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Software Automatically Takes Out Distracting Items From Your Photos
Researchers are trying to make your photos better by weeding out distractionsUnspalsh via PixabayThe internet is flooded with photos—of your brunch, of your cat, of your estranged elementary school...
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Algorithm Turns Fiction Into Interactive Games
An illustration from One Thousand And One Nights; the algorithm is named after the book's storytellerSani ol-Molk via Wikimedia CommonsComputer scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have...
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Could Algorithms Become Fashion Trendsetters?
Machine Derived ShirtsStitch FixWe have trained machines to dream, but can we make them follow their dreams of moving to New York to become a fashion designer? In a world where startups use algorithms...
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What To Make Of That Saliva Test For Homosexuality
Open wideMarcus QuigmireA new saliva test claims to show whether a man is straight or gay.A new saliva test purportedly shows whether a man is straight or gay, according to research presented today at...
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This Machine Writes Better Clickbait Than You
Lars EidnesClick-o-Tron is a web site entirely populated by clickbait articles written by artificial intelligence.When researchers experiment with machine learning, it’s often to create helpful tools...
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Researchers Teach Robots To Fall Over Gracefully When Shoved
Robots In Planned And Unplanned FallsScreenshot by author, from YouTubeIt takes skill to fall with grace. Not in a metaphorical sense, but in a very real one: emerging relatively unharmed after a...
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Facebook Makes All Your Public Posts Searchable
Facebook/ ScreenshotAs Google proved in 1998, if you want to rule the internet, the key is search. Last year, Facebook expanded its search feature to include not just users, but individual posts. This,...
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Can An Algorithm Find Artillery Craters In Satellite Images?
Annotated Craters In A Satellite ImageRudimentBattle isn’t subtle. The after-effects of a fight mark the earth, with damaged buildings, broken trees, destroyed vehicles, and upturned dirt disturbing...
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How Data Could Prevent The Next Ferguson
John Lund/Blend Images/CorbisThe deaths of Oscar Grant III, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and scores of others at the hands of law enforcement over the past few years have shaken Americans’ faith in...
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New Computer Program Can Predict How Things Will Move, Just Like Us
MIT CSAILOne of these things is not like the otherAn experimental setup used to train a computer to understand basic physics.To some extent, we humans are pretty good at predicting the future. Not the...
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The U.S. Government Is Betting $28 Million That We Can Replicate The Brain
HarvardA partial digital reconstruction of the brain previously made by Harvard.We've talkeda lotabout makinga computer thatworks likethe mammalian brain.The U.S. government is now betting $28 million...
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How To Change The World With Curiosity
Science Marcia McNutt talks about the power and importance of discovery The incoming president of the National Academy of Sciences, Marcia McNutt, arrives at the U.S. advisory agency at a crucial...
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Machines Get A Little Better At Lip Reading
Technology Watch what you say A new machine-learning algorithm improves the accuracy of automated lip reading--but it still only gets it right about 25 percent of the time…
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Hack A Teddy Bear To Say Anything
DIY Bringing Teddy Ruxpin back Andrew Langley hacked a Teddy Ruxpin—and so can you.
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Listen To A Musical Organism "Evolve"
Science Artist couple creates music based on biological evolutionary development This artist couple creates music based on biological evolutionary development.
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We May Soon Capture The First Real Image Of A Black Hole
Space Thanks to a new world-spanning algorithm A new algorithm will combine data from future telescopes to image black holes…
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Algorithm Binge Watches TV To Predict Human Behavior
Technology Just another day at The Office Watching TV can be a very educational experience for a computer.
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This Sculpture Was Designed And 3D Printed By An A.I. Artist
Technology And it only took 2.5 million tries An evolutionary algorithm works in conjunction with a deep neural network to create models of three-dimensional objects, which are then 3D printed.
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'Interactive Dynamic Video' Could Make Pokémon Go Even More Engaging
Entertainment The future of augmented reality Sure, Pokémon Go has taken over the world (and our website), but what comes next?
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Machine Learning Is Helping Us Find The Genetics Of Autism
Health Princeton researchers are working smarter, not harder Machine Learning Unlocks Potential Autism-Causing Genes…
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