By Eurasia Review

A University of Washington team has developed an artificial intelligence system that lets a user wearing headphones look at a person speaking for three to five seconds and then hear just the enrolled speaker’s voice in real time even as the listener moves around in noisy places and no longer faces the speaker. Pictured is a prototype of the headphone system: binaural microphones attached to off-the-shelf noise canceling headphones. CREDIT: Kiyomi Taguchi/University of Washington

Noise-canceling headphones have gotten very good at creating an auditory blank slate. But allowing certain sounds from a wearer’s environment through the erasure still challenges researchers. The latest edition of Apple’s AirPods Pro, for instance, automatically adjusts sound levels for wearers — sensing when they’re in conversation, for instance — but the user has little control over whom to listen to or when this happens. Continue reading “AI Headphones Let Wearer Listen To A Single Person In A Crowd, By Looking At Them Just Once”

By Middle East Monitor

Aid trucks loaded with supplies For Gaza are queued in Al-Arish City after the border closed, on May 8, 2024 in Arish, Egypt. [Photo by Ali Moustafa/Getty Image]

Some of the food supplies waiting to enter the Gaza Strip from Egypt have begun to rot as the Rafah border crossing remains shut to aid deliveries for a third week and people inside the Palestinian enclave face worsening hunger, Reuters reports. Continue reading “Food bound for Gaza rots in the sun as Egypt Rafah Crossing stays shut”

By MATTHEW PHELAN – DAILYMAIL.COM

Another fleet of Boeing jets were found earlier this year to have a potentially fatal flaw, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The issue involved an electrical fault on the company’s 777 jets that could cause fuel tanks on the planes’ wings to catch fire and explode. Continue reading “Revealed: 300 Boeing planes used by United and American Airlines have potential flaw that could cause jets to explode mid-air”

By MATHEW MAAVAK – The Eye Opener

The Lucis Trust, which has a long history of working with the United Nations, will be celebrating the World Invocation Day tomorrow (May 23). This event has been consistently observed on the “day of the Gemini full moon since 1952”, according to the Lucis Trust website. The annual event has to align with astrological cues. Last year, the World Invocation Day was held on June 3 which naturally featured a Gemini full moon. (Tomorrow also happens to be the Buddhist holy day of Vesak). Continue reading “Just who or what is the Lucis Trust summoning on ‘World Invocation Day’?”

By Annabella Rosciglione – Washington Examiner

Illinois looking to relabel ‘offenders’ as ‘justice-impacted individuals’

Illinois is moving forward with a bill that would reclassify some “offenders” as “justice-impacted individuals.” Continue reading “Illinois looking to relabel ‘offenders’ as ‘justice-impacted individuals’”

By Genevieve Gluck – Reduxx

Germany’s Parliament (Bundestag) has received the votes necessary to remove a section of the Criminal Code which made the possession of child sexual abuse materials a felony crime. Once the bill, passed last Thursday, comes into effect, minimum sentences for the possession of child pornography will be reduced, and the offense will be downgraded to a misdemeanor.

Continue reading ““Pro-Pedophile” Activist Group Celebrates As Germany Decriminalizes Child Porn Possession”