A hot potato: George Orwell’s vision of Big Brother is more or less a reality. While most parts of the world don’t quite fit the dystopian paradigm set out in his 1984 novel, you’d be hard-pressed to find an urban place on Earth that didn’t have cameras monitoring your every move. What Orwell did not … Read more
Chinese researchers have created a prototype drone powered by a laser beam; he would therefore never need to land… in theory. In recent years, individuals have been able to afford increasingly sophisticated drones that were long reserved for wealthy professionals. But these machines still suffer from a universal limit: autonomy, which remains limited because of … Read more
Written in 1547 by the Emperor to his ambassador in Paris, the letter sheds new light on the relationship between the kingdom of Francis I and the Holy Roman Empire. A series of symbolsunintelligible” which lights up five centuries later: four researchers presented their discovery in France on Wednesday, the deciphering of a letter written … Read more
Views: 302 The University of Lomé hosted a seminar on Friday on the Information Practices of Artificial Intelligence actors. This scientific meeting was co-organized by the Unesco Chair in Emerging Practices in Technologies and Communication for Development at Bordeaux Montaigne University and the Center for Studies and Research on Organizations, Communication and Education (CEROCE). The … Read more
Using a simple set of magnets, MIT researchers have developed a sophisticated way to monitor muscle movement, which they hope will make it easier for amputees to control their prosthetic limbs. In a new pair of papers, the researchers demonstrated the accuracy and safety of their magnet-based system, which can track the length of muscles … Read more
A team of researchers from Cornell University, MIT and McGill University have developed an AI system that can learn the rules and patterns of human languages on its own. The study “Synthesizing theories of human language with Bayesian program induction” was published in NatureCommunications. The researchers were interested in discovering AI-driven theories, they chose human … Read more
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In 1957, while renovating vaults at the ruined site of Whithorn Priory (Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland), workers came across several skeletons in a medieval crypt. But sixty years later, scientists are trying to bring them back to life through the project “Cold Case Whithorn“, conducted by The Whithorn Trust, a charitable organization that now … Read more
Breast cancer screening is done by medical imaging and by an analysis of the images by two radiologists… And to avoid missing anything, we are looking for techniques with very high sensitivity… and who says high sensitivity, says risk of false positives… that is to say that we will decree that a case is suspect … Read more
This chip developed by NIST is used to measure the performance of memory devices used by artificial intelligence algorithms. NIST and Google have signed a cooperative research and development agreement to produce a new suite of chips to measure the performance of devices used in a range of advanced applications. Credit: B. Hoskins/NIST – Advertising … Read more