Empath AI Can Detect Emotions from Voice in Real-Time One of the biggest challenges AI has ever faced is undoubtedly its inability to efficiently detect and respond to human emotions. A lot of tech giants includingAmazonhave been investing a lot for imparting emotional intelligence to their AI-based systems. Now, a Tokyo-based startup named Empath has entered the scene that claims to detect emotions from your voice. Empath uses algorithms that is trained on voice samples provided by Smartmedical, a Japanese health tech company....

Focos is an iOS Camera App That Lets You Control the Depth of Field in Portrait Shots Have you ever wanted to adjust the depth of field of images captured on iPhones? Well, you can do so now by using an app named Focos that gives you more control over your photos to tweak and fine-tune them as you desire. One of the main attractions of the app is the ability to capture images inportrait mode with a single camera sensor....

Google Calendar Will Now Warn Gsuite Users If a Meeting Is Scheduled Outside Working Hours In an effort to improve communication in enterprises, the GSuite team has started rolling out a new update that will change how Google Calendar works at a basic level for organizing events and meetings. The three changes Gsuite has made for Google Calendar are –grid viewin working hours,warning for scheduling eventsoutside working hours, and turningworking hours on by default....

Google’s Baby Monitor Might Notify You When Your Baby Is Feeling Uncomfortable Google might be planning to make use of its expertise in AI to help parents stay updated with the activities of their baby. A patent application filed last year that got published recently hints at Google’s plans to track the movements of the baby to notify parents if their baby is feeling uncomfortable. The system will take the output from a video monitor and will apply Google’s advanced AI-based software....

How to Edit Your Facebook Ad Interests You must have wondered at least once how popular social media platform Facebook manages to serve you the most relevant and accurate ads a lot of times. Well, that is because Facebook has a curated list of interests compiled based on your usage patterns and what the algorithms predict you might be into. Luckily, Facebook provides us with the option to access and modify our so-called “interests”....

This Buddhist Temple Has a Robot Priest to Perform Rituals A Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan has a new priest named Mindar. Unlike other priests, Mindar has a superpower. The laws of mortality do not apply to this priest. Yes, you guessed that right. Mindar is a robot. The external appearance of Mindar is designed to look like Kannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. The cost of manufacturing Mindar touched nearly $1 million but unfortunately, Mindar is not an AI-based robot as of now....

This Man Caught a Stranger’s iPhone in a Roller Coaster You must have heard a lot of stories of people claiming to do things that are too good to be true. A similar incident happened earlier this week but luckily, there is a video of it. A New Zealand man has gone internationally viral for his“spidey sense”-like quick reflexes. Samuel Kempf was enjoying a roller coaster ride in Spain. All of a sudden, he saw a smartphone (iPhone) coming through and magically managed to get a hold on it while the roller coaster was moving at a speed of over 130 km/hr....