Microsoft Teams AI Feature Tells You Who is Enjoying The Call the Most
Microsoft has created a new artificial intelligence tool that will inform Teams users if participants are involved with meeting. The AI, dubbed AffectiveSpotlight, can identify participants in a video call and uses a neural network to detect emotions such as sadness,
Scientists have created AI technology that can detect how someone is feeling
A team of scientists, led by Yang Hao at Queen Mary University, has developed an AI called neural network to detect human emotions. According to the paper published in the online journal PLOSE ONE, the tech uses radio waves to pick
AI ‘doctor’s assistant’ among projects given £20m
The British government has awarded £20m to fund artificial intelligence projects such as a computerised system that advises doctors on the best treatment to give patients. As part of the Turing fellowship scheme, the money will be shared between 15 AI
Airpeak: Sony’s new AI robotics drone division
The field of AI robotics has been recently joined by Sony’s latest division, Airpeak, who’s focus will be on next generation drones. There has been a decline in drone popularity in recent years, mostly due to increasing restrictions in many countries
Walmart to start delivering COVID-19 test kits by drone in El Paso
Walmart is teaming up with several partners to use drones to deliver COVID-19 test kits to homes in Texas. El Paso is one of the cities that will get a pilot program. The El Paso Walmart Supercentre will launch drone deliveries
This self-driving ferry in Norway aims to revolutionise public transport
In the era of the climate crisis, Norway has taken on the challenge of pioneering an electric, self-driving water taxi that hopes to revolutionise urban public transport. The small, carbon neutral water taxis can be summoned by customers at the
Ocado purchases two robotics firms to boost its grocery picking and packing capabilities
Looking to boost efficiency in its warehouses, UK technology firm Ocado has acquired two US robotics startups. Kindred Systems, based in San Francisco, was purchased for $262m and Haddington Dynamics, based in Las Vegas, was purchased for $25m. The aim
How artificial intelligence is changing the beauty industry
Creator of computer vision tool, Nudemeter, Atima Lui is on a mission to help all people of colour find a perfect skin tone shade match for their cosmetics. In 2017, Rihanna introduced her groundbreaking Fenty Beauty line with 40 shades of
Scientists are using AI to map out every tree on earth
For the first time ever, 1.8 billion individual tree canopies have been mapped out by scientists, across millions of kilometres of the Sahel and Sahara regions of West Africa. Using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers analysed a huge database of satellite images,
New AI from Microsoft will auto-caption images for the visually impaired
Microsoft has created a new artificial intelligence (AI) that will automatically caption images in emails and documents for the visually impaired. Using VIsual VOcabulary (VIVO), the machine learns a visual vocabulary by controlling large amounts of paired image-tag data. The AI