Tag Archives: research
Ford shares a year’s worth of self-driving car data
Twitter unlocks tools to help researchers study COVID-19 tweets
Microsoft blood bot helps recovered COVID-19 patients donate plasma
IBM shares AI tools to better understand and treat COVID-19
Intel’s neuromorphic chip learns to ‘smell’ 10 hazardous chemicals
Of all the senses, scent is a particularly difficult one to teach AI, but that doesn't stop researchers from trying. Most recently, researchers from Intel and Cornell University trained a neuromorphic chip to learn and recognize the scents of 10 haza...
Recommended Reading: Dead Sea Scroll fragments in DC are fakes
Exclusive: 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries
Michael Greshko
National Geographic
When the Museum of the Bible opened in Washington, DC in 2017, it funded a research project that examined pieces of what was thought to...
Microsoft appoints its first-ever chief scientific officer
For the first in its history, there's a chief scientific officer at Microsoft. This week, the company appointed Eric Horvitz to the role as part of a broader reorganization following the departure of a key executive in February.
Researchers: Facebook’s ad transparency tools are ‘easy to evade’
Facebook has long touted its rules requiring transparency in political advertising as one of the company's most important policy changes following Russian interference in the 2016 election. But new research suggests the company's ad rules may not be...
YouTube’s tweaks to recommend fewer conspiracy videos seem to be working
One of the most important aspects of YouTube is its recommendation engine, as the vast majority of views and watch time come from suggested content, rather than direct traffic. The platform does a good job of determining which videos would be relevan...