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Grapevines are among the most economically and culturally significant crops on Earth. They remain under constant threat from fungal, bacterial and viral pathogens that attack their leaves.
Read the original →Robotic fruit picking has long promised to ease the labor shortage facing orchard growers. The description says the promise has repeatedly run into a technical problem with how a robot's camera sees a chaotic scene.
Read the original →Oil palm plantations feed one of the world's largest commodity markets. The trees that produce the vegetable oil found in half the products on supermarket shelves are hard to diagnose.
Read the original →Mark Carney's new AI council will advise on Canadian company growth, computing infrastructure and safety. Ottawa is advancing its AI for All strategy.
Read the original →Absolute has officially begun commercial operations in Kenya through its specialized agricultural division, INERA.
Read the original →Chinese smart glasses maker INMO has raised funds in a Series C3 round. Sichuan Zhenxing was among the investors.
Read the original →Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he has reduced the memory capacity of the next-generation AI chip. A prolonged shortage of memory semiconductors is spreading a move across the tech industry to install less memory.
Read the original →The report uses MyTokkyo.Ai to organize three areas of interest, from hairstyle suggestions and hair analysis to use of treatment history. It surveys domestic patent trends in beauty and AI.
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