Google has discontinued selling its artificial intelligence-powered camera device called'Clips'. The device, which was launched in 2017 at a price of $249, uses machine learning to learn and recognise faces and automatically records short motion images of things it finds "interesting". Google said it has begun integrating'Clips' technology into the'Photobooth' feature starting with its Pixel 3.

The lack of time affects both preflight training for, and in-flight operation of, the experiment. This difficulty with time is currently true with the Space Shuttle Program and will persist with the advent of Space Station Freedom operations. Another key factor in space experimentation is the use of fixed experiment protocols. This major constraint severely limits the ability of an earthbound scientist to change the course of an experiment even when the data and current situation clearly indicate that it would be scientifically more valuable to do so. The goal is to help the astronaut become a scientific collaborator with the ground-based principal investigator who designed the experiment.

Artificial intelligence can accurately identify objects in an image or recognize words uttered by a human, but its algorithms don't work the same way as the human brain--and that means that they can be spoofed in ways that humans can't. New Scientist reports that researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and Facebook's AI team have shown that it's possible to subtly tweak audio clips so that a human understands them as normal but a voice-recognition AI hears something totally different. The approach works by adding a quiet layer of noise to a sound clip that contains distinctive patterns a neural network will associate with other words. The team applied its new algorithm, called Houdini, to a series of sound clips, which it then ran through Google Voice to have them transcribed. Her bearing was graceful and animated she led her son by the hand and before her walked two maids with wax lights and silver candlesticks.

A computer vision system has been developed that detects suspicious behaviour in CCTV footage as it happens. Researchers involved in the P-REACT project, which is the work of a consortium of European companies and organisations and is partly funded by a grant from the European Commission, say the surveillance technology could help catch criminals in the act and relieve police of "digital evidence overload" by highlighting video clips most likely to be relevant to investigations. "If a camera at a gas station picks up suspicious activity, the video footage will be sent to the cloud, people at the gas station will be alerted, and nearby cameras will be told to look out for the criminals too," says project coordinator Juan Arraiza at Vicomtech, a research foundation in San Sebastian, Spain. Its algorithms have been trained on sample scenes of people fighting, chasing someone or snatching a bag.