A shop in Japan has enlisted a robot to ensure customers are wearing masks, and practice social distancing to prevent possible third wave of coronavirus infections. Robovie, developed by the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto, is able to pick out customers who aren’t wearing masks and politely ask them to cover up. It can also intervene […]
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Tue 17 November 2020: Machine learning helps to perform various computer vision tasks. However, understanding objects in 3D is still a challenging problem due to the lack of 3D datasets. Recently, researchers published an Objectron dataset consisting of short object-centered video clips. It also includes camera metadata and manually annotated 3D bounding boxes. On November […]
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Mon 16 November 2020: Four astronauts launched into orbit on Sunday in the historic first operational flight for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of NASA’s commercial crew mission. This marks the second-ever crewed mission for Elon Musk’s private space-faring firm SpaceX, after the successful launch and return of NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley with the […]
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Sat 14 October 2020: The latest addition to the Arabic-language broadcast media landscape is ready to go live across the Middle East. Asharq News, a 24/7 multiplatform channel, is a collaboration between the US heavyweight Bloomberg News and the Saudi Research and Marketing Group, publishers of Arab News and the world’s biggest Arabic news outlet, […]
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Sat 14 November 2020: Many called it ‘a listening sensation straight out of a sci-fi movie’ with 3D sound that feels like ‘it’s inside your ears while also in front, above and behind them’. An Israeli technology firm has debuted a new desktop device that beams sound directly to a listener without the need for […]
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Sat 14 November 2020: The Turkish Competition Authority (RK) on Friday slapped Google with TL 196.7 million ($25.6 million) fine for breaching the country’s competition law. Previously, the authority had opened an investigation after a complaint that the tech giant abused its position to give an unfair edge to some companies. The board ruled that […]
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Wed 11 October 2020: Apple has announced the launch of a MacBook Air notebook and a range of other computers that use, for the first time, a microprocessor that has been designed in-house. The new chip, called the M1, is a significant move by the company and marks a shift away from Intel technology that […]
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Sun 08 November 2020: Turkey’s largest defense fair SAHA Expo will start virtually on Monday Daily Sabah reported. Organized by SAHA Istanbul Defence and Aerospace Cluster Association, the 3D virtual event will be held using the XperEXPO, an application developed by Turkish technology firm BITES, an affiliate of defense giant Aselsan. According to the organizer, […]
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Sun 08 November 2020: People suffering from type 2 diabetes are much more likely to develop a cardiovascular disease. This is, of course, very sad and health professionals cannot predict which patients will develop heart conditions and which ones will avoid them. Now scientists from the University of Sydney used machine learning to develop a […]
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Sat 07 November 2020: The right indoor lighting can help set the mood, from a soft romantic glow to bright, stimulating colours. But some materials used for lighting, such as plastics, are not eco-friendly. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano have developed a bio-based, luminescent, water-resistant wood film that could someday be used as cover panels for […]
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