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Skype is dead. What now?This post was originally published on this site

In the dim light of the lab, friends, family, and strangers watched the image of a pianist playing for them, the pianist’s fingers projected onto the moving keys of a real grand piano that filled […]

Over the last five years, the use of highly personalized artificial intelligence chatbots—called companion chatbots—designed to act as friends, therapists or even romantic partners has skyrocketed to more than a billion users worldwide. While there […]

A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo have created a method that makes virtual reality (VR) more accessible to people with mobility limitations.This post was originally published on this site

Almost 80% of U.K. adults support national security agencies collecting and processing personal data to investigate terrorism and serious crime, according to new research by the Center for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS) at The […]

It’s a little past 10 a.m. and the heat is already blazing on the outskirts of the Western Indian city of Ahmedabad.This post was originally published on this site

Doom-scrolling, instinctively clicking on ad-based notifications or getting sucked into targeted content—all of these distractions can disrupt focus, increase screen time and ultimately make someone forget why they intended to log on to a social […]

The COVID-19 pandemic forced hundreds of daycare providers across the Bay Area to shut down, creating a “childcare desert.” That shortage inspired entrepreneur Gretchen Salyer to launch June Care, a platform that connects families with […]

In the dynamic world of aviation maintenance, precision, quickness, and meticulous documentation are essential. Maribeth Gandy Coleman, director of research and a Regents’ Researcher in Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), has been […]

At a time when we run ourselves ragged to meet society’s expectations of productivity, performance and time optimization, is it right that our robot vacuum cleaners and other smart appliances should sit idle for most […]