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New Low Light Camera Tech Will Improve AR Apps, Facial Recognition in Smartphones
Researchers in Israel have developed new imaging software that could help improve facial recognition systems and augmented reality apps on smartphones.
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Baidu's New AI Can Mimic Your Voice After Listening to It for Just One Minute
Researchers at Chinese search giant Baidu say they have developed an artificial intelligence that can learn to precisely mimic a person's voice.
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Hail Technology: Deep Learning May Help Predict When People Need Rides
Researchers have found computers may be better at forecasting demand for taxi and ride-sharing services.
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Chimpanzees Help Researchers Improve Machine Learning of Animal Simulations
New computer models of chimpanzees are improving understanding of their walking dynamics.
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Supercomputing nder a New Lens: A Sandia-Developed Benchmark Re-Ranks Top Computers
Sandia National Laboratories' High-Performance Conjugate Gradients benchmarking software program is gaining prominence as a tool for ranking supercomputer performance...
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Chemists Test Computer-Planned Syntheses for the First Time
Chemists have tested a computer program's ability to plan complete syntheses without human intervention.
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JILA Team Invents New Way to 'See' the Quantum World
A new imaging technique produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock as visual art.
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Virtual Reality Prepares Business Students for Digital Leadership
The ESMT Berlin business school is using virtual reality to teach leadership in a digital world to executives from some of Germany’s biggest companies.
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Jumping Spiders and Flying Bees: The Rise of Bio-Inspired Microrobots
University of Manchester researchers are developing jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees.
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Finding the Needle in a Digital Haystack
Researchers are studying how to teach computers to define "normal" data, and then have them detect anomalies.
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Machine Learning Could Improve How Doctors Diagnose Heart Attacks
Researchers say they have used machine learning to teach computers to read cardiac electrical signals and interpret electrocardiograms with greater accuracy.
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HKST Researchers Develop First Innovative Fusion-Based Location Sensing Technology
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology researchers have developed a new fusion-based technology to support smart city projects.
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Has Dopamine Got s Hooked on Tech?
In an unprecedented attack of candour, Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to...
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Encrypted Smartphones Secure Your Identity, Not Just Your Data
Making phones easier to unlock potentially weakens this key element of securing people's online identities.
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Basic Password Guidance Can Dramatically Improve Account Security, Study Shows
Researchers have found that technology users who receive basic password guidance are up to 40% more likely to make their password choices more secure.
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A New Data Trove Could Teach Computers to Tell Blind People What They Need to Know
Researchers are publishing a database of images and challenging the machine-vision community to use it to train machines as effective assistants for those with...
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Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to ltralow-Power Chips
Semiconductor companies are investigating ferroelectrics.
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Paul Allen Wants to Teach Machines Common Sense
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will pour another $125 million into the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence to fund a project to teach computers common...
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GitHub Hit With the Largest DDoS Attack Ever Seen
Distributed Denial of Service attackers have found a new way of magnifying their attacks, with experts warning that bigger attacks are likely.
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