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A new, high-performance brain-computer interface (BCI) can be rapidly implanted through a minimally invasive procedure. The ...

Bridging communication gaps between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals is an important challenge in assistive ...

Twenty young Rwandans with visual and hearing impairments have graduated as certified coders under Rwanda Assistive Technology Access’s first-ever training cohort. The graduation ceremony, held at the ...

With the current mania for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is much anguish about AI replacing jobs. Many university lecturers despair that the pinnacle of education, the ability of a ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

Scientists at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an AI-powered “co-pilot” to dramatically improve assistive devices for people with paralysis. The research, conducted in ...

There's no doubt that a standard white cane can be quite helpful, but it isn't all that … interactive. The Glide device certainly appears to be, however, as it verbally and physically guides blind ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Margaret Mitchell is a researcher focused on machine learning (ML) and ethics-informed AI development in tech. She has published over 100 papers on natural language generation, assistive technology, ...

Japan has switched on the first quantum computer that has been designed and built with components from the country. The system is now ready to take on workloads from its base at the University of ...