When Hanna Wallach first started testing machine learning models, the tasks were well-defined and easy to evaluate. Did the model correctly identify the cats in an image? Did it accurately predict the ...

For-hire trucking—as opposed to in-house private carriers that transport the goods of their parent company—is a large and heterogeneous industry with considerable variability in carrier sizes, ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB An audit by the Oregon secretary of state’s office has found gaps in the state health authority’s implementation of Ballot Measure 110, the state’s landmark drug ...

The answers to your question, respectively, are yes and no. Yes, RFID can measure distance. There is an English soccer club—I’m not permitted to say which one—that has deployed a solution for tracking ...

Pain is hard to measure. One person’s “ouch” is another’s agony. Now, scientists say they’ve found a better way of assessing pain: putting a price on it. By translating pain into dollars, they’ve ...

Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...

It was a sweltering afternoon at a Walmart near Traverse City, Michigan. Families moved up and down the aisles, oblivious to the danger looming nearby—until chaos erupted. In seconds, 11 people went ...

From AR-powered rulers to GPS-based land survey tools, these 8 best measuring apps for iPhone and Android let you measure length, height, area, and even perimeters on the go. Accurate, versatile, and ...

Austin temperatures on Thursday are expected to hit 101 degrees, while the muggy air will make it feel more like 104. We’ve all heard the saying, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,” to describe ...

As more companies roll out or refine their return-to-office (RTO) policies, leaders face a critical question: How do you know if your policy is working? Beyond badge swipes and attendance logs, ...

What if we said you could run farther and faster, while sidestepping fatigue and avoiding injury, simply by incorporating precisely planned recovery intervals? That’s right, we’re talking about the ...