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App Uses AI, Biomarkers to Produce Covid-19 'Severity Score'
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App Uses AI, Biomarkers to Produce Covid-19 'Severity Score'

A new mobile app uses artificial intelligence and key biomarkers to produce a Covid-19 "severity score" to help clinicians determine which patients with the novel...

Team Duetto Takes First Place in All-Woman Virtual Hackathon
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Team Duetto Takes First Place in All-Woman Virtual Hackathon

A group of five female tech engineers from Duetto recently won first place in the Women Hack the Crisis Global All-Women Virtual Hackathon event, with their Hotel...

Gamemakers Inject AI to Develop More Lifelike Characters
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Gamemakers Inject AI to Develop More Lifelike Characters

Researchers from Electronic Arts and the University of British Columbia are using a machine learning technique to speed up the videogame development process by...

Conformable Clothes Can Monitor Vital Signs
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Conformable Clothes Can Monitor Vital Signs

Form-fitting garments embedded with sensors could be used to remotely track a person's temperature and heart rate.

Automating Automation
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Automating Automation: CS at the Heart of the Manufacturing Economy

Using machine learning, I'm able to reduce the time required for designing products from months to mere hours as well as free up time for engineers to focus on...

App With Machine Learning Will Provide Rapid At-Home Assessment of Coronavirus Risk
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App With Machine Learning Will Provide Rapid At-Home Assessment of Coronavirus Risk

A coronavirus app coupled with a machine learning algorithm will soon enable an individual to get an at-home risk assessment based on how they feel and where they've...

Barclays Installs Spyware on Employees' Computers
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Barclays Installs Spyware on Employees' Computers

Barclays has installed "Big Brother" monitoring software on the computers of workers at its London headquarters.

Artificial Intelligence Yields New Antibiotic
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Artificial Intelligence Yields New Antibiotic

A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Doctors Use Big Data to Cut Sepsis Down to Size
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Doctors Use Big Data to Cut Sepsis Down to Size

Doctors are using computers to analyze demographic information, vital signs, and routine blood tests in electronic health records to find patterns that might help...

Smart Jumpsuit Monitors Infants' Movement and Development
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Smart Jumpsuit Monitors Infants' Movement and Development

Researchers have developed a multi-sensor smart jumpsuit that measures the spontaneous and voluntary movement of infants to help assess abnormal neurological development...

VR Will Help Train Ford Mustang Mach-E Technicians
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VR Will Help Train Ford Mustang Mach-E Technicians

Technicians soon will be trained how to service and maintain the all-electric Mustang Mach-E without need to access a physical model — thanks to a new virtual reality...

AI May Alter How Doctors Treat Depression
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AI May Alter How Doctors Treat Depression

Research shows artificial intelligence can accurately predict whether an antidepressant will work based on a patient's brain activity.

Children's Hospital and ORNL Leverage Data to Aid Mental Health
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Children's Hospital and ORNL Leverage Data to Aid Mental Health

Oak Ridge National Laboratory will partner with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to explore ways to deploy expertise in health data science that could...

Deep Learning System Accurately Forecasts Heat Waves, Cold Spells
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Deep Learning System Accurately Forecasts Heat Waves, Cold Spells

Rice University engineers have created a deep learning computer system based on an obsolete method of weather forecasting that can accurately predict extreme events...

Machine Learning Models Support Behavioral Practitioners
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Machine Learning Models Support Behavioral Practitioners

Machine learning algorithms are more accurate than dual-criteria methods at supporting the educational and clinical decisions made by teachers, mental-health professionals...

Data Science Community Rocked by Pet Adoption Contest Cheating Scandal
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Data Science Community Rocked by Pet Adoption Contest Cheating Scandal

A team of programmers scraped data from a pet adoption website to cheat in a $10,000 contest that was intended to help shelter pets get adopted.

Abbott Labs Forces Github to Remove Free Blood Glucose Monitoring Tool
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Abbott Labs Forces Github to Remove Free Blood Glucose Monitoring Tool

Abbott Labs used U.S. copyright law to force Diabettech, a diabetes treatment technology website, to remove from Github technical instructions and code for extracting...

Cigna Uses AI to Check if Patients Are Taking Their Medications
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Cigna Uses AI to Check if Patients Are Taking Their Medications

Health insurer Cigna is expanding an AI-based system it acquired with its purchase of Express Scripts. Early results showed success in helping patients with chronic...

Jenny Xu's App Helps Students Build Hackathon Teams
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Jenny Xu's App Helps Students Build Hackathon Teams

Jenny Xu, a junior at Stony Brook University, has developed and introduced Hacker Matcher, an app for team building at hackathons.

Machine Learning Leads to Novel Way to Track Parkinson's Severity
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Machine Learning Leads to Novel Way to Track Parkinson's Severity

Computer scientists and medical researchers used wearable sensors and algorithms to measure the severity of Parkinsonian tremors in patients performing daily acitivities...
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