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Droid let, The platform for building robots that leverage natural language processing to understand the world around them. According to a new report from venture beat, Facebook has open-sourced droidlet recently.   Droidlet enables researchers to test different NLP and computer visions to build systems that can accomplish tasks in the real world or simulated environments like Minecraft or Facebook’s Habitat. It simplifies the integration of machine learning algorithms in robots. The platform delivers a dashboard for researchers to add debugging and visualization widgets and tools as well as an interface for rectifying errors and annotation. Droidlet ships with wrappers for connecting…

As a result of the covid 19 pandemic, People across the world stay connected using teleconferencing platforms like Zoom. But when it comes to telemedicine, not all medical care is easily translated to a remote format.   In remote medical practices, voice therapy presents a particular challenge because clinicians must depend on acoustic recordings of voice to assess the efficacy of their procedures. But most teleconferencing platforms distort sounds in their efforts to remove background noise. Boston University graduate researcher Hasini Weerathunge associated with other BU researchers to put five…

Twitter on Wednesday began testing a new feature that helps businesses to, sell their products from their page. “Though we are in very early explorations, we’re excited about the potential of shopping on Twitter and eager to learn more as we go,” Goldbird product lead Bruce Falck said in a blog post. The primary goal of this new feature is to enable users to purchase a product. Business pages will have space in their profile to showcase their products, as per reports. “Fundamentally, it’ll give us the chance to keep…

China has announced a 6 months-long campaign to clean up applications that violates consumer rights, cybersecurity and disturbing market order. The campaign was launched on Friday by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The order is part of a wider effort to crack down on tech industries and police use of personal information. Authorities have ordered fines and other penalties for some of China’s biggest tech companies. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology identified 22 specific scenarios that required urgent rectification include malicious blocking of website links and…

A team of researchers developed an AI-empowered video surveillance system used to observe and inform social distancing breaches without compromising privacy.They demonstrated it by keeping image processing gated to a local network of cameras, thereby outdoing the necessity to store sensitive data in a central server. They conducted the case study at Gold Coast Airport which, pre-COVID-19 had 6.5 million passengers annually with 17,000 passengers on-site daily. Hundreds of cameras cover 290,000 square meters with hundreds of shops and more than 40 check-in points. Experimenters lightweight and cutting-edge algorithms for…

Visualize a world where you can bring a virtual version of your workplace while you are at a beach…!! That’s how metaverse is expected to begin a revolution. The term “metaverse” was introduced by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel “Snow crash”. The metaverse concept again created a buzz recently with some huge investments that have been made by giant companies. Metaverse is the mixture of the physical world with the digital one using augmented reality. Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced his new team to work for the…