Machine learning & AI
A team of researchers at UC Santa Cruz have recently developed a new machine learning approach to characterize happiness, called CruzAffect. Their approach, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, can be applied to different ...
Mar 06, 2019 feature
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Internet
Researchers at Northwestern University, McGill University, and the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur have recently developed a character level convolutional neural network (CNN) model that could help to detect abusive ...
Oct 03, 2018 feature
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Computer Sciences
Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a new method for coded caching that could improve the delivery of popular video content online. A research paper outlining their findings was pre-published on arXiv, outlining ...
Aug 28, 2018 feature
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Software
Researchers at UC Davis have recently developed a new machine learning based tool to verify multimedia rumors online. Their paper, pre-published on arXiv, proposes cross-lingual and cross-platform features for rumor verification, ...
Aug 24, 2018 feature
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Computer Sciences
We've all experienced two hugely frustrating things on YouTube: our video either suddenly gets pixelated, or it stops entirely to rebuffer.
Aug 14, 2017
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Computer Sciences
University of Washington researchers have shown that Google's new tool that uses machine learning to automatically analyze and label video content can be deceived by inserting a photograph periodically and at a very low rate ...
Apr 03, 2017
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Consumer & Gadgets
(Phys.org) —In past years, the television was less fondly called the idiot box. Today the TV is more fondly being promoted as a potential informationalized box, signified by technology offered by a new device appearing ...
Mar 08, 2014 weblog
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Telecom
In an era when the average U.S. household has five internet-connected devices, web surfers may often feel like they're always fighting over scraps of WiFi. How can a whole family all binge their favorite shows without somebody's ...
Aug 19, 2019
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Internet
Facebook has paid hundreds of contractors to listen to and transcribe snippets of users' conversations, US media reported on Tuesday, amid heightened scrutiny of the social network's data collection practices.
Aug 14, 2019
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Software
The knock-down, drag-out battle in the video game world heads to the cloud as the premier industry event looks to adapt to a consumer shift to streaming services.
Jun 08, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
"Terabyte hard drives were only for, like, space stations," said Senior Editor for Geek.com, Jordan Minor, recalling when he was kid and thought that "a terabyte was such a huge, incalculable amount of space that surely no ...
Jan 14, 2019 weblog
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Computer Sciences
(Tech Xplore)—"Wow. Pass me a tissue. That was a great story. Oscar worthy. Who wrote the script? What?"
Dec 17, 2017 weblog
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Computer Sciences
(Tech Xplore)—One of the headaches researchers have in training computers is trying to understand what a human really means to say when the person is using sarcasm and irony. (Terrific, train is stuck. Shocking news, our ...
Aug 08, 2017 weblog
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Security
A study of 20 major cloud hosting services has found that as many as 10 percent of the repositories hosted by them had been compromised - with several hundred of the "buckets" actively providing malware. Such bad content ...
Oct 18, 2016
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Engineering
"Hey Goosilexa, can I go swimming?" Today, we receive synthetically spoken answers to questions aimed at helping to make our decisions easier. Increasingly, voice-based services infiltrate everyday lives. Major hardware and ...
Oct 08, 2019
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