
The Middle East Quartet quartetoffice.org called Israel out on Friday for its ongoing settlement activity, which they said is “an obstacle to peace”.
Representatives of the Quartet, which include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, United States Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union Representative Federica Mogherini, met in New York on the last day of the UN General debate. They were also joined by the Foreign Ministers of Egypt and France during the second part of the meeting to brief on their work to support Middle East peace.
Syrian Army forces pour into area near Israel border, prepare operation' jpost
A source reportedly told Fars, "A large contingent of the fourth mechanized divisions, comprised of recent graduates from the Syrian Arab Army's Special Forces school in Deir Attiyah, have joined the 90th Brigade's headquarters in Golan Heights, where they will await orders to launch a large-scale offensive."
Space
10, 9, 8 ... China prepares to flick the switch on world’s biggest telescopic eye on the sky scmp
Along with other massive facilities that Beijing plans to build, the telescope, which as [sic] a diameter of 500 metres, could entice international researchers to the country as it tries to catch up with the United States in generating discoveries.
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