Computer Sciences
Most of us benefit every day from the fact computers can now "understand" us when we speak or write. Yet few of us have paused to consider the potentially damaging ways this same technology may be shaping our culture.
Jun 1, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Using the visual cortex as a model in the human brain, the research group led by ERC-award-winner Thomas Pock has developed new mathematical models and algorithms as the basis for faster and more intelligent image processing ...
Jun 1, 2021
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Robotics
Reflexes protect our bodies—for example when we pull our hand back from a hot stove. These protective mechanisms could also be useful for robots. In this interview, Prof. Sami Haddadin and Johannes Kühn of the Munich School ...
May 5, 2021
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Automotive
Countless people die every year in road accidents. To improve the safety of vehicle occupants, it has been customary for decades to carry out crash-tests using dummies. These crash-test dummies are increasingly getting virtual ...
May 2, 2019
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Computer Sciences
We have a tendency to consider ourselves unique and unpredictable, but digital games research shows that this is far from the case. In fact, we can be categorised into groups of people who show the same behaviours, and what ...
Aug 22, 2017
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Internet
The United Nations chief on Monday launched global principles to combat online hate and lies and demanded that big tech companies use their power to reduce the harm they are doing to people and societies around the world.
Jun 25, 2024
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Business
London-based model Alexsandrah has a twin, but not in the way you'd expect: Her counterpart is made of pixels instead of flesh and blood.
Apr 15, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Scientists from Salk Institute (U.S.), Skoltech (Russia), and the Riken Center for Brain Science (Japan) investigated a theoretical model of how populations of neurons in the visual cortex of the brain may recognize and process ...
Mar 2, 2020
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Robotics
Underestimate robots at your peril.
Sep 11, 2019
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