Artificial Intelligence

The Download: Recycling clothing, and fish-friendly hydropower

The news: Less than 1% of clothing is recycled. Most of the rest ends up dumped in a landfill or burned. A...

A polyester-dissolving process could make modern clothing recyclable  

Nevertheless, the process could be difficult to scale, says Bryan Vogt, a chemical engineer at Penn State University, who was not involved in...

10 ways to impact business velocity through Azure OpenAI Service

Organizations across industries are leveraging Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot services and capabilities to drive growth, increase productivity, and create value-added experiences. The...

The Download: Listening robots, and Google’s AI emissions

We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At...

A way to let robots learn by listening will make them more useful

Researchers at the Robotics and Embodied AI Lab at Stanford University set out to change that. They first built a system for collecting...

The Download: Mind-controlled prosthetics, and the price of AI training data

What’s new: When someone loses part of a leg, a prosthetic can make it easier to get around. But most prosthetics are...

Microsoft Flight Simulator Releases City Update IX: Northeastern United States

Microsoft Flight Simulator: City Update IX highlights select locations throughout the northeastern United States with updated aerial imagery, new...

New and improved camera inspired by the human eye

A team led by University of Maryland computer scientists invented a camera mechanism that improves how robots see and react to the world...

AI companies are finally being forced to cough up for training data

But there’s a problem. AI companies have pillaged the internet for training data, and many websites and data set owners have started...

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