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- 'Green pea' galaxy provides insights to early universe evolution
- The way you sound affects your mood
- Will computers ever truly understand what we're saying?
| 'Green pea' galaxy provides insights to early universe evolution Posted: 13 Jan 2016 04:50 PM PST Astronomers gain a new understanding of the re-ionization of the universe by studying a nearby dwarf 'green pea' galaxy. |
| The way you sound affects your mood Posted: 11 Jan 2016 01:26 PM PST Researchers have created a digital audio platform that can modify the emotional tone of people's voices while they are talking, to make them sound happier, sadder or more fearful. New results show that while listening to their altered voices, participants' emotional state change in accordance with the new emotion. |
| Will computers ever truly understand what we're saying? Posted: 11 Jan 2016 10:52 AM PST If you think computers are quickly approaching true human communication, think again. Computers like Siri often get confused because they judge meaning by looking at a word's statistical regularity. This is unlike humans, for whom context is more important than the word or signal, according to a researcher who invented a communication game allowing only nonverbal cues, and used it to pinpoint regions of the brain where mutual understanding takes place. |
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