At CES, tech for sleep, not late night scrolling
Technology causes us to lose sleep, but can it also give it back?
Jan 11, 2024
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Internet
A system to keep cloud-based gamers in sync
Cloud gaming, which involves playing a video game remotely from the cloud, witnessed unprecedented growth during the lockdowns and gaming hardware shortages that occurred during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, ...
Aug 31, 2023
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Business
Do we need a new law for AI? Sure—but first we could try enforcing the laws we already have
Regulation was once a dirty word in tech companies around the world. They argued that if people wanted better smartphones and flying cars, we had to look past dusty old laws dreamed up in the pre-internet era.
Aug 14, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Team develops bracelet that jams microphones
The very topic of digital assistants and home smart devices sporting microphones and the potential for the outside world to listen in on recordings is not a comfortable one, to say the least. It's no longer a simple case ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Robo-crib highlights infant safety at technology show
A robotic crib with a mission of preventing sudden infant death syndrome made its appearance this week at the Consumer Electronics Show, part of a growing "baby tech" exhibit.
Jan 10, 2020
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Engineering
First smart speaker system that uses white noise to monitor infants' breathing
Gone are the days when people use smart speakers—like Amazon Echo or Google Home—only as kitchen timers or dinner party music players. These devices have started helping people track their own health, and can even monitor ...
Oct 16, 2019
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Computer Sciences
WaveGlow: A flow-based generative network to synthesize speech
A team of researchers at NVIDIA has recently developed WaveGlow, a flow-based network that can generate high-quality speech from melspectrograms, which are acoustic time-frequency representations of sound. Their method, outlined ...
Security
Research proposes background noise to prevent side channel attacks on computer keyboards
Between email, social media accounts, utilities, and banking and credit card accounts, the average person has 27 discrete online logins used to log into personal and professional computers, and security experts spend countless ...
Sep 27, 2016
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