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May 12, 2021
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May

Podcast: In Machines We Trust – What’s in a voice

May 12, 2021
Apple Podcasts Preview https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-in-a-voice/id1523584878?i=1000518953755 And we speak with a father who thinks scam artists may have used artificial intelligence to capture the essence of his son’s voice. pic.twitter.com/eAPVMdOZfg— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) May 11, 2021 Synthetic voice technologies are increasingly passing as human. But today’s voice assistants are still a far cry from the hyper-intelligent thinking...
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May

FROM INGENUITY TO THOMAS PESQUET: WHICH FREQUENCIES ARE USED FROM SPACE?

May 12, 2021
Source: ANFR https://www.anfr.fr/toutes-les-actualites/actualites/dingenuity-a-thomas-pesquet-quelles-frequences-sont-utilisees-depuis-lespace/ Auto-translated from French 05/12/2021 In recent weeks, the conquest of space has occupied the news a lot with the success of the flight of the first drone on Mars, Ingenuity and the arrival of the French astronaut Thomas Pesquet in the international space station where he will stay 6 months. This media interest...
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May

Book: When Cell Phone Towers Cosplay as Trees

May 12, 2021
Source: https://hyperallergic.com/643295/annette-lemay-burke-fauxliage-cell-phone-towers/ Photographer Annette LeMay Burke turns her eye to one of the latest incursions on the visual landscape: cell phone towers cosplaying as trees. https://t.co/u56Xdyrj02— hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) May 11, 2021 In 66 photographs, Annette LeMay Burke explores the giant fake trees hosting crow’s nests of cellular transmitters. by Sarah Rose Sharp May 10, 2021 As...
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May

Optically Improved Mitochondrial Function Redeems Aged Human Visual Decline

May 12, 2021
Harpreet Shinhmar, MSc, Manjot Grewal, BSc, Sobha Sivaprasad, MBBS, PhD, Chris Hogg, Victor Chong, MBBS, PhD, Magella Neveu, PhD, Glen Jeffery, DPhil, Optically Improved Mitochondrial Function Redeems Aged Human Visual Decline, The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Volume 75, Issue 9, September 2020, Pages e49–e52, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaa155 Abstract The age spectrum of human populations is shifting toward the...
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BERENIS – The Swiss expert group on electromagnetic fields and non-ionising radiation Newsletter Nr. 25 / May 2021

May 12, 2021,
Summaries and assessments of selected studies In the period from mid of July to mid of October 2020, 108 new publications have been identified, and eight of these were discussed in depth by BERENIS. Based on the selection criteria, three of these publications were selected as the most relevant ones. Their summaries and assessments are...
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