Microsoft buying speech recognition firm Nuance in $16B deal
Microsoft, on an accelerated growth push, is buying speech recognition company Nuance in a deal worth about $16 billion.
Apr 12, 2021
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'Get back to what you love': Google COVID-19 vaccine ad garners 6.3 million views, emotional response
Google is encouraging the public to "get back to what you love" with a video that ends with the search phrase: "COVID vaccine near me."
Apr 6, 2021
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Engineering
A seven-point plan to tackle the world's biggest cooling challenge
The COVID-19 logistics response could be the biggest, single refrigeration challenge the world has ever faced. Cold chains are energy intensive and rely on refrigerants, often with high Global Warming Potential (GWP).
Mar 30, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Artist's intent: AI recognizes emotions in visual art
Experts in artificial intelligence have gotten quite good at creating computers that can "see" the world around them—recognizing objects, animals, and activities within their purview. These have become the foundational ...
Mar 26, 2021
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Beauty is in the brain: AI reads brain data, generates personally attractive images
Researchers have succeeded in making an AI understand our subjective notions of what makes faces attractive. The device demonstrated this knowledge by its ability to create new portraits that were tailored to be found personally ...
Mar 5, 2021
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Automotive
A responder's critical path
We've all come to rely on the navigation apps on our mobile devices to steer our daily itineraries. Within seconds of typing our destination into a blinking search bar, we have an expertly planned route and estimated time ...
Jan 27, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Large-area flexible organic photodiodes can compete with silicon devices
The performance of flexible large-area organic photodiodes has advanced to the point that they can now offer advantages over conventional silicon photodiode technology, particularly for applications such as biomedical imaging ...
Nov 5, 2020
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Internet
Researcher explains benefits of using geotagged content in research
In a recent commentary published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, UB geographic information science expert Yingjie Hu and colleague Ruo-Qian Wang wrote about how Twitter's decision to remove users' ability to tag the ...
Oct 13, 2020
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Security
Crowdsourcing challenge to de-identify public safety data sets
The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a crowdsourcing challenge to spur new methods to ensure that important public safety data sets can be de-identified to protect ...
Oct 2, 2020
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Security
Hackers targeting companies that fake corporate responsibility
A new study suggests some hackers aren't just in it for the money but instead are motivated by their disappointment in a company's attempts to fake social responsibility.
Oct 1, 2020
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