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New tool summarizes presentation videos into searchable, structured PDF documents
PV2DOC organizes both audio and visual data from presentation videos into structured PDF documents, making the content easier to understand and access. Credit: Associate Professor Hyuk-Yoon Kwon from Seoul National…
Selling your intentions before you know them
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The near future could see AI assistants that forecast and influence our decision-making at an early stage, and sell these developing “intentions” in real-time to companies…
EU universal charger rules come into force
Most devices already use these cables, but Apple was more than a little reluctant. EU rules requiring all new smartphones, tablets and cameras to use the same charger came into…
The Personality Gap Between Singles and the Partnered
Summary: Lifelong singles score lower on life satisfaction and show distinct personality traits compared to those in long-term relationships. Using data from 77,000 Europeans aged 50+, researchers observed that lifelong…
Classical vs. Operant Conditioning: The Brain’s Memory Tug-of-War
Summary: Classical and operant conditioning compete in the brain, preventing simultaneous learning of conflicting actions. Using fruit flies, researchers demonstrated that attempting to teach both types of learning simultaneously results…
Sport produces mountains of high-tech waste—researchers are finding new ways to recycle it
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the early days of the modern Olympics and Paralympics, athletes competed using heavy, non-aerodynamic equipment. The record for throwing a javelin, for instance, has almost…
A comprehensive survey of federated transfer learning: Challenges, methods and applications
The challenges of FTL. Credit: Wei Guo, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xiao Zhang, Yiqi Tong, Jin Dong Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention as a novel distributed machine learning paradigm that…
AI and robots pose new ethical challenges for society
The first book to focus on law, policy, and regulation in human-robot interaction is now available online. Credit: Used with permission from Cambridge University Press, 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) and…
