New software developed at EPFL can help architects to design building structures that incorporate both new and reused components, thereby lo...
AI teachers must be effective and communicate well to be accepted, new study finds
The increase in online education has allowed a new type of teacher to emerge—an artificial one. But just how accepting students are of an ar...
A system to improve a robot's indoor navigation
Over the past decade or so, roboticists developed increasingly sophisticated robotic systems that could help humans to complete a variety of...
Sensing emotions in a crisis
From Twitter to Facebook to Reddit, billions of people around the world use social media daily to connect with friends and family, as well a...
iPhone 12 Pro review: Is it worth paying more for the Pro features?
The iPhone 12 Pro is Apple’s current flagship, offering an even more refined iPhone 12 with a smattering of design and feature improvements....
Predictive model reveals function of promising energy harvester device
A small energy harvesting device that can transform subtle mechanical vibrations into electrical energy could be used to power wireless sens...
Advanced facade material for urban heat island mitigation
A joint research team led by Asst. Prof. Jihui Yuan at the Dept. of Architecture and Civil Eng. of Toyohashi University of Technology, in co...
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope Review
Developer Supermassive Games is back with the eagerly anticipated second installation of The Dark Pictures Anthology, Little Hope. Some ye...
Loon balloon breaks record for stratospheric flight duration—stays aloft for 312 days
Google parent Alphabet has announced that its Loon team has broken the record for the longest stratospheric flight duration, staying aloft f...
Researchers take a stand on algorithm design for job centers: Landing a job isn't always the right goal
Imagine that you are a job consultant. You are sitting across from your client, an unemployed individual. from News on Artificial Intellig...
Australians have low trust in artificial intelligence and want it to be better regulated
Every day we are likely to interact with some form of artificial intelligence (AI). It works behind the scenes in everything from social med...
Pumped hydro isn't our energy future, it's our past
It's now beyond dispute that—for new electricity generation—solar, wind and other forms of renewable energy are cheaper than anything el...
SoundWatch: New smartwatch app alerts d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing users to birdsong, sirens and other desired sounds
Smartwatches offer people a private method for getting notifications about their surroundings—such as a phone call, health alerts or an upco...
Technology could contribute to high-performing wearable and eco-disposable AI electronics
The University of Surrey has unveiled a device with unique functionality that could signal the dawn of a new design philosophy for electroni...
Research lowers errors for using brain signals to control a robot arm
Brain-computer interfaces have seen a large influx of research in an effort to allow precise and accurate control of physical systems. By me...
Artificial intelligence dives into thousands of WWII photographs
In a new international cross disciplinary study, researchers have used artificial intelligence to analyze large amounts of historical photos...
Japan PM says plan to release Fukushima water coming soon
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday that his government is working on the final details of a plan to release massive amoun...
A machine leaning model that incorporates immunological knowledge
The complex network of interconnected cellular signals produced in response to changes in the human body offers a vast amount of interesting...
Soil-powered fuel cell promises cheap, sustainable water purification
Engineers at the University of Bath have shown that it's possible to capture and use energy created by the natural reactions occurring i...
Apple developing smaller AirPods Pro, revamped entry-level model
Apple Inc. is planning updates to its AirPods earbuds next year, seeking to capitalize on the success of a product that has become an import...
Ditch the soundbar with new Amazon Echo speakers
Besides sporting a new round look, Amazon's updated fourth generation Echo speakers have something else going for them. Buy a pair for $...
An attacker can steal sensitive user data over the phone using smart speakers
In recent years, voice assistants such as Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Cortana have become increasingly popular. People in many ...
New system uses floor vibrations to detect building occupants
Thanks to a new system developed at EPFL, building owners can detect the number of occupants and track their movement using sensors installe...
Best way to detect 'deepfake' videos? Check for the pulse
With video editing software becoming increasingly sophisticated, it's sometimes difficult to believe our own eyes. Did that actor really...
Cloud-based framework leads to improved efficiency in disaster-area management
A research team from North Carolina A&T State University has, for the first time, designed a cloud-based autonomous system framework uti...
Promising strategies for durable perovskite solar cells
Perovskite materials are becoming increasingly popular as the active layer in solar cells. Internal forces in these materials cause distorti...
Photovoltaics industry can help meet Paris agreement targets
To meet the Paris Agreement's daunting goal of preventing Earth's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 d...
iPhone 12 Review: Just about the perfect iPhone
With the iPhone 12, Apple has brought many of its ‘Pro’ level features from last year’s iPhone 11 Pro down in price. The iPhone 12 upgrades...
If a robot is conscious, is it OK to turn it off? The moral implications of building true AIs
In the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Measure of a Man," Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, ...
Stressed on the job? An AI teammate may know how to help
Humans have been teaming up with machines throughout history to achieve goals, be it by using simple machines to move materials or complex m...
Gesture recognition technology shrinks to micro size
New resource-efficient gesture recognition can be embedded into smart clothing. Technology developed in collaboration between Aalto Universi...
You can get a 3-D printed studio (yes, a printed apartment) for just over $100K
A tiny California start-up is looking to printers to solve the housing crisis—actually, a very large 3-D printer. from Hi-Tech Innovation ...
Sorry, but you need to upgrade your phone every year now
You may not like what I'm going to say, so let me just spit (type) it out: from Consumer Electronics News - Electronics News, Electron...
From beekeepers to ocean mappers, Lobe aims to make it easy for anyone to train machine learning models
Sean Cusack has been a backyard beekeeper for 10 years and a tinkerer for longer. That's how he and an entomologist friend got talking a...
How to figure out what you don't know
Increasingly, biologists are turning to computational modeling to make sense of complex systems. In neuroscience, researchers are adapting t...
Working to extend battery life in smartphones, electric cars
A University of Central Florida researcher is working to make portable devices and electric vehicles stay charged longer by extending the li...
Powering the future: new insights into how alkali-metal doped flexible solar cells work
"When eco-friendly, inexpensive, versatile, and efficient solar cells are developed, all thermal and nuclear power plants will disappea...
Subscribe to:
Comments
(
Atom
)