Consumer & Gadgets
Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego received an Amazon Research Award to develop a voice assistant to better communicate with older adults. Their initial goal is to create a system capable of understanding ...
Apr 29, 2021
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Security
Scientists have developed a better way to recognize a common internet attack, improving detection by 90 percent compared to current methods.
Aug 3, 2023
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Internet
Computer scientists created a new algorithm to recommend tags for social media posts which should boost the popularity of the post in question. This algorithm takes into account more kinds of information than previous algorithms ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
Seven years ago, my student and I at Penn State built a bot to write a Wikipedia article on Bengali Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's play "Chitra." First it culled information about "Chitra" from the internet. Then it ...
Sep 23, 2020
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Computer Sciences
In June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines by claiming the company's LaMDA chatbot had achieved sentience. The software had the conversational ability of a precocious seven-year-old, Lemoine said, and we should ...
Sep 12, 2023
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Robotics
You might call it "zoobotics." Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, the director of the Continuum Robotics Lab at U of T Mississauga, and her team are building very slender, flexible and extensible robots, a few millimeters in diameter, ...
May 12, 2021
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Business
Amazon is moving to create it own lab to test employees for coronavirus as the e-commerce giant struggles with safety issues amid the pandemic.
Apr 10, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Wildfires have become increasingly frequent due to climate change, with record occurrences in areas not historically prone to them. In California, wildfires and regional power shutoffs have cost billions and taken lives. ...
Jun 15, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Two new algorithms could help earthquake early warning systems buy you a few extra seconds to drop, cover, and hold on before the ground begins to shake.
Nov 27, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Twitter is ending free access to its application programming interface, or API. An API serves as a software "middleman" allowing two applications to talk to each other. An API is an accessible way to collect and share data ...
Feb 9, 2023
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