Supermarket scanner recognizes objects (via KurzweilAI)
The great American naturalist Aldo Leopold once wrote that he was glad he would not be young in a future without wilderness. Indeed, he may not have been thrilled to know the sonic environment he enjoyed each day is gone; the sound of highways now mingles with birdsong, which itself has changed with the redistribution of species. But he took such detailed and copious field notes that we can recreate that environment, hearing the sounds of nature as Leopold himself would have.
This “resurrected soundscape” is the first sonic setting to be recreated from real data, rather than from informed imagination, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Imagine being able to dump your Minecraft creations into the real world for other people to find. 13th Lab’s Minecraft Reality app for iOS, developed by Mojang, lets you do just that.
How bees decide what to be: Reversible ‘epigenetic’ marks linked to behavior patterns (via KurzweilAI)
