Category: 3. Tech

What’s new: Imagine going for dinner with a group of friends who switch in and out of different languages you don’t speak, but still being able to understand what they’re saying. This scenario is the inspiration for a new AI headphone…

Spatial Speech Translation consists of two AI models, the first of which divides the space surrounding the person wearing the headphones into small regions and uses a neural network to search for potential speakers and pinpoint their direction. 

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The parasite is best known for changing the behavior of rodents in ways that make them easier prey—an infection seems to make mice permanently lose their fear of cats. Research in humans is nowhere near conclusive, but some studies have linked…

Doctors often start exams with the so-called “eyeball test” – a snap judgment about whether the patient appears older or younger than their age, which can influence key medical decisions.

That intuitive assessment may soon get an AI…

Believe it or not, indoor skydiving has its own international competition. Hosted by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the 5th…

Engineers have harnessed the physics behind the flailing tube men to power a tiny soft “robot” capable of walking, hopping, and swimming. Plus…

A Slovakian startup working to make the age-old dream of flying cars a reality says it has a new prototype that could ship as early as 2026. Klein Vision,…

Why doesn’t our solar system have sub-Neptune exoplanets and what can they teach us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes…

It can be difficult to keep up with all the new artificial intelligence tools. You may even have access to numerous AI features and resources that you…

It’s not easy being one of Silicon Valley’s favorite benchmarks. 

SWE-Bench (pronounced “swee bench”) launched in November 2024 as a way to evaluate an AI model’s coding skill. It has since quickly become one of the most popular…