A new survey done by image authenticity app TRUEPIC revealed Thursday said 93 percent of Americans believe that online photos have been edited. Over the past two decades, content has become more visually available and more people follow visual content such as images and videos. At the same time, it is also a fact many, if not most, of the photos posted online have been subjected to some level of editing. On social media and dating sites, this might have been done for making a person appear more visually attractive and vibrant and engaging to the other people. But it seems to be having the opposite effect.

Our Western diet is famously bad for the circulatory system, but for a long time, people thought the damage stopped there. Then around 10 years ago, Terry Davidson, a behavioral neuroscientist, wondered whether our modern eating habits might also affect our brains. To test it out, he fed lab rats a diet high in saturated fats and sugars. He found that the animals had problems learning various memory tasks for which they'd get rewards. Their difficulties were probably linked to changes in the way blood reaches a portion of the brain called the hippocampus.

Google Assistant on the iPhone was the most understated announcement at the Google IO keynote, but it's a game changer for the future of your smartphone. It's Google's voice assistant that's crossing the Android-iOS divide, and it's doing more than just trying to convert Siri users to the Google campus. The new Apple-flavored Google Assistant isn't perfect, but there are five important things you should know about before downloading the new app. The first thing I thought of when Google Assistant for iPhone launched was not that they're poaching Siri users, but making Android machine learning smarter. Siri is (and probably always will be) limited to iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches.

Smartphone chipsets have evolved drastically in the last decade. Major advances in smartphone technology such as facial recognition, performance improvements and mapping are based on the chipset evolution. Since they bring so much functionality to smartphones, what if the chips could be planted into the human brain? A new venture by smartphone chipmaker ARM and Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) at the University of Washington plans to develop a "brain-implantable system-on-chip (SoC)" for bi-directional brain-computer interfaces to treat neurogenerative disorders". Essentially the company wants to develop smartphone style chipsets, which can be implanted into your brain and help overcome neural diseases such as Parkinson's. Psychedelics Boost Brain's Signal Diversity, Scans Reveal "ARM's strong expertise in power-efficient microprocessors compliments the CSNE's work in computational neuroscience and brain-computer interfacing, and we expect the partnership to lead to advances in not only medical technology but other applications as well, such as consumer electronics," Dr. Scott Ransom, CSNE's director of industry relations and innovation said in the press release Tuesday.

Rocker Chris Cornell, who gained fame as the lead singer of the bands Soundgarden and later Audioslave, has died at age 52, according to his representative. Cornell, who had been on tour, died Wednesday night in Detroit, Brian Bumbery said in a statement to The Associated Press. Bumbery called the death "sudden and unexpected" and said his wife and family were shocked by it. The statement said the family would be working closely with the medical examiner to determine the cause and asked for privacy. With his powerful, nearly four-octave vocal range, Cornell was one of the leading voices of the 1990s grunge movement with Soundgarden, which emerged as one of the biggest bands out of Seattle's emerging music scene, joining the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains.

At Google's 2017 I/O keynote today, CEO Sundar Pichai introduced new products and shared more information about the company's "AI first" future. Here's a running list of what happened that matters. Google is rethinking "all" of its products for an AI-first world. That's the high-level promise from Pichai, and the change Google must successfully navigate to continue its dominance. Examples: Google Search now ranks differently using machine learning, Google Maps Street View automatically recognizes signs, video calling uses machine learning for low-bandwidth situations, etc. Google can now use your camera as an input device.

When Tesla bought a decommissioned car factory in Fremont, California, Elon Musk transformed the old-fashioned, unionized plant into a much-vaunted "factory of the future", where giant robots named after X-Men shape and fold sheets of metal inside a gleaming white mecca of advanced manufacturing. The appetite for Musk's electric cars, and his promise to disrupt the carbon-reliant automobile industry, has helped Tesla's value exceed that of both Ford and, briefly, General Motors (GM). But some of the human workers who share the factory with their robotic counterparts complain of grueling work pressure they attribute to Musk's aggressive production goals, and sometimes life-changing injuries. Ambulances have been called more than 100 times since 2014 for workers experiencing fainting spells, dizziness, seizures, abnormal breathing and chest pains, according to incident reports obtained by the Guardian. Hundreds more were called for injuries and other medical issues. In a phone interview about the conditions at the factory, which employs some 10,000 workers, the Tesla CEO conceded his workers had been "having a hard time, working long hours, and on hard jobs", but said he cared deeply about their health and wellbeing.

When people work together on a project, they often come to think they've figured out the problems in their own respective spheres. If trouble persists, it's somebody else--engineering, say, or the marketing department--who is screwing up. That "local focus" means finding the best way forward for the overall project is often a struggle. But what if adding artificial intelligence to the conversation, in the form of a computer program called a bot, could actually make people in groups more productive? This is the tantalizing implication of a study published Wednesday in Nature.

I would like to add on to the post. Image processing is a field that has existed on its own longer than machine learning (ie, it predates machine learning decades before), its been taught mainly as a branch of engineering (electrical & electronics) & to some lesser degree also taught in computer science & physics' courses. Its only in the last decade or so, that image processing includes machine learning topics' for image recognition & understanding. The latest edition (3rd) has an added chapter on "Object Recognition" which wasn't available in the 1st & 2nd edition. The last time I passed through my local university bookstore (about a year ago), this textbook is stocked because its still currently a prescribed textbook for final year Electrical engineering courses.

It seemed obvious, at first, that Jade Wu was getting punked. In the fall of 2009, the Cornell University undergraduate had come across a posting for a job in the lab of one of the world's best-known social psychologists. A short while later, she found herself in a conference room, seated alongside several other undergraduate women. "Have you guys heard of extrasensory perception?" Daryl Bem asked the students. While most labs in the psych department were harshly lit with fluorescent ceiling bulbs, Bem's was set up for tranquility. A large tasseled tapestry stretched across one wall, and a cubicle partition was draped with soft, black fabric. It felt like the kind of place where one might stage a séance. "Well, extrasensory perception, also called ESP, is when you can perceive things that are not immediately available in space or time," Bem said. "So, for example, when you can perceive something on the other side of the world, or in a different room, or something that hasn't happened yet." It occurred to Wu that the flyer might have been a trick. What if she and the other women were themselves the subjects of Bem's experiment? What if he were testing whether they'd go along with total nonsense? "I know this sounds kind of out there," Wu remembers Bem saying, "but there is evidence for ESP, and I really believe it. But I don't need you to believe it. It's better if I can say, 'Even my staff don't believe in this.' " As Bem went on, Wu began to feel more at ease. He seemed genuine and kind, and he wasn't trying to convert her to his way of thinking. OK, so maybe there's going to be a you-got-punked moment at the end of this, she thought, but at least this guy will pay me.