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Gloves Translate Sign Language Into Auditory Speech 78

Zothecula writes about some pretty cool sensor gloves. From the article: "Since beginning in 2003, the Microsoft Imagine Cup has tasked students the world over with developing technology aimed at solving real-world problems. In this, its 10th year, students were asked to build their project around a specific Millennium Development Goal ... The winners have just been announced ... [and winning] first place (and US$25,000) in the Software Design category was the Ukraine's quadSquad with their EnableTalk gloves that translate sign language into speech in real time."
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Submission + - Google Develops Cat-liking AI (nytimes.com)

bannable writes: Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain.

Andrew Y. Ng, a Stanford computer scientist, is cautiously optimistic about neural networks.
There Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Internet to learn on its own.

Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats.

Submission + - Lonesome George is dead at 100. (canoe.ca) 1

camperdave writes: Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said. He was thought to be about 100 years old.

Comment Re:Wow. (Score 1) 578

I'm normally against DHS and TSA, but from what I've read they are not changing what they do at all, and that these stops were common for a very long time. The only change is that DHS is involved instead of just highway patrol, and that drivers are being asked to report "see something say something" which is a silly slogan.

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