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Turning a single photo into a video
Sometimes photos cannot truly capture a scene. How much more epic would that vacation photo of Niagara Falls be if the water were moving?
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Engineering
Creating 'digital twins' at scale to improve drone deliveries
Picture this: A delivery drone suffers some minor wing damage on its flight. Should it land immediately, carry on as usual, or reroute to a new destination? A digital twin, a computer model of the drone that has been flying ...
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Computer Sciences
A bio-inspired technique to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in binarized neural networks
Deep neural networks have achieved highly promising results on several tasks, including image and text classification. Nonetheless, many of these computational methods are prone to what is known as catastrophic forgetting, ...
Jun 10, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Facebook to launch NetHack Challenge at NeurIPS 2021
Historically, significant progress in the area of reinforcement learning (RL) has resulted from simulation environments in games such as Dota 2, Minecraft and StarCraft II. Unfortunately, these developments came with a taxing ...
Jun 10, 2021
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Robotics
Training robots to manipulate soft and deformable objects
Robots can solve a Rubik's cube and navigate the rugged terrain of Mars, but they struggle with simple tasks like rolling out a piece of dough or handling a pair of chopsticks. Even with mountains of data, clear instructions, ...
Jun 10, 2021
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Software
Modeling the mysteries of the universe, from dark matter to COVID-19
At first glance, astrophysics may not seem to have much in common with tracking and predicting the spread of a global virus. But to Professor Niayesh Afshordi, the link was clear—even early last year as our collective reaction ...
Jun 10, 2021
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Robotics
A social robot that could help children to regulate their emotions
In recent years, roboticists have developed a broad variety of social robots, robots designed to communicate with humans, assist them and support them in several different ways. This includes robotic toys and other robots ...
Jun 09, 2021 feature
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Computer Sciences
Faster holographic imaging using recurrent neural networks
Digital holographic imaging is a commonly used microscopy technique in biomedical imaging. It reveals rich optical information of the sample, which could be used, for example, to detect pathological abnormalities in tissue ...
Jun 08, 2021
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Business
New study: Developers' skills and top management commitment lead to Agile project success
Around the globe, software-intensive organizations shift from plan-based development processes to Agile ones, intending to focus more on team interaction, better products, customers' needs, and readiness to change.
Jun 08, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Computers can now predict our preferences directly from our brain
A research team from the University of Copenhagen and University of Helsinki demonstrates it is possible to predict individual preferences based on how a person's brain responses match up to others. This could potentially ...
Jun 07, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Improved method for generating synthetic data solves major privacy issues in research
A lack of data is a major bottleneck for many kinds of research, and especially for the development of better medical treatments and drugs. This data is extremely sensitive and, understandably, people and companies alike ...
Jun 07, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Let's talk about the elephant in the data
You would not be surprised to see an elephant in the savanna or a plate in your kitchen. Based on your prior experiences and knowledge, you know that is where elephants and plates are often to be found. If you saw a mysterious ...
Jun 03, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Text2App: A framework that creates Android apps from text descriptions
Researchers at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and University of California- Los Angeles (UCLA) recently developed a framework that can create Android applications from text descriptions. This new ...
Jun 02, 2021 feature
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Internet
Mass scale manipulation of Twitter Trends discovered
New EPFL research has found that almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake, a scale of manipulation previously unheard of. It also proves for the first time that many trends are created solely by bots ...
Jun 02, 2021
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