Computer & Information Technology

11 Sep 23

Python Profiler Links to AI to Improve Code

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Python continues its dominance as one of the top programming languages, yet it’s notorious for being sluggish, so some software developers resort to profilers—tools that run programs to determine which parts of the code are slow. But profilers can be frustrating, because they can slow programs down during the profiling…

11 Sep 23

Haptic GPS Steers With a Puff of Air

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Trying to listen to your GPS dictate directions while navigating a busy city or while taking an important work call can be a sensory nightmare. And for the more than two billion people with partial or total vision or hearing loss, these navigation systems can be nearly useless.A team of…

29 Aug 23

Worldcoin Launched. Then Came the Backlash

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The controversial cryptocurrency-cum-biometric identification project Worldcoin finally launched last month and now boasts more than two million sign-ups. But the scheme has attracted scrutiny from regulators in several countries, suggesting that its mission to become the world’s arbiter of digital identity could face a rocky road. Cofounded by OpenAI CEO…

26 Aug 23

This AI Can Tell What You’re Typing Based on the Sound

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The messages you type can be decoded from the mere sound of your fingers tapping on the keys, according to a recent paper by researchers at Durham and Surrey Universities and the University of…

25 Aug 23

Record Broken: Decoding Words From Brain Signals

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Two new brain-computer interfaces (BCI)—electronic bridges between mind and machine—decode words from people’s unspoken but intended speech. The two systems, presented in papers published this week in the journal Nature, demonstrate performance breakthroughs for speech-decoding BCI developed by scientists at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco.Both papers…

23 Aug 23

IBM’S AI Chip May Find Use in Generative AI

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An artificial intelligence chip from IBM is more than a dozen times as energy efficient as conventional microchips at speech recognition. Many controversial AI systems, including ChatGPT and other large language models, as well as generative AI now used to create video and images, may benefit from the device.The accuracy…

18 Aug 23

Neurotech Overhears Songs from Listener’s Brainwaves

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Ever had a song stuck in your head? New research from a team of neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley maps out regions of the human brain that make earworms—and music perception more broadly—possible.The research results, recently published in the journal PLOS Biology, show how human brains respond to…

11 Aug 23

3D Haptic Display Melds Touch With Tech

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What started out as trying to create soft, simulated organs for medical devices and surgical robots, has given us, instead, a touch-sensitive, shape-morphing 3D display. This multifunctional device, developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, is about as big as a…

04 Aug 23

HADAR Brings Depth and Texture to “Ghostly” Heat Images

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If autonomous vehicles and robots are ever going to be safe and efficient, they need to perceive their surroundings. They also need to be able to predict the behavior of the stuff around them—whether that’s other robots, vehicles, or even people—and plan their paths and make decisions accordingly. In other…

01 Aug 23

AI-Assisted Pathology Ready For Mainstream

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Laboratory scientists and clinical pathologists currently spend hours in darkened rooms analyzing and testing tissue and fluids of patients for evidence of disease. Unlike blood tests, which are performed using automated analyzers, pathology samples are subject to time-consuming manual microscopy. Digital pathology, which uses a computer-controlled microscope to scan and…

Python Profiler Links to AI to Improve Code

Haptic GPS Steers With a Puff of Air

This AI Can Tell What You’re Typing Based on the Sound

Record Broken: Decoding Words From Brain Signals

IBM’S AI Chip May Find Use in Generative AI

Neurotech Overhears Songs from Listener’s Brainwaves

3D Haptic Display Melds Touch With Tech

HADAR Brings Depth and Texture to “Ghostly” Heat Images

AI-Assisted Pathology Ready For Mainstream

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