Schools Enlist AI to Detect Vaping and Bullies in Bathrooms

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Schools in 23 U.S. states have installed bathroom sensors to trigger alerts about vaping or bullyingSchools have been removing bathroom doors, posting bathroom monitors, and even closing bathrooms in their struggles to handle the surging popularity of vaping among middle school and high school students. That has translated into steady business for a U.S. company…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Weird: 3 Directions for Moore’s Law

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GlobalFoundries has dropped out, TSMC is thriving, and DARPA sees another way forwardul.listicle.SerifType { font-family: "Georgia", serif; margin: 1em 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; list-item-decoration: none; } h3.listicle-item-hed a { color: #d80404!important; } Photo: TSMC Silicon Gold Mine: Unlike GlobalFoundries, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. sees profit in following Moore’s Law.…
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November 1918: The First World War Ends

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The war began the industrial revolution of warfare, of which the single most important development was the synthesis of ammonia Photo-illustration: Stuart Bradford Few 100-year anniversaries resonate so loudly as November’s marking of the end of the world’s first truly global armed conflict. The war’s unspeakable carnage scarred the memory of…
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The IoT Needs a New Set of Eyes

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Cameras for the Internet of Things will have to be fast, cheap, and powerful—and might not look like cameras at all Photo-illustration: Stuart Bradford The rise of computer vision has given us robot chefs and cameras that detect gas flares in fuel production. It’s also led to an increase in connected…
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