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Browse a 3D map of the world’s 2.75 billion buildings
GlobalBuildingAtlas is based on data collected up to 2019. Credit: Earth System Science Data
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.Researchers in Germany recently accomplished a truly audacious feat of cartography. Using a diverse array of datasets, a team at the Technical University of Munich released GlobalBuildingAtlas, the first high-resolution mapping model featuring every structure in the world at a given point in time.
However, the open-source project isn’t about bragging rights. With over 2.75 billion buildings detailed in the map, the endeavor will help create accurate analyses of urban structures, volume calculations, and infrastructure planning around the planet.
“3D building information provides a much more accurate picture of urbanization and poverty than traditional 2D maps,” research lead Xiaoxiang Zhu said in a statement. “With 3D models, we see not...
Montreal hosts G7 ministers to talk about artificial intelligence, quantum computing
OTTAWA — Artificial intelligence is likely to take up much of the agenda as industry, digital and technology ministers from the world’s most powerful Western countries meet in Montreal this week.
OTTAWA — Artificial intelligence is likely to take up much of the agenda as industry, digital and technology ministers from the world’s most powerful Western countries meet in Montreal this week.
The two-day event is part of a series of ministerial meetings being held as Canada holds the presidency of the G7 group of nations this year.
Prime Minister Mark Carney hosted the G7 leaders’ summit in June, welcoming leaders from the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, along with the European Union, to Kananaskis, Alta.
"The decisions that we'll make here together will shape the...
‘Grow up’: Rudd goes after Tenacious D for a Trump joke. It’s 2024, baby!
Politics tamfitronics In hindsight, it was inevitable — Tenacious D, the band that gave us such explosively polemic lyrics as “Fligugigugeee”, the pioneers of “inward singing“, has finally pushed its radical message too far. At a show in Sydney, Kyle Gass, one half of the veteran stoner-comedy rock duo with actor Jack Black, made a tasteless offhand joke that his birthday wish was that someone makes an assassination attempt on Donald Trump that doesn’t miss.Ralph Babet, United Australia Party’s senator for posting on social media, was first to leap into action, demanding the band be deported: I call on the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to join me in denouncing Tenacious D, Jack Black and band member Kyle Gass, and I call on the Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to revoke their visas and deport them immediately.This...
