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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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This article is sponsored by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). And that's only on the commercial end. AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. California State University, Northridge (CSUN).

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Foraging on Public Lands Is Becoming More Limited

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Although most national parks ban commercial foraging, about three-fourths allow people to explore and collect their favorite crops for personal use. Some leading foragers, for both personal and commercial food, say more public lands are being declared off limits, especially in places where wildfires have devastated the forest lands.

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Stress Levels Revealed in Micro-Beads of Sweat

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And sometimes, a person is physically unable to create sufficient sweat volumes to analyze with existing technologies. Reading off a person's glucose and cortisol levels is the goal. The technology, developed by Dallas-based EnLiSense LLC and the University of Texas at Dallas , is promising enough that the U.S.

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AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion

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While the off-the-shelf object detection model could work in this instance with some customization, when it came to measuring the distances between the objects, the NYU researchers had to develop a novel algorithm, which they refer to as a reference-free distance approximation algorithm. “If

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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In the 1990s, he became known for his long-running legal battle against Universal Manufacturing Corp. Often a person must walk across a room to retrieve the remote control unit, and frequently it may be misplaced, which, at best, requires extra time and effort to find.” Eventually, they filed for a U.S. However, there are pitfalls.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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Abbott, a physician as well as a lawyer, is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey’s School of Law. He also is an adjunct assistant professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he wrote The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

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Kenneth Foster: In the context of RF safety, exposure refers to the fields outside the body, while dose refers to energy absorbed within body tissues. I am personally more concerned about possible effects of excessive screen time on child development and privacy issues.” What do you make of these kinds of calls?