An hour’s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem. It is real, rural America. It’s a two-hour drive from the exact geographical center of the United States. For the last decade, Taylor and her renters have been visited by all kinds of mysterious trouble. They’ve … Read More
Facebook is now using AI to describe photos to the blind
A description of what’s in an image is being provided via new object recognition technology that Facebook has been working on for months. This means that blind or visually impaired users who access Facebook via screen readers (devices or programs that give an audio description of what’s happening on a screen) will get short descriptions of the images people are … Read More
