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Researchers achieve HD video streaming at 10,000 times lower power

Engineers have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn’t need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips power-hungry components and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human […]

Published on April 19, 2018

In A Puerto Rican Mountain Town, Hope Ebbs And Health Suffers

CASTAÑER, Puerto Rico — Helicopters from the power company buzz across the skies of this picturesque valley, ferrying electrical poles on long wires to workers standing on steep hillsides. The people of Castañer, an isolated village in Puerto Rico’s central mountains, watch warily. Crews have come and gone, and people living along the mountain roads […]

Published on April 19, 2018

We can recognize speakers only from how faces move when talking

Results of a new study by psychologists and speech scientists should help to settle a long-standing disagreement among cognitive psychologists about the information we use to recognize people speaking to us. The study shows that listeners can use visual dynamic features to learn to recognize who is talking. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David […]

Published on April 18, 2018