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Despite initial reticence, more and more Swiss retail banks are turning to artificial intelligence to optimize their processes and offer new services. A recent survey by Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts shows that although the use of AI is still in its infancy, the potential has been recognized, for example in the areas of data analysis and risk management.

Companies are faced with the challenge of processing ever-increasing amounts of data efficiently.

A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo have created a method that makes virtual reality (VR) more accessible to people with mobility limitations.

We generate and consume data in countless ways, often beyond our understanding. This data is a collection of traces that reveal our identities and reflect our habits and behaviours.

Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup moved from the University of Melbourne to the University of Klagenfurt at the end of 2024 to continue working on optimized cryptographic codes that ensure several goals: Wh

Scientists have reprogrammed a Roomba to perform four new tasks, showcasing how domestic robots can be harnessed during their downtime to make our lives easier.

Credit: Jernej Furman from Slovenia, CC BY 2. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing productivity and pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

Traditional large-scale power generators ensure a stable frequency of alternating current in the European power grid.

The City of Mendrisio, in collaboration with Handy System and SUPSI's Service for Forensic Informatics (SIF), presented DEEP: a video-translator totem equipped with a camera capable of recording and translating from Italian Sign Language (LIS) to Italian and vice versa.

A system developed at EPFL uses augmented reality (AR) to help carpenters make extremely precise timber cuts without having to measure or mark up beams.

Researchers developed a ground-breaking new tool to help build safer AI. Today, almost everybody has heard of AI and millions around the world already use, or are exposed, to it - from ChatGPT writing our emails, to helping in medical diagnosis.

Researchers at the Institute of Visual Computing have made it possible to remove objects from live recordings of three-dimensional environments without time delay while the camera remains in motion.

A new tool which can rapidly prototype augmented reality experiences has given researchers new insights which could allow cyclists to safely share the roads with self-driving cars.

Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon.

Quantum computers promise to outperform today's traditional computers in many areas of science, including chemistry, physics, and cryptography, but proving they will be superior has been challenging. The most well-known problem in which quantum computers are expected to have the edge, a trait physicists call "quantum advantage," involves factoring large numbers, a hard math problem that lies at the root of securing digital information.

Researchers demonstrate the UK's first long-distance ultra-secure communication over a quantum network Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK's first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of

Three researchers reflect on the significance of TU/e's quantum computers, how they work, and what's coming next in quantum computing.

A new study on how computers can be accurately controlled using only facial expressions could help make augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies more accessible to people living with disabilities. Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland discovered that seven simple facial movements could be reliably recognised by Meta's Quest Pro headset, enabling users to control a VR game and navigate web pages in an AR environment.

DECOTA transforms open-ended survey responses into clear themes - helping policymakers make better use of underutilised public feedback AI tool DECOTA analyses free-text data rapidly, affordably, and

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded 2.3 million to a new research initiative on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.

In a groundbreaking paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics researchers from the University of Vermont and Trinity College Dublin propose an innovative analogy between AI models and genetic encoding to help us understand how genes encode the complex information that enables them to create an organism.

Insights from a new study focused on widening the use of eye-tracking as a control method for mobile devices could offer a sharper view of the smartphones of the future.

The challenges of aligning artificial intelligence (AI) with human values are the focus of a compelling new book by Dr Travis LaCroix from our Department of Philosophy.

Using weather data, a traditional climate calculation model, and artificial intelligence, Dr. Daniel Krieger of the University of Hamburg's Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability

Finding written sources, analysing them and using the results of the analysis to answer a research question - this is how historians work.

To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together.

Researchers at the University of Würzburg have developed a headset that astronauts can use to train for various missions.

Pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University , artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise while also invoking challenges in its applications and use.

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a role in virtually every aspect of our lives, from self-driving cars to smart vacuum cleaners, to computer models that can predict the course of an epidemic.