{"id":3812,"date":"2017-01-13T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2017-01-13T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:49:08","slug":"at-news-wrap-up-11317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3812","title":{"rendered":"AT News Wrap Up, 1\/13\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday the 13th, and these news articles are scary incredible! Bionic eyes,&nbsp;computers that understand us, and much, much more&#8230;AT in the news for the week of 1\/9\/17 &#8211; 1\/13\/17.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/technology-quarterly\/2017-05-01\/language#section-2?fsrc=scn\/tw\/te\/bl\/ed\/findingavoice\">Computers have got much better at translation, voice recognition and speech synthesis, says Lane Greene. But they still don\u2019t understand the meaning of language<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coolblindtech.com\/introducing-olli-the-worlds-most-accessible-self-driving-vehicle\/\">Introducing Olli: The World\u2019s Most Accessible, Self-Driving Vehicle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/12\/22\/this-technology-helps-guide-the-blind-and-visually-impaired.html\">This technology helps guide the blind and visually impaired<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-treatment-for-blindness-nhs-to-install-bionic-eyes-in-10-patients\/\">A Treatment for Blindness? NHS to Install Bionic Eyes in 10 Patients<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-us\/article\/Accessibility-in-Office-Lens-for-iPhone-9a6cb4e2-6ceb-438d-829e-b3c7e977b5d8?ui=en-US&amp;rs=en-US&amp;ad=US\">Accessibility in Office Lens for iPhone<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3812\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday the 13th, and these news articles are scary incredible! Bionic eyes,&nbsp;computers that understand us, and much, much more&#8230;AT in the news for the week of 1\/9\/17 &#8211; 1\/13\/17. Computers have got much better at translation, voice recognition and speech synthesis, says Lane Greene. But they still don\u2019t understand the meaning of language Introducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,14,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}