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🌳 AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data
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AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data
Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more difficult. But now a team from Purdue University's Department of Computer Science and Institute for Digital Forestry and Germany's Kiel University has introduced a new AI method for isolating and reconstructing forest trees that they call TreeStructor.

Pinterest: Hunderte Entlassungen sollen Ressourcen für KI freisetzen
Pinterest plant, bis zu fünfzehn Prozent der Belegschaft zu entlassen. Das soll mehr Ressourcen für die Entwicklung von KI-Funktionen und -Produkten freisetzen.

Atlas Obscura reports $18.3M in revenue in 2025 and a $2.6M profit, the first annual profit in its 16-year history, in the first year under CEO Louise Story (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/atlas-obscura-first-annual-profit/

Atlas Obscura Turns First Annual Profit in 16-Year History
The travel publisher, in its first year under CEO Louise Story, has trimmed and optimized its way into the black.

Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/blue

Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands | TechCrunch
Bluesky's first transparency reports tackle moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns, and more. The number of government legal requests went up fivefold.

Cambridge, Massachusetts Becomes First City in State to Endorse Plant Based Treaty https://vegconomist.com/society/charity-campaigns/cambridge-massachusetts-becomes-first-city-in-state-to-endorse-plant-based-treat…

Cambridge, Massachusetts Becomes First City in State to Endorse Plant Based Treaty - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Cambridge City Council has voted unanimously to endorse the Plant Based Treaty, becoming the first city in Massachusetts and the sixth in the United States to

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First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued.
https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/04/first-debris-pieces-from-indian-asat.html
saved 2019-04-24

First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued
classified military Space (spy satellites) and Missiles

The First Triple Radio Active Galactic Nucleus in an Ongoing Galaxy Merger: #AGN / Radio Black Hole Trio Lights Up in Rare Galaxy Merger: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/555300/unique-discovery-astronomers-identify-first-triple-radio-agn / https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-black-hole-trio-lights-up-in-rare-galaxy-merger/ - first confirmed system of three radio-bright active galactic nuclei reveals how supermassive black holes grow as galaxies collide.

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/mekong-sand-mining-risks-collapse-of-se-asias-largest-freshwater-lake-study-finds/

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds
Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s annual wet season flood pulse that feeds water into Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake has been dwindling year by year. Experts have long pointed to upstream hydropower dams in China […]

Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/blue

Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands | TechCrunch
Bluesky's first transparency reports tackle moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns, and more. The number of government legal requests went up fivefold.

‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/28/brazil-first-arid-zone-stark-warning-for-country