An electronic nose for wine
Researchers in China have applied an array of sensors—an electronic nose—that can sniff bouquet of rice wine and offer an estimate of the vintage. Writing in the International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, the scientists explain how their artificial olfactory system takes data from sensors sampling a rice wine and uses a computer to carry out a statistical analysis of the signals to give an essentially 100 percent accurate age for the wine.
Orchard raises $69 million to develop machine learning for buying and selling homes
Orchard raised $69 million to continue the development of its machine learning technology that aims to make buying a home less complicated.
Portland becomes first US city to ban companies from using facial recognition in public places
Portland is the first city in the US to bar both businesses and public agencies from using facial recognition. Will the rest of the country follow its lead?
Smart robot: New OS a brain boost for collaborative robots
Instead of designing new hardware, what if we could make existing automation platforms even smarter?
Wi-Fi sensing adds motion detection and gesture recognition to your wireless network
Wi-Fi sensing builds upon the mechanisms already used in wireless networks to detect environmental changes, enabling novel use cases like gesture control.
Would you want a robot to be your relative's carer? | Anna Machin
A plan to introduce robots into care homes ignores the medicinal benefit of human contact, says the anthropologist Anna Machin
Descartes Underwriting raises $18.5 million for its data-driven insurance platform
Descartes Underwriting, a startup applying AI and machine learning technologies to insurance underwriting, has raised $18.5 million.
Anduril’s New Drone Offers to Inject More AI Into Warfare
A swarm of Ghost 4s, controlled by a single person on the ground, can perform reconnaissance missions like searching for enemy weapons or soldiers.
Experiments reveal why human-like robots elicit uncanny feelings
Experiments reveal a dynamic process that leads to the uncanny valley, with implications for both the design of robots and for understanding how we perceive one another as humans.
Portland City Council votes to ban facial recognition technologies in public places
Portland City Council voted to ban the use of facial recognition in public places and by government agencies, including the Portland Police Department.
AI Ruined Chess. Now, It's Making the Game Beautiful Again
A former world champion teams up with the makers of AlphaZero to test variants on the age-old game that can jolt players into creative patterns.
Device tracks house appliances through vibration, AI
To boost efficiency in typical households—where people forget to take wet clothes out of washing machines, retrieve hot food from microwaves and turn off dripping faucets—Cornell University researchers have developed a single device that can track 17 types of appliances using vibrations.
Motorola advances Razr with 5G, better specs, more carriers for $1,399
What Motorola's second version of Razr shows is that the foldable device category is maturing rapidly with broader availability.
Iron Ox raises $20 million to grow robotic greenhouse operations
Iron Ox plans to expand its robotic growing solution to greenhouses in California and other parts of the U.S. after a $20 million series B funding round.
Researchers find cutting-edge language models fall short in basic reasoning
A new paper finds that even cutting-edge language models like OpenAI's GPT-3 perform poorly when it comes to commonsense reasoning.
NIST benchmarks show facial recognition technology still struggles to identify Black faces
NIST benchmarks suggest some facial recognition algorithms haven't corrected historic bias -- and are actually getting worse.
Facebook and Dolby join Amazon’s Voice Interoperability Initiative
More than 70 companies now count themselves, members of Amazon's Voice Interoperability Initiative, which recently published a design guide.
AI standards launched to help tackle problem of overhyped studies
New guidelines aimed at ensuring AI research is of same quality as that in other fields