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The Zoologist s Guide to the Galaxy, the Cambridge University zoologist and mathematical biologist Arik Kershenbaum known principally for his studies of animal vocalizations turns to astrobiology, a field concerned with the origins and persistence of life in the Universe, and provides readers with a tentative sketch of the nature of potential alien life on other potentially habitable planets.
Father of the internet Vint Cerf reignites mission to use the internet to talk with animals
16 January 2021 • 5:00am
Javier Sanchez, a former Amazon Alexa engineer, has bought a new Siamese cat. Mochi (which his children lovingly named after the Japanese dessert) has a destiny far greater than a simple family pet: she is the test pilot for his cat translation app, MeowTalk.
“They have a very unusual voice,” Sanchez says. “I’ve been told that the app was not working as well with breeds that have high pitched or low pitched voices so I wanted to see for myself.”
MeowTalk can tell cat owners if their pet is communicating one of nine categories such as being defensive or mating call after they upload its meow. It combines the technology behind Amazon Alexa and Google’s voice assistant and years of cat communication research. The most difficult part, Sanchez says, was simply making the app run at scale for the more than two million phones that downloaded it in t
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