Consumer & Gadgets
OrCam Technologies at this year's CES made a name for itself as solutions bearer for wearable assistive technology. They have developed wearable aides for hearing and for reading. These make use of computer vision and machine ...
Internet
Say, "Hey Google" to your Android phone, and you'll be able to do more with your apps.
Oct 9, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
In order for Google Assistant to really help users with daily tasks, the tool should be able to understand the human user. This means not only understanding the words you speak but also recognizing the meaning behind them. ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are tapping into advances in artificial intelligence to develop a new kind of walking stick for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Jan 19, 2023
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Robotics
When we pick something up, we'll often jostle it around a bit, searching to get the best grip. A team of researchers have now developed a robotic hand that does something similar—a breakthrough that could advance the field ...
Mar 3, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Amazon's Alexa might soon replicate the voice of family members—even if they're dead.
Jun 23, 2022
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Engineering
Carnegie Mellon mechanical engineering researchers have developed a new scalable and reproducible manufacturing technique that could accelerate the mainstream adoption and commercialization of soft and stretchable electronics.
Aug 30, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Voice assistants such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri have tremendous potential to help people manage their health as they age. Using these eye- and hands-free tools, patients could make appointments, confer with clinicians, ...
Nov 4, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Is the way we bark out orders to digital assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant making us less polite? Prompted by growing concerns, two Brigham Young University information systems researchers decided to ask.
Aug 15, 2019
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Security
Guenevere Chen, an associate professor in the UTSA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently published a paper on USENIX Security 2023 that demonstrates a novel inaudible voice trojan attack to exploit vulnerabilities ...
Mar 23, 2023
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