A smart speaker can be used to locate you within a room, with no prior knowledge of room shape, according to a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign research team. It also, at lease partially, maps the room. It uses the microphone array in the speaker, an Alexa in this case, to provide data for an algorithm that identifies direct and ...
The UK Parliament’s Committee on Standards in Public Life has warned of the potential for obscure and biased decision-making as artificial intelligence is used by the public sector, in a report on artificial intelligence and its impact on public standards. It sees no need for a Government AI regulator, but recommends (detail below) that government ensure high standards of conduct are upheld. “Artificial ...
Friends and I were chatting this weekend. Should I change from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free? asked one. My response was: leave it a while until bugs appear and are ironed out. Helpful, but nothing like as helpful as another response, which was that Microsoft is collecting an awful lot of data from any computer that has Windows 10. ...
It is possible to simultaneously adjust the brightness and colour temperature of light passing through a window, as well as switch from transparent-clear to milky-translucent with 90% transmision for privacy. So claims a consortium of Hewlett Packard, the University of Cincinnati, and EMD/Merck Research Labs, which has patented the technology. “A window could independently control both visible light and infra-red ...
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