One of the more daunting tasks of laundry for many of us is probably making sure we properly sort through the colours and whites. While residing in London, Victoria was amazed by something she found called colour absorber sheets that let her forego that process. In layman terms, colour absorber …
Read More »Researchers propose AI that creates ‘controllable’ videos
How open banking is driving huge innovation Learn how fintechs and forward-thinking FIs are accelerating personalized financial products through data-rich APIs. Register Now Humans at an early age can identify objects and how each object can interact with its environment. For example, when watching videos of sports like tennis and …
Read More »Limited Testing for Children Creates a Covid ‘Blind Spot’
Many coronavirus testing sites do not screen children. One that does, outside Chief Sealth High School in Seattle, swabbed 1-year-old Quentin Brown late last month. Credit…Elaine Thompson/Associated Press When Audrey Blute’s almost 2-year-old son, George, had a runny nose in July, she wanted to do what she felt was responsible: get …
Read More »This S’porean Creates Sustainable, Single-Origin Chocolate Bars With Only Two Ingredients
The single-origin chocolates from Lemuel Chocolate are worlds are apart from the typical chocolate bars we typically see at supermarkets. For one, they consist of only two ingredients — roasted cocoa beans and raw organic cane sugar. They are also sustainably sourced, and handcrafted in an in-house production facility. Chocolatier …
Read More »M’sian Dev Creates A Chrome Extension For Friends To Netflix & Chill Together, Virtually
Nazreen is a software engineer who’s currently in London doing his Masters in Political Philosophy. During the early stages of lockdown, he wanted to watch something on Netflix with his friend, but since they couldn’t meet, they needed a way to watch it online together, in sync. A quick search …
Read More »Zynga creates $25 million fund for promoting diversity education and charities
Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau said in a letter to employees today that the company is creating a $ 25 million to donate money or invest in educational and charitable causes related to diversity and inclusion. The move is part of Zynga’s response to the recent protests against police brutality and …
Read More »Facebook creates shopping data sets to make more humanlike chatbots
Facebook researchers this week introduced Situated Interactive MultiModal Conversations (SIMMC), a novel research direction aimed at training AI chatbots that take actions like showing an object and explaining what it’s made of in response to images, memories of previous interactions, and individual requests. In a technical paper, they detail new …
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