The president-elect is expected to keep the Trump administration’s antitrust case against Google on track, potentially even opening additional cases into Facebook, Amazon and Apple. And antitrust legislation, usually framed as an existential threat to “tech” broadly, stands to benefit…
The Google team provided so little information about its code and how it was tested that the study amounted to nothing more than a promotion of proprietary tech. “We couldn’t take it anymore,” says Benjamin Haibe-Kains.“When we saw that paper…
First, there was quill and ink. Then the fountain pen, followed by the ballpoint pen. Now, we can add something new to the history books: the compostable pen. ep, a new marker by design agency Carlo Ratti Association, called the…
In a paper published recently in the IEEE Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, the team reports on an AI model that distinguishes asymptomatic people from healthy individuals through forced-cough recordings, which people voluntarily submitted through web browsers and…
Our dreams are neural activity in our brain; there’s nothing special about them that doesn’t affect every other emotional or perceptual experience we have in our waking lives. The big caveat is not the technology, but the fact that we…
Some have suggested that blockchain, a decentralized, distributed ledger, may be useful for voting. But in a new paper, researchers at MIT affirm a humorous cartoon from XKCD about potential blockchain voting products: “Whatever they sold you, don’t touch it.…
Using machine learning to analyze the text of more than 800,000 Reddit posts, the researchers were able to identify changes in the tone and content of language that people used as the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic progressed, from…
Adam Conner-Simons introduces an MIT CSAIL system that aims to help linguists decipher languages without advanced knowledge of relations to other languages. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have recently developed a new system that can…
As the United States faces a tsunami of Covid-19 infections, with 2,200 daily deaths projected by mid-January, a national masking mandate is long overdue as part of a federal strategy to prevent further spread of the virus. We also urgently…
Skylum describes it as the ‘first image editor fully powered by artificial intelligence’, it can analyze your photos and then suggesting what edits and effects you should apply. With it, you can automatically transform the look of your photos, quickly…
