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Review: Urbanista’s solar-powered Los Angeles headphones feel like the future
Whenever I unbox new wireless headphones for review, the first thing I do is connect them to a charger so I can have a nice long listening session the next day. But rather than connect a charger to the Urbanista...
Robots don’t care what Josh Hawley thinks about masculinity
US Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, recently blamed the perceived loss of American masculinity on liberal ideologies, video games, and pornography. Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference in Florida last week, Hawley asked the crowd: Still, can we...
Watch: First-ever drag race between flying cars
Back in June, Australian startup Alauda Racing unveiled its Airspeeder MK3. The company defines the aircraft as a full-sized remotely-operated electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (eVTOL). The Airspeeder though isn’t your average eVTOL — it’s a flying race car....
Startup harnesses self-supervised learning to tackle speech recognition biases
Speech recognition systems struggle to understand African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In a 2020 study by Stanford University researchers, the software performed so poorly for AAVE that some leading systems made correct transcriptions for barely half the words spoken. The...
Solve snoring issues with Pre-Black Friday savings on this sleep simulator
Whether you are attempting to sleep alongside someone who snores or dealing with that issue yourself, it’s a problem that impacts more people than you might imagine. As a result, there are an abundance of so-called solutions available on a...
Reinforcement learning makes for shitty AI teammates in co-op games
This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has proven that complicated board and video games are no longer the exclusive domain of...
The slippery slope of using AI and deepfakes to bring history to life
To mark Israel’s Memorial Day in 2021, the Israel Defense Forces musical ensembles collaborated with a company that specializes in synthetic videos, also known as “deepfake” technology, to bring photos from the 1948 Israeli-Arab war to life. They produced a...
Everything you wanted to know about the metaverse (but were afraid to ask)
In the wake of Facebook rebranding as Meta, reflecting its focus on the “metaverse”, Microsoft has now announced it, too, will launch into this space. Meta has proposed that the metaverse will eventually allow us to engage across education, work...
This pre-Black Friday sale on in-depth JavaScript training can make you a true coder in 2022
TLDR: The 2022 JavaScript Developer Bootcamp Certification Bundle features more than 120 hours of training in all things JavaScript, all for less than $26. So, Python just overtook JavaScript as the most popular coding language in the world. So that’s...