Technology

Mycroft Mark II- Artificial Intelligence Goes Open Source In A Voice Enabled Assistant

If you have used voice-enabled speaker devices like the Amazon Echo, which for some reason goes by Alexa rather than Echo, you've noticed there are not a lot of great apps and most of them do very narrow things. They are more like public relations too ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2018 - 4:19pm

Why Content Farms Succeed: How-To Articles Beat Posts About Scientific Developments

A Pew Research Center analysis of science-related pages on Facebook found that people are most likely to encounter "how-to" tips or advertisements rather than stories about scientific discoveries. The reason is simple. Facebook shows people what ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2018 - 9:22am

The Food Waste Solution That You Might Not Know You Are Using

Do you buy bagged bread in the grocery store?   There are usually several options including bread made with whole grains or containing several different kinds of grain.  You have probably noticed that such breads stay nice and soft for quite a while.   So ...

Article - Steve Savage - Apr 3 2018 - 11:53am

Interpreting The Predictions Of Deep Neural Networks

CERN has equipped itself with an inter-experimental working group on Machine Learning since a couple of years. Besides organizing monthly meetings and other activities fostering the dissemination of knowledge and active research on the topic, the group hol ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 10 2018 - 9:45am

Twitter Is The Place To Go For Fake News

If you want to spread fake news, and rarely have it corrected, Twitter is the best way to go, according to a new analysis. Experience does not help. Instead, the social media platform’s most active users are complicit in detecting and spreading falsehoods, ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2018 - 10:18am

70 Years Ago, The Polaroid Camera Came To Market- And A Science Boom Followed

It probably happens every minute of the day: A little girl demands to see the photo her parent has just taken of her. Today, thanks to smartphones and other digital cameras, we can see snapshots immediately, whether we want to or not. But in 1944 when 3-y ...

Article - The Conversation - May 20 2018 - 8:35am

Focused Ultrasound To Treat 'Giggling' Epilepsy- 'Grey's Anatomy' Shows Off Cutting Edge Science

Epilepsy is no laughing matter- except for one rare form, caused by hypothalamic hamartomas, benign masses in the brain that can cause epilepsy symptoms, unintentional giggling seizures and even early puberty. This actual science appeared in the medical me ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2018 - 8:33am

AI May Improve Medical Diagnostics- But The Limit Is Algorithms

A.I.- artificial intelligence- has seen a resurgence of buzzword activity. It's the Internet of Things for 2018. But if the limitation is the algorithm underneath, it's not really AI. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2018 - 10:59am

Hepatitis B In Africa Might Be Solved With A $20 Test

Sub-Saharan Africa has around 80 million people infected with hepatitis B, a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus, but it infects around 250 million people worldwide. It can be a mild illness lasting a few weeks or a serious, lifelong condition ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2018 - 6:00am

A Hoax Academic Paper About How Politicians Wipe Their Butts Was Published- And I Did It

I had what seemed like rather a good idea a few weeks back. Building on some prominent findings in social psychology, I hypothesized that politicians on the right would wipe their bum with their left hand; and that politicians on the left would wipe with ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 22 2018 - 6:00am