Neural networks restore microscopic images
Skoltech Ph.D. student Valeriya Pronina presented her work on microscopy image restoration at the computer vision conference ECCV 2020. For the idea behind this research, Valeriya was awarded the Ostrogradski scholarship from the French government and invited to conduct a joint research in a laboratory at the Lyon National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA Lyon) in France.
Follow-the-leader: A shortcut to autonomous trucking
Auto trucks don't need drivers if they have a good guide.
First hydrogen-powered aircraft takes flight in ‘major’ breakthrough for the industry
ZeroAvia says this form of next-generation craft will eventually match fossil fuel counterparts.
Microsoft and Telstra to partner on cloud, IoT, and digital twins
The solutions will be built on Azure and leverage Telstra's Data Hub.
Monash University researchers speed up epilepsy diagnosis with machine learning
The technology has been designed to automatically detect abnormal activities in electrical recordings.
Laterality of specific binding ratios on DAT-SPECT for differential diagnosis of degenerative parkinsonian syndromes
MSFragger-Glyco allows identification of N- and O-linked glycopeptides using the localization-aware open search strategy of the MSFragger search engine.
Amazon is embracing surveillance-as-a-service
Ring and parent company Amazon rolled out more than a dozen products and services today, and surveillance is at the heart of virtually every one of them.
GPT-3’s bigotry is exactly why devs shouldn’t use the internet to train AI
“Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” – Dr. Ian Malcolm, fictional character, Jurassic Park. It turns out that a $1 billion investment from Microsoft and unfettered a
Mugshots from U.S. Customers and Border Protection database leaked onto the dark web
An inspector general report found that a data breach last year resulted in at least 19 mugshots of people from a CBP database leaking onto the dark web.
Amazon launches Care Hub for family to monitor senior citizens
Amazon's Care Hub gives families a way to monitor loved ones and calls an emergency contact when a smart speaker hears "Alexa, call for help!"
Amazon debuts new Ring products, including a mini home surviellance drone
Amazon's new Ring products include a mini drone that flys through the home to look for and detection motion, as well as in-car alarms and cameras.
Alexa will soon gain more natural-sounding speech and recognize when multiple people are speaking
Amazon announced a slew of new developer tools and resources for Alexa during its annual September hardware event.
Facebook’s Dynabench aims to make AI models more robust through distributed human workers
Facebook's Dynabench, an open development platform for data scientists, is an attempt to make AI models more robust through crowdsourcing.
Alexa Now Has Its Own Questions for You
A new feature from Amazon allows the intelligent assistant to ask users to clarify requests, such as “Dim the lights.”
Nuvia raises $240 million to design Arm-based CPUs for datacenters
Chip startup Nuvia has raised $240 million to design Arm-based processors for datacenters in a bid to balance energy efficiency and high performance.
Wilson Logistics will put Locomation’s autonomous driving tech in 1,000 trucks
Wilson Logistics has signed a deal with Locomation to equip over 1,000 of Wilson's trucks with autonomous platooning technology.
In facial recognition challenge, top-ranking algorithms show bias against Black women
The results from a recent facial recognition competition demonstrate that even the best algorithms are still prone to gender and racial bias.