How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius' eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history
Well, make a 3D CT scan, use the images to virtually unfold, recognize the ink drops, and off you go. Amazing work by three students (from Berlin, Nebraska and ETH Zurich). … X: Nat Friedman / @natfr...
DeepMind details Ithaca, an AI model to help restore missing text from ancient Greek inscriptions and offer suggestions about where and when they were written
A ‘complementary tool’ to help historians unravel ancient text — Machine learning techniques are providing new tools … Source: Nature and Deepmind .
Google Translate expands offline translation support to 59 languages including Italian, Greek, Norwegian, and Swahili
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Hands on with Microsoft's Project Spartan browser: touch support is lacking and extensions aren't yet available, but annotations and Cortana impress
A closer look at Project Spartan, Microsoft's Internet Explorer killer — The Spartan army was the centrepiece of an ancient Greek city-state …