A team of University and Adobe researchers is outperforming other approaches to creating computer-generated image captions in an international competition. The key to their winning approach? Thinking about words - what they ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 17, 2016
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A new Georgia Tech study finds that Instagram's decision to ban certain words commonly used by pro-eating disorder (pro-ED) communities has produced an unintended effect. The use of those terms decreased when they were censored ...
Internet
Mar 9, 2016
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Not so tricky. More straightforward. Guessing allowed. The newly redesigned SAT college entrance exam that debuts nationally Saturday is getting good reviews from some of the students who took it early this week.
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2016
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Google is escalating an attack on Microsoft's lucrative Office software in an attempt to hit its longtime rival where it will hurt the most.
Business
Oct 19, 2015
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Engineers have spent decades trying to build a significantly better battery for laptop and tablet computers.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 5, 2015
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It is a cornerstone of theoretical linguistics: the principle of arbitrariness, according to which the form of a word doesn't tell you anything about its meaning. Yet evidence is accumulating that natural languages do in ...
Social Sciences
Oct 1, 2015
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The words people use on social media can reveal hidden meaning to those who know where to look.
Computer Sciences
Sep 29, 2015
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It is often said that the Inuit have 50 different words for snow but researchers at the University of Glasgow have discovered that the Scots have even more.
Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2015
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Microsoft launched its new Office suite, touting the key software as a collaborative tool which can work across multiple devices.
Software
Sep 22, 2015
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The universal online dictionary Kamusi has just added 1.2 million terms from several databases in its quest to translate all the meanings of every word in all the world's languages. Three African languages and 200,000 words ...
Software
Sep 18, 2015
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