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Beth Mauder/ZDNETA robot that mows the lawn for you sounds like technology straight out of an early 2000s sci-fi movie, but it's very much a real thing today. I've been testing the Husqvarna Automower 430X over the past year, and it still amazes me how every time I have the robot running, my neighbors would be standing out and watching it cut my grass without me lifting a finger.Also: The best zero-turn mowersSometimes, I'll even sit on my front porch, sip some lemonade, and admire the job I'm not doing. When I tell…

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SAN DIEGO —  Rachel Nafis, waist-deep in corncockles, cut the blush-colored flowers growing in her neighbor’s yard as her eyes wandered to the front door. “I hope Tom comes outside to say hello,” she said as she placed the cut stems in a bucket of water. Soon, a smile crept across her face as Tom Weaver opened the door and wheeled himself onto the porch.“It’s so wonderful to see flowers growing outside my window,” he said from his wheelchair. “I love seeing them. They smell so good.” Rows of dahlias…

Charlene Willey checked her smartwatch as a sudden rumble enveloped her Westminster home less than half a mile from the runway’s end at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. “That was 70 decibels inside with the doors shut,” she said, sitting at her kitchen table as the sound — nearly the equivalent of that made by a vacuum cleaner — faded as fast as it came. “That was a piston engine.” Over the next 90 minutes, no fewer than seven airplanes roared over her roof in the Green Knolls neighborhood just east of Wadsworth…

In 2002, 16% of homebuyers identified their new homes by attending an open house. The National Association of Realtors 2022 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers report shows that two decades later that number plummeted to 4%. The coronavirus pandemic further solidified the declining popularity of open houses as more buyers turn to online searches to find their dream homes. Data from the report states only 5% of buyers frequently use open houses, while 23% occasionally do and 72% rarely do. Furthermore, when asked if an open…

On this list are various groups of people. Please select any that you would not like to have as neighbors (% who mention group). Credit: Love thy neighbour? Public trust and acceptance of the people who live alongside us (2023) The UK now has some of the highest levels of neighborhood trust internationally, while Britons have also become much more comfortable with having neighbors who belong to historically marginalized…

As with communities up and town the California coast, Oprah Winfrey’s hometown of Montecito faced the possibility of devastating floods during this past winter’s heavy rains. But the media mogul’s apparent effort to prevent flooding from a creek that runs along her Montecito estate has irked neighbors and and raised concerns among Santa Barbara County officials over whether the construction of a boulder wall was properly permitted, according to Santa Barbara County news site Noozhawk. They don’t know if the wall, built…

Beth Mauder/ZDNETA robot that mows the lawn for you sounds like technology straight out of an early 2000s sci-fi movie, but it's very much a real thing today. I've been testing the Husqvarna Automower 430XZDNET RECOMMENDS Husqvarna Automower 430X The Husqvarna Automower 430X is a quiet, versatile, boundary-wire guided auto mower that can tackle up to 0.8 acres. To start, my family lives on an acre of land that is mostly flat but has an incline in one spot, so the 430X's ability to handle 0.8 acres and slopes up to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Marking April as Arab American Heritage Month—a time to learn about the history, culture and contributions of our nearly 4 million strong community—is gaining traction across the country. In 2022, Joe Biden made history as the first U.S. president to recognize the month, which he did again in 2023.…

Visual Understanding of the Models and the Impacts of HyperparametersK Nearest Neighbors or KNN is one of the most simple models in machine learning. In fact, to some extent, there is no model, because, for the prediction of a new observation, it will use the entirety of the training dataset to find the “nearest neighbors” according to a distance (usually the euclidean distance). And then in the case of a regression task, the prediction value is calculated by averaging the target variable values of these neighbors.Since…