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App that will extend your smartphone battery life

New research out of the University of Waterloo has found a novel method to extend the battery life of smartphones for up to an hour each day.

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Aug 15, 2018
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OpenAI Five wins a best-of-three, looks to International next

What can happen if computer-controlled bots go up against a team of top human players? The formidable playing team of OpenAI Five managed to defeat human teams at Dota 2 recently, and made a lot of news doing so.

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Aug 07, 2018
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Startup pushing software system for changing health behaviors

A Minneapolis-based startup company said it has raised $12 million to complete work on a technology platform that's meant to help patients and their clinicians find the best strategies for changing unhealthy behaviors.

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Aug 01, 2018
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Google Contact Center AI could lighten load of pressures and problems

Having to deal with automated assistance during call center exchanges is not fun. How is that for an understatement. We tried to dive as gently as we could.

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Jul 29, 2018
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Britannica Insights will help searchers cut through noise for good answers

The next time your niece asks you where 18 things come from, you may not need to worry over the quality of your answer that was snatched from a quick keyboard tap. Not if you download an extension. A regarded information ...

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Jun 11, 2018
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Hey Alexa: Amazon's virtual assistant becomes a personal assistant to software developers

UBC computer scientists have turned Amazon Alexa into a tool for software engineers, tasking the virtual assistant to take care of mundane programming tasks, helping increase productivity and speed up workflow.

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May 24, 2018
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First-of-its-kind software quickly automates sports analytics

New software designed by Rice University students working in the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen and Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie) can provide automated sports analytics in an hour.

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May 04, 2018
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Researchers develop an app for crowdsourced exercise plans, which rival personal trainers in effectiveness

Exercise can prevent chronic disease, boost mental health and elevate quality of life. But exercise can also be an expensive undertaking—especially for newcomers.

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May 02, 2018
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Bento browser makes it easier to search on mobile devices

Searches involving multiple websites can quickly get confusing, particularly when performed on a mobile device with a small screen. A new web browser developed at Carnegie Mellon University now brings order to complex searches ...

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Apr 25, 2018
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Engineers create social media infrastructure for emergency management

Purdue researchers have developed an online platform that enables first responders to monitor emergency situations using tweets and Instagram posts.

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Apr 24, 2018
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JavaScript for beginners: Grasshopper can teach coding

If you are new at coding and don't want to rearrange your life as a result—changing work hours, spending wads on formal courses—you may want to know about Grasshopper, a new way you can learn to write code on your phone.

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Apr 23, 2018
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XiaoIce: When a chatbot chat moves up to human-sounding flow

Do this, do that. Talking with voice assistants is not like talking to humans and, as helpful as it is to be near the technology, we know the difference. A surprising turn has materialized, however, and it is in the form ...

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Apr 07, 2018
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Firefox Reality beckons our browser future

In theory, what a concept. Augmented reality and virtual reality experiences right here right now.

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Apr 06, 2018
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Smartphone 'scores' can help doctors track severity of Parkinson's disease symptoms

Parkinson's disease, a progressive brain disorder, is often tough to treat effectively because symptoms, such as tremors and walking difficulties, can vary dramatically over a period of days, or even hours.

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Apr 06, 2018
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Software automatically generates knitting instructions for 3-D shapes

Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have developed a system that can translate a wide variety of 3-D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that enable a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically ...

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Mar 29, 2018
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Teaching chatbots how to do the right thing

In this age of information —and misinformation —advancements in technology are challenging us to rethink how language works.

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Mar 29, 2018
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Cortana Show Me focuses on help with settings

Cortana had her day in the spotlight this month with the announcement of a new Windows 10 preview with Cortana Show Me. This is not the final build, however, but people are talking about the Cortana preview anyway as a good ...

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Mar 26, 2018
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IBM has launched Watson Assistant

IBM has officially unveiled its Watson Assistant, a voice recognition and assistant system meant to serve as the back end of customized customer front-end systems. IBM announced at its annual Think conference that Watson ...

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Mar 21, 2018
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Chinese to English translating: Not human, but exceptional

Microsoft announced Wednesday that its labs have developed an AI machine translation system that can translate from Chinese to English with the same accuracy as can a human. The researchers are at Asia and U.S. labs of Microsoft.

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Mar 15, 2018
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Software aims to reduce food waste by helping those in need

Sugam Sharma remembers as a child listening to his parents talk about hunger. While his family always had enough to eat, hunger was prevalent and something he regularly witnessed growing up and as a young adult in India.

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Mar 07, 2018
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Much ado about words as two Shakespeare sleuths spot old manuscript

Will the real William Shakespeare please stand up? Massive numbers of academic papers have focused through the decades on questions of where and when the bard lifted from other works and how much was from his own head.

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Feb 13, 2018
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Virtual reality chatroom app could boost VR industry

During the first month of 2018, an app called VRChat shot from 4,000 installs to more than two million.

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Feb 06, 2018
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Microsoft Garage project Ink to Code works on sketched ideas

At the very time of this writing, someone somewhere on a plane, train or bar stool will be excited over some drawing or words scribbled on a napkin which he and his companion are moving around to describe the next big idea—what ...

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Jan 28, 2018
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Growing up with coding may start with Google Doodle

(Tech Xplore)—The 50th anniversary of children learning how to code was celebrated by Google in a very Google fashion: A new home-page Doodle turned out to be an interactive game for children.

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Dec 05, 2017
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Mozilla releases transcription model and huge voice dataset

(Tech Xplore)—Mozilla (maker of the Firefox browser) has announced the release of an open source speech recognition model along with a large voice dataset. The release marks the advent of open source speech recognition ...

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Nov 30, 2017
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