Alexa Learns to Talk Like a Human With Whispers, Pauses, and Emotion

May 8, 2017May 8, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: TechCrunch/MSN, 4/29/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Amazon is furthering the humanization of its virtual assistant Alexa by equipping it with more emotion functionality. Developers can use a markup language called Speech Synthesis Markup…

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Thanks to Google, Cubans Are Getting a Much Faster Internet

May 4, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: NBC News, 4/28/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Google has set up its own Internet servers in Cuba for the first time. Though the move will not increase the number of Cubans who…

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Elon Musk on Mission to Link Human Brains With Computers in Four Years: Report

April 26, 2017April 26, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: MSN/Reuters, 4/22/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Neuralink Corporation hopes to develop a micron-sized device that could connect the human brain and a machine interface. The initial goal is to help those with…

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Facebook Is Developing a Helicopter to Deliver Internet Access in Emergencies

April 24, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: The Verge, 4/20/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Facebook is developing a small helicopter to provide wireless Internet access in emergencies. Where cellular infrastructure is damaged, the "Tether-Tenna" helicopter would latch onto functioning…

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Robots Could Soon Cooperate on Surveillance

April 18, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: Engadget, 4/13/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Security robots could soon be able to communicate with other devices to identify and track objects and people, using a system currently being designed by Cornell…

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Selfies — Yes, Selfies — Could Help Diagnose Rare Genetic Disease

April 13, 2017April 12, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: CBS News/CNET, 4/1/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers demonstrated that facial recognition software can diagnose a rare disease known as DiGeorge syndrome. The software can analyze photos taken by a smartphone, circumventing…

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Cyborgs at Work: Employees Get Implanted With Microchips

April 11, 2017April 10, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: CBS News/AP, 4/3/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Epicenter, a Swedish startup, is implanting microchips into their employees as replacements for swipe cards. Using Near Field Communication (NFC), the microchips provide identifying data…

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Startup Matroid Uses AI to Pluck Images From Streams of Video

April 4, 2017April 3, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: MSN/Bloomberg News, 3/26/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Reza Zadeh, a professor at Stanford University, has begun an artificial intelligence (AI) startup called Matroid whose software can detect specific people or objects in…

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Dive With a Blue Whale in New Virtual-Reality Experience

March 28, 2017March 27, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: Live Science, 03/16/2017 >> View the Article << Summary The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles (NHMLA) collaborated with designers from Wevr to develop an oceanic underwater virtual reality (VR) experience for visitors. The…

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Offline AI Revolution Awaits Smartphones

March 23, 2017March 22, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: Phys.org/AFP, 2/27/2017 >> View the Article << Summary A number of smartphone manufacturers are attempting to improve devices' offline functioning by using artificial intelligence (AI) and onboard data storage that leverages faster processors. Other…

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Twitter Inches Forward in Fight Against Abuse

March 14, 2017March 14, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: The Huffington Post, 3/1/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Twitter is making efforts to crack down on harassment on their platform using several strategies: enhancing the Mute feature with new screening options, increasing…

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Machine-Learning Algorithms Can Predict Suicide Risk More Readily Than Clinicians, Study Finds

March 7, 2017March 6, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: Newsweek, 2/27/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Human clinicians are known not to be very accurate at predicting suicides, so researchers are developing machine-learning algorithms that use multiple factors to identify short-term suicide risk.…

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