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Small Chinese County Reverses Desertification with Arduous Tree-Planting Method Across 240,000 Acres https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/small-chinese-county-reverses-desertification-with-arduous-tree-planting-method-…

Small Chinese County Reverses Desertification with Arduous Tree-Planting Method Across 240,000 Acres
"In my childhood, we had to cover our bowls while eating, otherwise they would be filled with sand," Wang told China Daily. 

On Moving My Parents Across the Country https://muz4now.com/2021/on-moving-my-parents-across-the-country/

On Moving My Parents Across the Country
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

🪇 Agricultural sensor detects crops by their vibrations, offering an alternative approach for farm robots
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-agricultural-sensor-crops-vibrations-alternative.html

Agricultural sensor detects crops by their vibrations, offering an alternative approach for farm robots
Farmers might be able to get help tending and harvesting crops using a new sensing technology from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI). Researchers have invented a tool called SonicBoom that can find crops like apples based on the sound they make. The novel technology, still in the early stages of development, may someday be used by farm robots for tasks like pruning vines or locating ripe apples hidden among the leaves.

AgriEval: A Comprehensive Chinese Agricultural Benchmark for Large Language Models
Lian Yan, Haotian Wang, Chen Tang, Haifeng Liu, Tianyang Sun, Liangliang Liu, Yi Guan, Jingchi Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21773

AgriEval: A Comprehensive Chinese Agricultural Benchmark for Large Language Models
In the agricultural domain, the deployment of large language models (LLMs) is hindered by the lack of training data and evaluation benchmarks. To mitigate this issue, we propose AgriEval, the first comprehensive Chinese agricultural benchmark with three main characteristics: (1) Comprehensive Capability Evaluation. AgriEval covers six major agriculture categories and 29 subcategories within agriculture, addressing four core cognitive scenarios: memorization, understanding, inference, and genera…

US-Wahlkämpfer fürchten Apples "aggressiven" Messaging-Filter in iOS 26
Nachrichten unbekannter Sender blendet iOS 26 wahlweise aus. Ein Wahlkampfkomitee der Republikaner warnt, dadurch könnten Spenden massiv einbrechen.

NFL analyst still doubts Cowboys despite aggressive offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/nfl-analyst-still-doubts-dallas-cowboys-despite-aggressive-nfl-offseason

Israeli customer service automation company Nice acquires Cognigy, which develops a conversational and agentic AI platform, for $955M, set to close in Q4 2025 (Shiri Habib-Valdhorn/Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-nice-acquires-ai-co-cognigy-…

Nice acquires AI co Cognigy for $955m
The acquisition combines Nice's purpose built customer service AI platform with Cognigy's conversational and agentic platform, which will enable organizations to accelerate AI adoption in customer experience.

Pelissero: Packers trade with Cowboys for DE Micah Parsons 'sent shockwaves across the NFL' https://www.nfl.com/videos/pelissero-packers-trade-with-cowboys-for-de-micah-parsons-sent-shockwaves-across-the-nfl-gmfb