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New software enables blind and low-vision users to create interactive, accessible charts
A growing number of tools enable users to make online data representations, like charts, that are accessible for people who are blind or have low vision. However, most tools require an existing visual chart that can then ...
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Mar 27, 2024
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Food safety: Two-stage process of extraction and classification to identify ingredients in photos of food
Research published in the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems discusses a new approach to the identification of ingredients in photographs of food. The work will be useful in our moving forward on ...
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Mar 26, 2024
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Introducing Floorlocator, a system that enhances indoor navigation
Indoor positioning is transforming with applications demanding precise location tracking. Traditional methods, including fingerprinting and sensor-based techniques, though widely used, face significant drawbacks, such as ...
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Mar 20, 2024
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Researcher: I created a 'cozy game' and learned how they can change players' lives
The COVID pandemic transformed our lives in ways many of us are still experiencing, four years later. One of these changes was the significant uptake in gaming as a hobby, chief among them being "cozy games" like Animal Crossing: ...
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Mar 14, 2024
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From Asteroids to Guitar Hero, World Video Game Hall of Fame finalists draw from 4 decades
The 12 finalists for the World Video Game Hall of Fame this year draw from four decades of gaming, from Atari Asteroids, played on coin-fed consoles in arcades, to Guitar Hero, for living-room rockers who compete on a plastic ...
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Mar 14, 2024
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Researchers develop new control method that optimizes autonomous ship navigation
The study of ship maneuvering at sea has long been the central focus of the shipping industry. With the rapid advancements in remote control, communication technologies, and artificial intelligence, the concept of Maritime ...
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Mar 13, 2024
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Using generative AI to improve software testing
Generative AI is getting plenty of attention for its ability to create text and images. But those media represent only a fraction of the data that proliferate in our society today. Data are generated every time a patient ...
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Mar 5, 2024
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Innovative electricity system balancing tool helps keep Britain's lights on
A new cutting-edge tool developed in collaboration with researchers from the University of Strathclyde is helping to revolutionize the real-time balancing of Britain's electricity network.
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Mar 5, 2024
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Optimal shipping carton utilization
Products ordered online are often shipped in oversized cartons. The size of the overall package is frequently much larger than its contents. For example, a fragrance bottle is shipped in a shoebox-sized package, which has ...
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Mar 3, 2024
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Is the future of open source software at risk due to protestware?
SMU Associate Professor Christoph Treude examines the foundations for studies on open-source software and protestware.
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Feb 23, 2024
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Ultra-fast generative visual intelligence model creates images in just 2 seconds
ETRI's researchers have unveiled a technology that combines generative AI and visual intelligence to create images from text inputs in just 2 seconds, propelling the field of ultra-fast generative visual intelligence.
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Feb 22, 2024
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OpenAI's new generative tool Sora could revolutionize marketing and content creation
OpenAI's new generative Sora tool has sparked lively technology discussions over the past week, generating both enthusiasm and concern among fans and critics.
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Feb 22, 2024
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Artificial intelligence recognizes and learns to predict patterns in behavior from video
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University Hospital Bonn and the University of Bonn have created an open-source platform known as A-SOiD that can learn and predict user-defined behaviors, just from video. ...
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Feb 21, 2024
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New machine learning method predicts future data patterns to optimize data storage
Researchers have developed a new machine-learning technique that helps computer systems predict future data patterns and optimize how information gets stored. They found these predictions could provide up to a 40% speed boost ...
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Feb 15, 2024
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Ubisoft launches long-awaited 'Skull and Bones' video game
After years of production headwinds, Ubisoft's oft-delayed pirate video game "Skull and Bones" is set to launch on Friday.
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Feb 15, 2024
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Electronic music with a human rhythm
Electronically generated rhythms are often perceived as too artificial. New software now allows producers to make rhythms sound more natural in computer-produced music. Research at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and ...
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Feb 5, 2024
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A fully autonomous drone system for cinematography and wildlife monitoring
Recent technological advances, such as increasingly sophisticated drones and cameras, have opened exciting new possibilities for cinematography. Most notably, film directors can now shoot scenes from a wide range of angles ...
Bringing together real-world sensors and VR to improve building maintenance
A new system that brings together real-world sensing and virtual reality would make it easier for building maintenance personnel to identify and fix issues in commercial buildings that are in operation. The system was developed ...
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Jan 31, 2024
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App lets Indigenous Brazilians connect in own languages
For Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon, getting online is a challenge. Now, a smartphone app is making it easier to connect by allowing them to use their own native languages.
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Jan 30, 2024
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Where are all the women in tech?
While working as a software development project manager in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Bianca Trinkenreich was always one of few women in the room—and she often wondered why. When she came to NAU as a Ph.D. student, she had ...
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Jan 29, 2024
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