1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (55+ words) A conversational agent that listens not only to what users say but to how they say it has shown in a controlled experiment that it can make guided work in mixed reality feel noticeably more usable and supportive, even though…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (704+ words) Software has an odor problem, at least metaphorically. So-called code smells—structural weaknesses such as oversized classes, duplicated logic, and tangled methods—are early warning signs that a codebase is rotting from within, and they cost the software industry billions…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (91+ words) Digital images have become the default currency of communication, evidence, commerce, and journalism, yet every photograph that travels across an open network is exposed to silent modification. A cropped receipt, a spliced face, a doctored medical scan, or an altered…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (627+ words) Teaching a team of artificial intelligence agents to cooperate has long been one of the most stubborn problems in machine learning. Each agent sees only a fragment of the world, the environment shifts beneath them as they learn, and the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (775+ words) Every time a person checks in at a café, a park, or an airport using a location-based social network, they leave behind two intertwined traces: a social tie to other users and a geographic footprint of where they have been....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (55+ words) Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies on the planet, striking roughly 17 million people each year, yet doctors still miss the mark often enough to matter. In about 13 percent of appendectomies, the removed appendix turns out to…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (68+ words) Depth perception is one of the most fundamental challenges in computer vision, and for robots, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality systems, it is the difference between smooth navigation and costly failure. Deep learning has produced stereo matching networks that achieve…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (55+ words) Federated learning has become one of the most consequential architectures in modern machine learning, allowing hospitals, banks, factories and smartphone networks to train shared models without moving sensitive data off site. Yet the approach has long carried an uncomfortable question:…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (55+ words) Artificial intelligence systems that watch video have become remarkably good at recognizing what they see, but they remain surprisingly poor at understanding why things happen. A research team now reports a new self-supervised framework, called TRACE, that pushes video understanding…...