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Making Machines That Can Listen
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
Digital Tools Help Hydropower Plants Respect Nature While Generating Energy
Digital models and sensors help hydropower plants balance energy production with the health of the rivers they depend on.
Digital models and sensors help hydropower plants balance energy production with the health of the rivers they depend on.
How Camera-Shy Men Can Build a Credible Brand With AI
— For many men, “build your personal brand” sounds less like useful career advice and more like a demand to perform. Post a confident video. Share a strong opinion. Smile naturally on command. Turn every working day into public content. That approach fits some people. It can be exhausting for anyone who dislikes being photographed,…
How Can an AI Voice Generator Help Men Build Side Projects in 2026?
— Plenty of men carry an idea around for years: a podcast about woodworking, a YouTube channel on personal finance, a short course on fixing up old motorcycles. What usually stops them isn’t a lack of knowledge. It’s time, confidence on the mic, and the grind of recording the same line ten times. AI voice…
What the Research Actually Says About AI and Cognitive Decline
— Ask anyone who has relied on turn-by-turn directions for a few years to sketch a map of their own neighborhood, and the gaps tend to show up quickly. Researchers have a name for this habit of handing mental work to an outside tool. They call it cognitive offloading, and decades of studies on GPS…
Best Practices for Creating Desk Concert Videos Across Social Feeds with Outstanding Tiny Desk AI
— Most social media users treat stylized performance filters like instant lottery tickets: upload an arbitrary selfie, press render, and hope the visual algorithms figure out the rest. When the finished clip returns with warped facial contours, unnatural mouth movements, or jittery cuts during the first vocal verse, creators blame the underlying model instead of…
Building an Early Warning System for Europe’s Critical Raw Materials
From batteries to wind turbines, European industry depends on materials sourced from around the world. EU-funded researchers are mapping these complex supply chains to spot potential disruptions before they become shortages.
From batteries to wind turbines, European industry depends on materials sourced from around the world. EU-funded researchers are mapping these complex supply chains to spot potential disruptions before they become shortages.
How Mobile-First AI Tools Are Changing the Way Entrepreneurs Plan a Business
— The smartphone has spent the past decade absorbing functions that once required separate devices, software, or even a physical office. For entrepreneurs, that progression has moved well beyond email and messaging. Banking, payments, document review, customer communication, research, analytics, scheduling, project management, and increasingly AI-assisted work can now happen from the same device. AI…
Why Human-Centered Organizations Need Smarter Digital Tools
— A case manager should not have to choose between listening carefully to a parent in crisis and racing through duplicate data entry before a grant report is due. Yet that tradeoff is common in social services, where teams are asked to be relational, compliant, trauma-informed, measurable, collaborative, and fast, often with systems that were…
Deleting AI Chats May Not Erase Every Trace
Deleting a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant may not erase everything the assistant remembers.
Deleting a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant may not erase everything the assistant remembers.
Brains Get Ready for Processing Faces Well Before Birth
New research has found that the functional brain network involved in processing faces in adults can be observed as early as the third trimester of pregnancy.
New research has found that the functional brain network involved in processing faces in adults can be observed as early as the third trimester of pregnancy.
How to Convert Videos to MP4 and Cut Unwanted Parts Before Sharing Online
— Sharing videos online has become part of everyday digital communication. People upload travel clips, family moments, product demonstrations, tutorials, and social media content every day. However, before a video reaches its audience, there are often a few problems to solve. A video may be too long, saved in the wrong format, too large to…
ChatGPT Ads Are Live. Here’s Why LLM Visibility Tracking Matters More, Not Less
Ads inside ChatGPT and Google AI Mode don't buy citations. How to set up LLM visibility tracking that separates paid placement from earned AI presence.
— For about two years, the pitch for AI visibility work went like this: AI answers can’t be bought, so the only way in is to earn it. Then OpenAI started testing ads inside ChatGPT in February 2026, first for US users on the Free and Go tiers. Google had already been placing ads inside…
How Does AI Video Generation Work in 2026, and What Can You Actually Do With It?
Curious how AI video generation works in 2026? Learn how text-to-video and image-to-video tools turn ideas into clips, plus tips for getting better results.
— Not long ago, making a short video meant a camera, lighting, editing software and a fair amount of patience. In 2026, AI video generation has changed that equation. With a written prompt or a single still image, anyone can now produce a moving clip in minutes, and the results are good enough for social…
Q&A: How AI Came to Model the “Messy” Human Mind
Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.
Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.