Researchers developed a smart necklace called NeckFace which can continuously track full facial expressions by using infrared cameras to capture images of the chin and face from beneath the neck. The team led by Cheng Zhang, assistant professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, detailed their work in “NeckFace: Continuously Tracking Full Facial Expressions on Neck-mounted Wearables,” Neckface potentially tracks facial expressions and senses the emotions accordingly. In addition to this author’s listed many applications of the smart necklace such…
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It’s time to update your older android devices: Google recommends.
If you are still using a smartphone that runs on the final version of Android Gingerbread or older, Google won’t allow you to sign in to your google account on that phone from September 27th. There are more than three billion active android users and the change is likely to affect those people who still rely on older tech. Android 2.3.7 ( Gingerbread) was released 10 years ago. Google says, ” As part of our ongoing efforts to keep our users safe, Google will no longer allow sign-in on Android devices…
Read MoreTelegram allows 1000 people to watch anything together: Everything you should know.
When the pandemic shut the door of workplaces, video conferencing became an integral part of our professional lives. Video conferencing platforms like zoom gained instant popularity since it supports up to 100 participants to join a video call. Now the popular platform Telegram rolls out a new update that will enable up to 1000 people to watch anything together. But the limit for group video calls remains 30. Telegram is soon expected to increase the limit for this too. The rivals of telegram such as zoom support a maximum…
Read MoreTwitter to launch bounty programs to uncover algorithmic bias
Twitter announced on Friday that it would give a cash “bounty” to users and researchers to root out algorithmic bias on the social media platform. The competition is inspired by the “bug bounty” programs some websites offer to discover security holes and vulnerabilities, according to Twitter executives Rumman Chowdhury and Jutta Williams. Twitter previously launched an algorithmic fairness initiative, that was discarding an automated image-cropping system after receiving negative reviews. “We’re inspired by how the research and hacker communities helped the security field establish best practices for identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities to protect…
Read MoreAI for All launched by prime minister Narendra Modi
The prime minister of India Sri, Narendra Modi initiated the “AI for All ” program at the first-anniversary event of national education policy. AI for all is a joint initiative in collaboration with CBSE, Ministry of education and Intel India. The purpose of this initiative is to create a basic understanding of Artificial Intelligence for every Indian resident and eventually train one million citizens in the first year itself. AI For All is a four-hour, self-paced, micro-learning program that applies to a student, a stay-at-home parent as it is to…
Read MoreAround 5 million youngsters to be skilled in robotics by 2022..!
Leading tech companies are in a steady race to rewrite the way robotics are executed in industries and people’s everyday lives. The innovations taking place in the robotic industry will lead us to an exciting future. The robots are going to be an integral part of our future..!! Governments and other organizations out there now need to focus on providing the right robotic skills necessary to work in the future.Very few countries are taking the bull by the horns when it comes to tailoring education systems for the age…
Read MoreA ground-breaking discovery in robot design
Researchers at Tohoku University with the backing of the Human Frontier Science Program, have decrypted the flexible motor control mechanisms underlying salamander walking. The salamander is an amphibian and the most suitable specimen for understanding body-limb coordination mechanisms. The researchers modelled the nervous system of the salamander mathematically and physically. In making the model, the researchers hypothesized that the legs and the body are controlled to support other motions by distributing sensory information. They then reproduced the speed-dependent gait transitions of salamanders through computer simulations. The discovery is expected to promote the…
Read MoreWhatsApp to allow users to migrate chat history from iOS to Android.
WhatsApp announces their new feature that allows users to transfer chat history from iOS to android. A report by XDA Developers says, users could migrate their chat history from iOS to Android by using a ‘Switch to Android’ on the App Store. The new feature will help users to transfer data between iOS and Android platforms, without having to rely on third-party applications. WABeta info, a popular website that updates everything about the new WhatsApp feature shared about the ‘switch to android’ on their Twitter handle with few screenshots of…
Read MoreFacebook open sources droidlet- the platform to build robots
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…
Read MoreResearchers to find out the best teleconferencing platform: All you need to know
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…
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