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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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The technology used in the device includes optical character recognition, machine learning, and Google application programming interfaces. EPICS in IEEE The ability to read under any condition and navigate surroundings OurVision can read text out loud from books and periodicals as well as billboards, posters, and traffic signs.

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Transparency Depends on Digital Breadcrumbs

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An astonishing amount of that data is recorded, stored, analyzed, and shared by media companies looking to pitch you content and ads, retailers aiming to sell you more of what you’ve already bought, and potential distant relatives hitting you up on genealogy sites. The events of that day unfolded on live television watched by millions.

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Tesla owner implants a chip to unlock his car and more

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The chips are used for a variety of purposes such as access control, storing data, lighting up under your skin, or storing cryptocurrencies. The company that put this together literally has its own app store where you can wirelessly install apps into your body with these chips. Credit: Brandon Dalaly.

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

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system does not just deactivate the engine when the car is stationary at a red light; it already deactivates the engine at speeds below 7 km/h (4.4 It is also easy to find addresses by Google search and integrate them into navigation. These settings will be stored in user accounts for individual drivers. The start-stop 2.0

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. The example I used at the time was, I think it was a Google program labeling an image of people playing Frisbee in the park. More context.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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His “As We May Think” article, for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic magazine, envisioned a desktop computer and a “web” of “associative trails” that no less than the founders of Google cite as the inspiration for today’s information science and the Internet.

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City of LA, Xerox introduce multi-modal transportation app for commuters

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Although LA Metro has invested $9-billion investment in new light rail and subway lines, the system now sas fewer boardings than it did three decades ago, when buses were the only option. Xerox is working with its partners to integrate booking and payments into the app so users can coordinate their entire trip with a single click of a button.