Conversational Video AI—Teaching Machines The Art Of Being Human

AI agents can now see your face, hear your tone and respond in real time. Teaching machines the art of being human means going far beyond surface mimicry.
Engadget

Razer's Project Madison concept chair has reactive lighting, immersive audio and multi-zone haptics

Razer is once again thinking big about what a gaming chair can do, and its concept for CES 2026 isn't just a chair but an entire multisensory experience to match whatever's happening on-screen. The ...
IEEE

Enhancing Forensic Audio Transcription with Neural Network-Based Speaker Diarization and Gender Classification

Abstract: Forensic audio transcription is often compromised by low-quality recordings, where indistinct speech can hinder the accuracy of conventional Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. This ...
IEEE

Depression Analysis and Detection Using Machine Learning: Incorporating Gender Differences in a Comparative Study

Abstract: Depression is a significant mental health problem and presents a challenge for the machine learning field in the detection of this illness. This study explores automated depression ...
The New York Times

The Ruling About Passports Isn’t About ID. It’s About Social Control.

At Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv a few weeks ago, about to fly back to New York, I handed my passport to two young border officers. One of them examined it and handed it to the other with a puzzled ...
GitHub

MLP Gender Classification from Speech

A deep learning project that trains a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) to classify speaker gender from voice audio using MFCC features. Input Layer (13×40 MFCC matrix) ↓ Flatten Layer (520 neurons) ↓ ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Making Machine Learning Safer in High-Stakes Settings

Machine learning, a key enabler of artificial intelligence, is increasingly used for applications like self-driving cars, medical devices, and advanced robots that work near humans — all contexts ...
Frontiers

Listening to stars: audio-inspired multimodal learning for star classification

Spectroscopic analysis is essential in modern astronomy, as spectra encode a wealth of physical information through their characteristic features, such as absorption and emission lines. These spectral ...
Morningstar

The Washing Machine Project, Supported by Whirlpool Foundation, Releases Report on the Global Laundry Divide

A Global Problem: The research suggests that up to 50% of the world's population, around 4 billion people, rely on washing clothes by hand. This burden is most concentrated in low and middle income ...
Queerty

Nancy Mace blows a gasket after learning filler & boob jobs count as gender affirming care

US Representative Sara Jacobs (D-Calif) just showed up for trans people and ripped Nancy Mace a new one in one fell swoop—and that’s something to be celebrated. This morning on the House floor, Jacobs ...
Geeky Gadgets

Essential Machine Learning Skills to Learn for Career Growth in 2025

What if the skills you choose to learn today could determine your career trajectory in 2025? The field of machine learning is evolving at a breakneck pace, and with it comes a growing demand for ...