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Automotive
Ford announces infotainment screens to show ads from local billboards
The Ford Motor Company has announced the passing of a patent for a new program that will draw information from the billboard ads surrounding the area where a Ford-manufactured car is driving and display segments of that data ...
May 14, 2021
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Software
Two-in-one: Wide-angle monitoring meets high-resolution capture in new camera platform
If you're a fan of spy movies, you've probably come across scenes where the intelligence agents try to identify or detect a perpetrator using some sophisticated image enhancement technology on surveillance camera images. ...
May 14, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Researchers use deep learning to 'denoise' nanopore data
Scientists from the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research at Osaka University have used machine-learning methods to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio in data collected when tiny spheres are passed through microscopic ...
May 14, 2021
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Software
Improving touch screens with AI
ETH Computer scientists have developed a new AI solution that enables touchscreens to sense with eight times higher resolution than current devices. Thanks to AI, their solution can infer much more precisely where fingers ...
May 14, 2021
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Robotics
Engineering
Breakthrough in reverse osmosis may lead to most energy-efficient seawater desalination ever
Making fresh water out of seawater usually requires huge amounts of energy. The most widespread process for desalination is called reverse osmosis, which works by flowing seawater over a membrane at high pressure to remove ...
May 13, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Newly discovered Wi-Fi vulnerabilities called FragAttacks place all mobile devices at risk
Fragmentation and aggregation attacks—or frag attacks—refer to a series of design flaws and programming security vulnerabilities affecting Wi-Fi devices. Recent studies have shown that any attacker within radio range ...
May 13, 2021 report
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Computer Sciences
Making AI algorithms show their work
Artificial intelligence (AI) learning machines can be trained to solve problems and puzzles on their own instead of using rules that we made for them. But often, researchers do not know what rules the machines make for themselves. ...
May 13, 2021
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Robotics
A highly dexterous robot hand with a caging mechanism
A team of researchers at Yale University's Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, has developed a robot hand that employs a caging mechanism. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, ...
May 13, 2021 report
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Telecom
Laser communications: Empowering more data than ever before
Launching this summer, NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will showcase the dynamic powers of laser communications technologies. With NASA's ever-increasing human and robotic presence in space, missions ...
May 13, 2021
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Security
How AIs ask for personal information is important for gaining user trust
People may be reluctant to give their personal information to artificial intelligence (AI) systems even though it is needed by the systems for providing more accurate and personalized services, but a new study reveals that ...
May 13, 2021
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Automotive
Congestion pricing could shrink car size
Rush hour will likely return when pandemic lockdowns lift, but a new study suggests that congestion pricing—policies that charge tolls for driving during peak hours—could not only cure traffic jams but also convince motorists ...
May 13, 2021
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Computer Sciences
CaSiNo: A collection of campsite-based dialogs to develop automatic negotiation systems
Artificial agents that negotiate with humans could have a broad range of valuable applications, for instance, helping humans to improve their negotiation skills in a variety of fields. To enhance the development of these ...
May 12, 2021 feature
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