AI in Agriculture: How Smart Drones and Robots Are Reshaping Farming

AI in Agriculture: How Smart Drones and Robots Are Reshaping Farming

Imagine, a flock of drones flies across a soybean field in Iowa and takes thermal images of every plant. Simultaneously, an autonomous tractor corrects its course on the fly, so it does not enter wet areas that may compact the earth. This would have been unheard of a couple of years ago, and would sound Read details…

AI Decodes Herculaneum Scrolls: Lost Texts From Vesuvius Finally Revealed

AI Decodes Herculaneum Scrolls: Lost Texts From Vesuvius Finally Revealed

A Time Capsule From the Ashes Just think of a library in perdition frozen in disaster! hundreds of scrolls, immemorial secrets buried in the dust by the fury of volcanic winds. This is precisely what occurred in the Roman city of Herculaneum which was destroyed together with Pompeii in 79 AD. The carbonized papyri were Read details…

Programmable AI Agents for Legal Research and Drafting

Programmable AI Agents for Legal Research and Drafting

Consider the scenario where you brief your lawyers, and the latter is an AI agent that never sleeps, and regardless of whether you sleep, it brings available precedents, writes memos and cites legislations. It is no more science fiction. Of course, law firms and law tech startups of the future, in 2025 and beyond, are Read details…

UN Drafts Robot Rights Laws: What It Means for AI’s Future

UN Drafts Robot Rights Laws: What It Means for AI’s Future

The Invisible Revolution in the Law Just imagine the world in which a robot can sue his or her owner because he or she does not treat it well enough–or an AI that denies an order because it is dangerous. These sound like science fiction. Not anymore. The United Nations is now in the process Read details…

Cybercrime Goes Subscription with Ransomware-as-a-Service 3.0

Cybercrime Goes Subscription with Ransomware-as-a-Service 3.0

Not that Ransomware is some sort of a criminal tactic anymore, but a business model. Not only any business model but one that resembles the most startup-like SaaS companies in terms of organization and size. Modern-day cybercriminals do not stand in their dark basements. They are not only providing support tickets, affiliate, dashboards, but also Read details…