Computer Sciences
Modern farming has evolved by adopting technical advances such as machines for ploughing and harvesting, controlled irrigation, fertilisers, pesticides, crop breeding and genetics research. These have helped farmers to produce ...
Jan 28, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
What do a T-shirt, a rug, and a soda bottle have in common? Many are made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a ubiquitous plastic that revolutionized the materials industry after it was patented in the 1940s.
Dec 22, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
What goes into making plants taste good? For scientists in MIT's Media Lab, it takes a combination of botany, machine-learning algorithms, and some good old-fashioned chemistry.
Apr 3, 2019
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Engineering
A team of researchers in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science aims to enable health care and extended reality—which encompasses virtual, augmented and mixed reality—with their smart sensing ...
Jun 1, 2023
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Computer Sciences
A research team from the University of Copenhagen and University of Helsinki demonstrates it is possible to predict individual preferences based on how a person's brain responses match up to others. This could potentially ...
Jun 7, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Identifying the correct answer to a question often entails gathering large amounts of information and understanding complex ideas. In a recent study, a team of researchers at New York University (NYU) and Facebook AI Research ...
Business
The very first industrial revolution historically kicked off with the introduction of steam- and water-powered technology. We have come a long way since then, with the current fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, ...
Sep 8, 2022
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Engineering
In firefighting, the worst flames are the ones you don't see coming. Amid the chaos of a burning building, it is difficult to notice the signs of impending flashover—a deadly fire phenomenon wherein nearly all combustible ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Popular voice assistants like Siri and Amazon Alexa have introduced automatic speech recognition (ASR) to the wider public. Though decades in the making, ASR models struggle with consistency and reliability, especially in ...
Sep 2, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
Washington State University researchers are creating the first-ever "IQ test" for artificial intelligence (AI) systems that would score systems on how well they learn and adapt to new, unknown environments.
Dec 13, 2019
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