Hi Tech & Innovation
A new software system developed by Brown University researchers turns cell phones into augmented reality portals, enabling users to place virtual building blocks, furniture and other objects into real-world backdrops, and ...
Oct 16, 2019
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Computer Sciences
MIT researchers have developed a model that recovers valuable data lost from images and video that have been "collapsed" into lower dimensions.
Oct 16, 2019
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Security
Machines' ability to learn by processing data gleaned from sensors underlies automated vehicles, medical devices and a host of other emerging technologies. But that learning ability leaves systems vulnerable to hackers in ...
Oct 14, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
A branch of machine learning called deep learning has helped computers surpass humans at well-defined visual tasks like reading medical scans, but as the technology expands into interpreting videos and real-world events, ...
Oct 14, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers.
Oct 13, 2019
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Software
You can get image descriptions on Chrome. This is a real boost for blind and low-vision users, so that they can know what is on display.
Oct 11, 2019 weblog
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Security
Hijacking IP addresses is an increasingly popular form of cyber-attack. This is done for a range of reasons, from sending spam and malware to stealing Bitcoin. It's estimated that in 2017 alone, routing incidents such as ...
Oct 09, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Over the past decade or so, advances in machine learning have paved the way for the development of increasingly advanced speech recognition tools. By analyzing audio files of human speech, these tools can learn to identify ...
Oct 07, 2019 feature
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Machine learning & AI
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have devised a machine learning approach to modeling the interactions between complex variables in engineered bacteria that would otherwise be too cumbersome to predict. Their algorithms ...
Oct 03, 2019
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Computer Sciences
A new system developed by researchers at MIT and elsewhere helps networks of smart devices cooperate to find their positions in environments where GPS usually fails.
Oct 03, 2019
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