Tag: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Five Ways A.I. Could Be Regulated

There is little agreement among regulators and lawmakers around the world on how artificial intelligence should — or even could — be controlled.

Time Is Running Out for the Leap Second

To the world’s timekeepers, the leap second is a kludge, a bane, a pain in the little hand. Now they’re proposing to ditch it. Will our days ever be the same?

World War II Shipwreck Leaks Pollutants Into North Sea, Study Finds

European researchers found heavy metals, arsenic and other pollutants near the fishing trawler, which was converted into a patrol boat by Germany in the Second World War.