AI & RoboticsNews

AI can detect COVID-19 by listening to your coughs

November 26, 2020
It’s easy to be worried when you cough these days — is it COVID-19, or are you just clearing your throat? You might get a clearer answer soon. MIT researchers have developed AI that can recognize forced coughing from people who have COVID-19, even if they’re otherwise asymptomatic. The trick was to develop a slew of neural networks that can distinguish subtle changes indicative of the novel…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Grimes and Endel made an AI-powered lullaby

November 26, 2020
Synth-pop artist and Cyberpunk 2077 cast member Grimes has teamed up with mood music startup Endel to create an AI-powered soundscape designed to help you drift off. “AI Lullaby” blends vocals and original music from Grimes with personalized sounds that an algorithm in real-time.  Grimes told the New York Times she was partly inspired to work on the project while seeking “a better…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Watch this cargo electric bicycle ambulance in action slicing through traffic

November 26, 2020
Bicycles, and especially e-bikes, are often the quickest way to cut through urban traffic. And so it makes perfect sense to see them being transformed into ambulance e-bikes for first responders. That’s exactly what a team at the tech firm Wunderman Thompson Paris set out to do when they designed their own electric bicycle ambulance. They partnered with the French e-mobility company Ecox…
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MobileNews

How to enable split-screen multitasking in Android 11 [Video]

November 26, 2020
If you have a large display on your smartphone, did you know you can enter split-screen for most of your apps and even some games? The split-screen process changed with Android Pie and has remained the same through to Android 11 now that gestures are the main UI input method. When the feature was first introduced back in older versions of Android, the method was relatively simple thanks to the…
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