Apps like Waze, Google Maps, and Apple Maps may make traffic conditions worse in some areas, new research suggests

AI Detects Papaya Ripeness

Last year, the United States alone imported more than US $107 million worth of fresh papayas as the world’s largest papaya import market. The computer vision software could enable papaya growers to maximize the value of their fruit by sending the ripestpapayas to local markets and saving less ripe papayas for export, says Douglas Fernandes Barbin, a researcher in the department of food engineering at the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil. But he and his colleagues also want to help individual shoppers get their money’s worth in grocery aisles.

Making music using new sounds generated with machine learning

Technology has always played a role in inspiring musicians in new and creative ways. The guitar amp gave rock musicians a new palette of sounds to play with in the form of feedback and distortion. And the sounds generated by synths helped shape the sound of electronic music.

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