Geoffrey Hinton, soft-spoken godfather of AI
For a brief moment in spring last year, the bird-like features of bespectacled British-born researcher Geoffrey Hinton were poking out from TV screens across the world......»»
How origami might inform disease diagnoses
Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering looked to origami to create new sensors that could someday be employed to detect deformations in organs and also for use in wearables and soft robotics......»»
Culled fruit trees sunk into the Wadden Sea boost local diversity and abundance of marine life
Reefs, whether natural or man-made, are hotspots of marine biodiversity. But especially in soft-bottomed seas, reefs have become scarce because many hard substrates have been removed due to overfishing of shellfish, dredging, trawling, and deep-sea m.....»»
Watch the moment when India achieves historic moon landing
India's space program has received a massive boost after the nation made history by becoming the first to achieve a soft landing near the lunar South Pole......»»
How to watch India attempt to join exclusive moon-landing club
India is about to attempt a soft landing on the moon in a tough mission that, if successful, will put it in an exclusive club with only three other members......»»
Dog brains are tuned to dog-directed speech spoken by women
Dogs show greater brain sensitivity to the speech directed at them than to adult-directed speech, especially if spoken by women, according to a new study in Communications Biology......»»
With its moon lander, India hopes to succeed where Russia just failed
India is just a couple of days away from attempting a historic soft landing on the moon that would see it join an elite club......»»
Apple sponsors Dublin conference on speech processing
Apple is a main sponsor for the 24th Interspeech Conference, dedicated to spoken language computing, and will present proposals for activating Siri without a spoken command, plus better recognition for people with severe speech impairments.Dublin Con.....»»
An algorithm that shapes objects to cause them to roll down ramps following a desired path
A team of physicists and mathematicians at the Institute for Basic Science's Center for Soft and Living Matter, in South Korea, working with a colleague from the University of Geneva, has developed an algorithm that can be used to find the shape of a.....»»
Blizzard’s Warcraft Rumble has been soft launched
Back in 2022, Blizzard announced a new mobile game called Warcraft Rumble, and the good news for some is that the game has soft launched today. Some of you might recall that back in 2022, Blizzard announced an upcoming mobile game called.....»»
Spooky, stealthy night hunters: Revealing the wonderful otherworld of owls
The calls of owls come to me most nights through the open window of my bedroom. Mostly it is the soft, repeated, rhythmic "more … pork, more … pork" of a pair of boobooks......»»
The gamers have spoken: AMD obliterates Intel in CPU sales
AMD's 3D V-Cache chips continue to top charts, and that includes even the last-gen 5800X3D. New figures show AMD obliterating Intel on CPU sales......»»
Sew Wearable Soft Speakers
We’re going to explore ways to make audio speakers more wearable — not by sewing ordinary hard speakers into garments, but by creating new kinds of speakers out of textiles and conductive thread. Then we’ll make a soft speaker of our own! HOW.....»»
Gene grants powerful resistance to resurging plant disease
While wrapping oneself in 100% Egyptian cotton bedsheets is a delightful luxury on a warm summer night, cotton provides much more than breathable, soft fabric. In addition to textiles, the cotton plant is grown for food, fuel, and daily-use consumer.....»»
Boron nitride-based nanocomposites have unexpected properties, researchers discover
Just as carbon makes up both the brittle core of a No. 2 pencil and the harder-than-steel diamond in a cutting tool, boron nitride gives rise to compounds that can be soft or hard. Yet, unlike carbon, far less is known about boron nitride's forms and.....»»
Discovering nanomachines within living organisms: Cytochromes P450 unleashed as living soft robots
A new study reveals an important discovery in the realm of nanomachines within living systems. Prof. Sason Shaik from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Kshatresh Dutta Dubey from Shiv Nadar University, conducted molecular-dynamics simulation.....»»
Drop Paragon Series Deep Dive Keyboard review: An expensive wired keyboard
The Drop Paragon Series Deep Dive Keyboard offers a great typing experience with soft keys and a beautiful design. However, this may not be enough to support its $500 price tag.Drop Paragon Series Deep Dive KeyboardMechanical keyboards allow you to c.....»»
Insights into designing advanced stimuli-responsive porous materials
The "nothing" (empty space) feature of porous soft materials is foundational to their properties and applications, and has been a focus of study for many years. Now, researchers from Japan have solved a long-standing puzzle of these materials that wi.....»»
Autonomously switchable polymer materials developed for wearable medical devices
Wearable medical devices, such as the soft exoskeletons that provide support for stroke patients or controlled drug delivery patches, have to be made of materials that can adapt intelligently and autonomously to the wearer's movements and to changing.....»»
How fish evolved their bony, scaly armor
About 350 million years ago, your evolutionary ancestors—and the ancestors of all modern vertebrates—were merely soft-bodied animals living in the oceans. In order to survive and evolve to become what we are today, these animals needed to gain so.....»»
India aims to join exclusive club with Friday’s moon mission
India is just days away from its latest lunar mission in which it hopes to become only the fourth country to achieve a controlled, soft landing on the moon......»»