Abstract: A system (11) includes: (a) a tray (44), for placing thereon a sample including a first flowable-matter substrate (FMS) (69), (b) a printing assembly (22), to print image, made from edible substance, on a second FMS layer (68) formed on first FMS (69), (c) an axis mechanism (10), to mechanically support tray (44) and control a distance (41) between the sample and printing assembly (22) by moving tray (44) with the sample along an axis, (d) a support member (55, 56), coupled to the printing assembly (22) to mechanically support the printing assembly (22), and (e) vibration dampers (37, 45, 111), placed between (i) the printing assembly (22) and (11) at least one of the axis mechanism (10), tray (44) and the sample, and configured to suppress vibrations between (i) at least one of the printing assembly (22), the axis mechanism (10) and the tray (44), and (ii) the sample.

Abstract: The presently disclosed embodiments may include a computer readable medium including instructions that when executed by one or more processing devices cause the one or more processing devices to perform a method. The method may include initiating a writing assistant application in response to input received from a user; receiving a first user input, wherein the first user input includes a collection of two or more words that convey at least one idea; automatically constructing, using one or more trained models providing a natural language generation function, a first complete sentence option that expresses the at least one idea; causing the first complete sentence option to be shown to the user via the display; receiving a second user input, and, in response to the received second input; and causing a second complete sentence option, different from the first complete sentence option, to be shown on the display.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. An FNC may be implemented to manage operations of a wireless fronthaul network. The FNC may monitor one or more network conditions and parameters of a network, which may include a fronthaul network and a radio access network. The fronthaul network may include at least one DU that supports wireless communications with a plurality of RUs via a plurality of fronthaul communication links, and the radio access network may include the plurality of RUs supporting communications for a plurality of wireless devices. The FNC may output, based on the one or more network conditions and the parameters, one or more fronthaul operation parameters for the at least one DU to support wireless communication for at least one RU of the plurality of RUs via one or more respective communication links of the plurality of communication links.

Abstract: A method for updating a configuration of a bridge in a network comprising at least the bridge, a gateway, and a server, the updating being performed using at least a portion of a protocol for wireless communication between the gateway and the bridge that does not support ACK/NACK messages, comprising: receiving by the server an indication of a current state of the bridge; when that is not a desired state: setting, in the server, the current state of the bridge to pending for the desired state; transmitting a configure request to update the bridge to the desired state; and when, within a predetermined period of time of transmitting the configure request, a completion message is received by the server from the bridge in response to updating the bridge configuration, setting the current state of the bridge to the desired state in the server.

Abstract: An anchor-based collaborative filtering system receives a training dataset including user-item interactions each identifying a user and an item that the user has positively interacted with. The system defines a vector space and distributes the items of the training dataset within the vector based on a determined similarity of the items. The system further defines a set of taste anchors that are each associated in memory with a subgroup of the items in a same neighborhood of the vector space. To make a recommendation to an individual user, the system identifies an anchor-based representation for the individual user that includes a subset of the defined taste anchors that best represents the types of items that the user has favorably interacted with in the past. The taste anchors included in the identified anchor-based representation for the individual user are used to make recommendations to the user in the future.

Abstract: A trace network for debugging integrated circuits is disclosed. At least one functional network includes a plurality of components interconnected by a number of network switches, implemented on at least one integrated circuit. A trace network is also implemented on the at least one integrated circuit, and includes a plurality of trace circuits configured to generate trace data based on transactions between ones of the plurality of components. The plurality of trace circuits are coupled to one another by a plurality of trace network switches. The trace circuits are configured to convey the generated trace data to an interface, via the trace network, without using the at least one functional network.

Abstract: The invention provides methods and apparatus for detecting when an online session is compromised. A plurality of device fingerprints may be collected from a user computer that is associated with a designated Session ID. A server may include pages that are delivered to a user for viewing in a browser at which time device fingerprints and Session ID information are collected. By collecting device fingerprints and session information at several locations among the pages delivered by the server throughout an online session, and not only one time or at log-in, a comparison between the fingerprints in association with a Session ID can identify the likelihood of session tampering and man-in-the middle attacks.

Abstract: A system for detects and manages recurring transactions incurred by members of a client organization. The system includes a computing server that is configured to classify named entities into a category of transacting named entities. For example, the computing server classifies a list of named entities that offer subscription services and hence, create recurring transactions with the client organization. The computing server receives transaction data and determines that a target transacting named entity extracted from the received data belongs to the category (e.g., there is a named entity in the received transaction data that has sold a service to the client organization more than once). The computing server may then determine the presence and frequency of a subscription transaction series in the received transaction data, and cause a predicted a timing of an upcoming transaction in the subscription transaction series to be displayed in a graphical user interface (GUI).

Abstract: A kinematic capability in a virtual kinematic device is identified. Input data are received in the form of data on at least two 2D virtual representations of a given virtual kinematic device. A kinematic analyzer is applied to the input data. The analyzer is modeled with a function trained by a machine learning (ML) algorithm and the kinematic analyzer generates output data. The output data includes data on a set of kinematic descriptors of at least one kinematic capability identified on the at least two 2D virtual representations of the given virtual kinematic device. The at least one identified kinematic capability of the given virtual kinematic device is determined from the output data.

Abstract: The technology generally relates to systems and methods for performing in-field testing of processing cores within a system-on-chip (SoC), so as to identify faults, including those associated with silent data corruption. For example, an SoC may contain operational cores and spare cores. An operational core may be selected for testing while a spare core is used to replace the tested core. In addition, a spare core may be used to replace an operational core that has been determined to be corrupted.

Abstract: Generally disclosed herein is an approach for a telemetry subsystem enabling the telemetry data to be collected and processed without the need to interrupt processing jobs being processed by processing cores. The telemetry subsystem may include one or more telemetry cores dedicated to telemetry data collection. Telemetry cores are configured to receive telemetry data from telemetry agents, processing cores, and other components of a system on chip (SoC).

Abstract: Apparatus (20) for hearing assistance includes a spectacle frame (22), including a front piece (30) and temples (32), with one or more microphones (23) mounted at respective first locations on the front piece and configured to output electrical signals in response to first acoustic waves (64) that are incident on the microphones. A speaker (28) is mounted at a second location on one of the temples outputs second acoustic waves (66). Processing circuitry (26) generates a drive signal for the speaker by processing the electrical signals output by the microphones so as to cause the speaker to reproduce selected sounds occurring in the first acoustic waves with a delay that is equal within 20% to a transit time of the first acoustic waves from the first location to the second location, thereby engendering constructive interference between the first and second acoustic waves.

Abstract: The invention provides methods and apparatus for securing personalized or sensitive information appearing in digital images. Digital images containing information to be secured is processed and divided into a plurality of image cells. At least one image cell from the plurality of image cells is selected and redacted or altered to render the information to be secured with the selected image cells in decipherable. The invention also provide method and apparatus for transmitting or streaming unredacted image cells alone or in combination with redacted image cell for secured viewing on a user browser or computer.

Abstract: Systems and methods for verifying wireless connections are provided. In one example, a method includes, at a computing system, responsive to initiating a wireless connection between a client device and a host device, generating a communication fingerprint of the client device based on at least one response characteristic of the client device, the at least one response characteristic based on a communication between the client device and the host device, the communication passing through each of a software layer of the client device and a hardware element of the client device. In this way, overall system security of a wireless connection between the host device and the client device may be increased.

Abstract: A system for transmitting wireless power from multiple sources to multiple receivers, in which the safety of the system is maintained in spite of the possibility that two beams may intersect in the transmission space, thereby generating power or power density levels which exceed those at which the safety mechanisms of the system were designed to operate. The paths of the beams are known from the transmission positions and directions, and from the positions and orientations of the receivers, as measured by positioning devices on them. When an intersection, or near intersection of beams is determined, the system is triggered to reduce the safety risk by attenuating or turning off, or by diverting, one or more of the beams. In addition, since a reflected beam's path may not be readily discernable, the system can ascertain if one of the beams has undergone a reflection, by looking for displayed mirror images.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for training and using a neural network to evaluate vulnerability of software packages, comprising using a plurality of training samples each associating one of a plurality of software packages with one of a plurality of vulnerabilities identified by one of a plurality of validators to training the neural network to compute a probability of presence of one or more of the plurality of vulnerabilities in each of the plurality of software packages and outputting the trained neural network. The validators may include expert knowledge, heuristics, rule-based models as well as machine learning and deep learning models. The trained neural network may be then applied to compute a probability of presence of one or more of the vulnerabilities in one or more previously unseen software packages based on a feed of vulnerabilities identified in the previously unseen software package(s) by the plurality of validators.

Abstract: The technology subject of the present application concerns a water treatment system utilizing hexacyanoferrate salts.

Abstract: The is provided a technique of managing a construction project. The technique comprises: processing a plurality of overlapping aerial images of an “as-built” construction layout comprising “as-built” construction elements (BCEs) to recognize in each of the captured images one or more BCE instances characterized by respective classes and image-space coordinates thereof; transforming image-space coordinates of the recognized BCE instances into respective 3D reference-space coordinates of respective BCEs; verifying the “as-built” construction layout by comparing, at least, class and 3D reference-space coordinates of the BCEs with, at least, class and 3D reference-space coordinates of the “as-designed” construction elements, wherein results of verifying are informative, at least, of a missing BCE, a mis-placed BCE and/or a false BCE; and using the results of verifying to cause one or more corrective actions and/or for triggering a delay of a critical construction action.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described including a ventricular assist device that includes an axial shaft and an impeller disposed on the axial shaft, the impeller being configured to pump blood. A frame is disposed around the impeller. The distal end of the axial shaft is configured to engage with a distal thrust bearing such as to prevent the axial shaft from undergoing axial motion in response to variations in the pressure gradient against which the impeller pumps blood. An impeller-stabilizing spring is disposed around the axial shaft between a distal end of the impeller and the thrust bearing, the impeller-stabilizing spring being configured to stabilize the distal end of the impeller. Other applications are also described.

Abstract: A system capable of speech gap modulation is configured to: receive at least one composite speech portion, which comprises at least one speech portion and at least one dynamic-gap portion, wherein the speech portion(s) comprising at least one variable-value speech portion, wherein the dynamic-gap portion(s) associated with a pause in speech; receive at least one synchronization point, wherein synchronization point(s) is associating a point in time in the composite speech portion(s) and a point in time in other media portion(s); and modulate dynamic-gap portion(s), based at least partially on the at variable-value speech portion(s), and on the point(s), thereby generating at least one modulated composite speech portion. This facilitates improved synchronization of the modulated composite speech portion(s) and the other media portion(s) at the synchronization point(s), when combining the other media portion(s) and the audio-format modulated composite speech portion(s) into a synchronized multimedia output.