AI & Robotics

Lioness has been pioneering sex tech since 2017, but CES 2020 was the first time the company was allowed to exhibit its AI-enabled sex toy at one of the world’s biggest tech shows. The Consumer Technology Association backtracked on its earlier policies and allowed sex-positive sex tech companies to display their wares at CES, which took place earlier this month in Las Vegas. In the health and…

In October 2018, months after a brief reveal, Amazon brought Whisper Mode to select third- and first-party Alexa devices. It expanded the feature to all locales in November 2019, such that all smart home appliances powered by Alexa — the company’s virtual assistant — now respond to whispered speech by whispering back. Amazon was a bit light on the technical details initially, save that…

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. ________________________________________________________________________________________   Most discussions of AI infrastructure start and end with compute hardware — the GPUs, general-purpose CPUs, FPGAs, and tensor processing units responsible for training complex algorithms and making predictions…

Can sensors see behind the corners of obstacles in real time? As it turns out, yes. A study by researchers at Stanford, Rice University, Princeton, and Southern Methodist University published in the journal Optica proposes a system that’s capable of producing around-the-bend images at high resolutions and speeds. It’s able to distinguish the submillimeter details of hidden objects from 1…