"When I listen deep, I'm not my owner," Jenny Hval sings towards the end of her new album Classic Objects. "Maybe I never was." It's a concept the experimental Norwegian artist has explored again and ...

Are we the sum of our own actions, or the sum of our own objects? A new book investigates this question through a compendium of curated items from the far throes of culture to meditate on notions of ...

Imagine a coffee cup sitting on a table. Now, imagine a book partially obscuring the cup. As humans, we still know what the coffee cup is even though we can't see all of it. But a robot might be ...

It’s like Spotify, only for images. That seems to be the guiding principle behind Sketch-a-net, a new computer program that claims to yield “sketch recognition performance surpassing that of humans.” ...

BYU engineer Dah-Jye Lee has created an object recognition algorithm that can accurately identify objects in images or video sequences all by itself, without any human help. According to Lee, the ...