Making a movie with a drone is quite tasking. First of all, it requires skill to fly the expensive pieces of equipment smoothly without any crashes. Once you have mastered flying, there care panning speeds, camera angles, trajectories and flight…
Introducing Therapeutic Chatbot, Woebot
New app called ‘Woebot’ acts in place of a therapist as a therapeutic chatbot. It presents itself as an automated therapist when finding a real one seem financially or otherwise impossible. The need for therapists is growing exponentially. According to…
Massive Manipulation of Twitter Trends Discovered
New EPFL research focused on Turkey from the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory, a part of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences discovered a vulnerability in the algorithm which decides Twitter Trending Topics (it doesn’t take deletions into account). This…
New AI Tool Helps Manage COVID-19
New Artificial Intelligence technology developed by researchers at Waterloo Engineering can assess the severity of COID-19 cases with a high rate of accuracy. This research is part of a COVID-Net open-source initiative launched over a year ago. It consists of…
Smart Application to Detect Stress Levels of Mental Health
Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a smart-device based digital platform which can monitor hyperarousal, a key sign of psychiatric distress. The objective is to aid patients manage their mental wellness. According to the researchers, this advanced technology can…
Computers vs Archaeologists: Who is better at sorting through the past?
An important part of an archaeologist’s job is the wearisome process of categorizing shards of pottery into subtypes. ‘It’s kind of like looking at a photograph of Elvis Presley and looking at a photo of an impersonator,’ said Christian Downum,…