Hardware
The sense of touch is important for human development, interpersonal communication, and social attachment. For situations where one is separated by distance affective haptic devices (AHDs) can be used as a new form of sense ...
May 13, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Users typically react to social media outages with angry tirades and barbed jokes. But researchers suggest that this lack of social media access offers a glimpse into the importance of social media not just as a tool to socialize ...
May 4, 2022
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Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly based on machine learning models, trained using large datasets. Likewise, human-computer interaction is increasingly dependent on speech communication, mainly due to the remarkable ...
Jan 6, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Modern portable devices are the result of great progress in miniaturization and wireless communications. Now that these devices can be made even smaller and lighter without loss of functionality, it's likely that a great ...
Aug 5, 2021
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Robotics
Robopets are artificially intelligent machines created to look like an animal (usually a cat or dog, but they can be any animal). There are numerous robopets on the market right now, being sold to consumers as "pets" or companions. ...
Jul 19, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Words categorize the semantic fields they refer to in ways that maximize communication accuracy while minimizing complexity. Recent studies have shown that human languages are optimally balanced between accuracy and complexity. ...
Apr 15, 2021
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Business
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have given $150 million to a research institute to establish a "new era of biology" aimed at battling diseases with a mix of data and life science studies.
Mar 25, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers from the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) of the University of Valencia and the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have shown that convolutional ...
Oct 19, 2020
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Software
McGill researchers are turning to video games to harness the power of citizen scientists in order to map the gut microbiome.
Apr 8, 2020
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Robotics
Daily life during a pandemic means social distancing and finding new ways to remotely connect with friends, family and co-workers. And as we communicate online and by text, artificial intelligence could play a role in keeping ...
Mar 31, 2020
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