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Protected bike lanes, not painted lanes, lift NYC bikeshare ridership, analysis shows

Protected bike lanes, not painted lanes, lift NYC bikeshare ridership, analysis shows Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Protected bike lanes increase Citi Bike ridership in New York City, but painted bike lanes and sharrows do not show a statistically significant causal effect on ridership after accounting for confounding factors, according to a new study from researchers at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering published this week in npj Sustainable Mobility and...

Water-wave tweezers steer tiny 'surfers' without touching them

Water-wave tweezers steer tiny 'surfers' without touching them Stephanie Baum Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Summer brings with it the sight of surfers moving seamlessly across wave crests, with ocean waters carrying them along coastlines. A team of scientists has now created a similar phenomenon—with small objects rather than surfers—that can be controlled by humans rather than by nature. Through a series of experiments on a replicated mini-beach, NYU researchers show how...

To die with dignity: my young husband’s final wish came with a $65,000 price tag

My husband, Craig, didn’t want to spend his last days in the hospital. His fight with bladder cancer then became a battle to get him hospice care at home“This isn’t where I want to die,” my husband, Craig, whispered to me. We were in a shared room on the top floor of NYU Langone hospital in Manhattan, the window obscured by a long privacy curtain.

Unsupervised Learning Based Focal Stack Camera Depth Estimation

Electrical Engineering and Systems Science > Image and Video Processing [Submitted on 14 Mar 2022 (v1), last revised 3 Jun 2026 (this version, v3)] Title:Unsupervised Learning Based Focal Stack Camera Depth Estimation View PDFAbstract:We propose an unsupervised deep learning based method to estimate depth from focal stack camera images. On the NYU-v2 dataset, our method achieves much better depth estimation accuracy compared to single-image based methods.

To die with dignity: my young husband’s final wish came with a $65,000 price tag

My husband, Craig, didn’t want to spend his last days in the hospital. His fight with bladder cancer then became a battle to get him hospice care at home“This isn’t where I want to die,” my husband, Craig, whispered to me. We were in a shared room on the top floor of NYU Langone hospital in Manhattan, the window obscured by a long privacy curtain.

I Think, Therefore I Am Getting Paid by an AI Company

Philosophy has long suffered an unfortunate reputation as pedantic and abstruse. In one of the most prominent debates of the 20th century, philosophers spent a great deal of energy arguing over what the means. Paul Graham, the legendary tech investor, studied philosophy as a college student, which seemed “an impressively impractical thing to do,” as he later wrote.

Certain tortillas are now being marketed as ‘GLP-1 friendly.’ What does that even mean?

Certain tortillas are now being marketed as ‘GLP-1 friendly.’ What does that even mean? While a ‘GLP-1 friendly’ label may seem arbitrary, some medical experts say it may make people pay closer attention to what they’re eating - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Food manufacturers are trying to cash in on the popularity of weight-loss medications such as Ozempic and Mounjaro, with a growing number of easy, grab-and-go meals and snacks being sold as “GLP-1 friendly.”

How Sean Baker went from high school AV guy to Oscar-winning director

After scooping the Oscars for Anora, Sean Baker brings his filmmaking tips to Sydney's Vivid Festival Thu 4 Jun 2026 at 4:30am Growing up in New Jersey before the internet and multiplexes branched into art-house films, Anora filmmaker Sean Baker got his first taste of cinema like any American kid living in the suburbs. "It was Spielberg and Lucas — mainstream Hollywood fair," Baker tells ABC Arts. Mainlining magazines like Premier, Famous Monsters and Fangoria in his bedroom, Baker regularly...

America Has a Pangram Problem

Basically every recent, high-profile accusation of someone passing off AI-generated writing as their own has started in the same way: with a tool called Pangram. In March, when a horror novel from a major publishing house was pulled just days before its scheduled U.S. release date, it was in part because Pangram, an AI-detection program, had identified the text as AI-generated. Other people have fed text into Pangram to suggest that chatbots have been used to write articles in major...