Technology ReviewThe National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of blind people, at present introduced an initiative to make sure that any blind individual in the United States and Puerto Rico who wants a long white cane could have one, regardless of potential to pay. The NFB will provide a free cane to anyone within the fifty states, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico who is blind or has low vision and who uses or desires to use a white cane with a view to journey independently. This historic initiative is the most important effort ever of its kind to offer white canes to individuals who’re blind or have low imaginative and prescient.

The strategy is similar to a method utilized by researchers from MIT, CMU, and NYU to coach a computer to recognize written characters from just one or two examples (see This AI … Read more

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