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Oak Trees Outsmart Caterpillars With a Brilliant Spring Trick

Oak trees fight caterpillars by delaying spring just long enough to leave them hungry. In spring, forests usually burst to life right as insects hatch. Caterpillars, in particular, emerge when fresh ...
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How to make large-scale wood wall art (giant tree design)

DIYer and woodworker April Wilkerson creates large-scale wood wall art featuring a giant tree design.
New York Magazine

The Very Best Cat Trees, According to Cat People

While there are often existing vertical spaces in your home, a cat tree is a good way to provide a dedicated, safe vertical ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models

With AI image generators widely available online and more sophisticated than ever, it’s never been harder to tell if an image is authentic. But on Tuesday, OpenAI announced two new measures to help ...
Marketplace

Cities are investing tax dollars ... on trees. Here's why it works

Ed Hoffman and his wife, Donna, just pulled up to a neighborhood park 15 minutes west of Cleveland. They checked in with a volunteer sitting at one of those plastic fold-out tables and picked out a ...
Ars Technica

Study: AI models that consider users’ feelings are more likely to make errors

In human-to-human communication, the desire to be empathetic or polite often conflicts with the need to be truthful—hence terms like “being brutally honest” for situations where you value the truth ...
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How to make wooden tabletop Christmas trees

DIYer and woodworker April Wilkerson makes wooden tabletop Christmas trees for seasonal decor. California couple found dead after sending money to Tom Selleck impostor Donald Trump unleashes on ...
insider.si.edu

Which Trees Make a Forest Work? Smithsonian Scientists Are Planting Over 33,000 To Find Out

John Parker, SERC senior scientist and co-lead scientist of the Functional Forests Project, plants a sapling in the new restoration experiment. To grow a successful forest, planting trees is not ...
CNBC

Meta's long-awaited AI model is finally here. But can it make money?

Muse Spark, Meta's first major new AI model in over a year, landed this week, the company's biggest effort yet to show value from its massive investment in Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang. Meta's ...
AOL

After an L.A. windstorm, he used fallen trees to make furniture with a story behind it

Architect Chris Peck of Keita Design sits on one of five stools crafted from a eucalyptus tree that fell near Johnson Lake in Pasadena. "There was a ton of splitting and grain movement, which created ...
Los Angeles Times

After an L.A. windstorm, he used fallen trees to make furniture with a story behind it

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. After a 2011 windstorm destroyed over 1,200 Pasadena trees, architect Chris Peck launched Keita Design to ...
PC World

Want to make the most of the new Gemma 4 AI models? RTX GPUs and PCs accelerate local AI like never before

With the launch of Google’s Gemma 4 family of AI models, AI enthusiasts now have access to a new class of small, fast, and omni-capable AI designed for fast and efficient local deployment, and NVIDIA ...