Business
Almost all of the clothing sold in America comes from overseas, making a long journey on a shipping container into a domestic port. Peer inside any apparel shipment bound for customs checkpoints, groaning with t-shirts or ...
Mar 22, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Psychology studies have demonstrated that by the age of 4–5, young children have developed intricate visual models of the world around them. These internal visual models allow them to outperform advanced computer vision ...
Machine learning & AI
Words are important to express ourselves. What we don't say, however, may be even more instrumental in conveying emotions. Humans can often tell how people around them feel through non-verbal cues embedded in our voice.
Mar 20, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Pneumonia, an infection in the lungs that causes difficulty breathing, is most commonly diagnosed through chest X-rays. Typically, those chest X-rays are read by radiologists, but workforce shortages mean that in the future, ...
Mar 19, 2024
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Robotics
Researchers at the University of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology recently developed Granulobot, a new modular robotic system that can change its physical shape to best navigate different environments.
Consumer & Gadgets
Billions of dollars are being spent worldwide to modernize electricity grids with smart meters. These meters promise to save households money by making it easier for us to understand and manage our energy use. However, our ...
Mar 18, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science that focuses on the use of data and algorithms to allow computers to learn without explicitly being programmed. While discussions surrounding ...
Mar 14, 2024
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Robotics
The robot known as ANYmal has, for some time, had no problem coping with the stony terrain of Swiss hiking trails. Now researchers at ETH Zurich have taught this quadrupedal robot some new skills: It is proving rather adept ...
Mar 13, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Imagine performing a sweep around an object with your smartphone and getting a realistic, fully editable 3D model that you can view from any angle. This is fast becoming reality, thanks to advances in AI.
Mar 12, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
How do you know you are looking at a dog? What are the odds you are right? If you're a machine-learning algorithm, you sift through thousands of images—and millions of probabilities—to arrive at the "true" answer, but ...
Mar 12, 2024
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