Makin and colleagues decode speech from neural signals recorded during a preoperative procedure, using an algorithm inspired by machine translation. For one participant reading from a closed set of 50 sentences, decoding accuracy is nearly perfect.

Why You Should Wear a Better Mask The Omicron variant is by far the most infectious variant to date with experts estimating it is two to three times more contagious as the Delta variant. Having ~40% of the population infected by a single pathogen in the span…

A collection of awesome projects, blog posts, books, and talks on quantifying risk - veeral-patel/awesome-risk-quantification

In school we learn there are 360 degrees in a circle, but where did the 360 come from? When it is pointed out that the Babylonians counted to base-60, rather than base-10 as we do, people often ask if there is a connection. The short answer is no. The longer…

The Atari57 suite of games is a long-standing benchmark to gauge agent performance across a wide range of tasks. We’ve developed Agent57, the first deep reinforcement learning agent to obtain a...

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Text Summarization
In this release, we support both abstractive and extractive text summarization.
New Model: UniLM
UniLM is a state of the art model developed by Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). Th...

Courts have struggled to interpret the vague Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Japanese firm reckons new tech is "difficult to operate intuitively" for functions such as air conditioning, moving against growing industry norm

Chris Smalls, an Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center employee, said the company fired him after he led a strike at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, over coronavirus safety conditions.

New Features:

auth package can now provide service level auth

Improvements:

fix logger package to read level from environment
many store fixes
add logging to api errors
improved api gateway rpc ...

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Whether you find it eerie or amusing—this stunning photo of a Japanese snow monkey using an iPhone captures just how much they resemble us humans.