carnegie mellon university
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Twitter Hasn’t Been ‘Enshittified’, It Always Sucked
Twitter is officially dead. Since Elon Musk’s $US44 billion acquisition of it late last year, people have been saying it’s dead or dying or will die. Musk ended the argument when he renamed the app “X.” And now, so many people seem to pine for the days when Twitter was good. But let me tell…
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Researchers Find That Radar Can Be Used to Detect a Nail in a Tyre Long Before It Goes Flat
Your car’s dashboard is a smorgasbord of information when it comes to the health and performance of your vehicle. But the one thing it can’t warn drivers about is when the tread on their tyres has worn out. It’s a safety risk that researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are focusing on with a new real-time…
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This Smart Speaker Prototype Can Throw Its Voice Like A Ventriloquist
If you get carried away with setting up helpful reminders, eventually you’ll get tired of your smart speaker’s endless nagging and will start ignoring it. But what if instead of Siri or Alexa reminding you to water the plants or that your Pop Tarts are ready, it sounded like your ficus or your toaster was…
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Researchers Taught Autonomous Camera Drones To Film Like A Hollywood Director
Skydio was one of the first companies to create a flying drone that can autonomously track, follow and frame the action, but it was more concerned about not crashing than aesthetics. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are taking the idea one step further by teaching camera drones how to not only fly safely but also…