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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Deep Learning Techniques Lead to Materials Imaging Breakthrough
Researchers have created two new deep learning methods.
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Biden DHS Creates New Board to Police 'Disinformation'
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is starting a new office, the Disinformation Governance Board, that will focus on countering "misinformation" and "disinformation...
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China's Weibo Shows User Locations to Combat 'Bad Behavior'
Chinese social media application Weibo will publish users' Internet Protocol addresses on their account pages and when they post comments, in order to rein in...
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Researchers Monitor Subsurface CO2 Storage
Texas A&M University researchers demonstrated that unsupervised machine learning algorithms could analyze data from a geological carbon sequestration site to determine...
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Google Forces Developers to Explain Data Collection
Developers can begin declaring how they use collected data, with a deadline of July 20 to complete their submissions.
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Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document
"We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data," Facebook engineers say in leaked document.
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Researchers Use ML to Speed Up Counting of Microplastics
Researchers have proposed a new machine learning method to accelerate the counting and classification of microplastics, while also boosting affordability and ease...
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New Approaches to Biometric Security
The latest biometric security methods place a priority on contactless identification.
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Ukraine Sounds Alarm on Chinese Drones, Opening Skies to U.S. Startups
Hundreds of small drones from U.S. startups are searching for survivors and Russian hideouts in Ukraine, after Ukrainian government officials cited Chinese drones...
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House-Flipping Algorithms are Coming to Your Neighborhood
Despite millions of dollars in losses, iBuying's failure doesn't signal the end of tech-led disruption, just a fumbled beginning.
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Estimating the Informativeness of Data
MIT researchers can now estimate how much information data are likely to contain, in a more accurate and scalable way than previous methods.
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NEC X Announces Fifth AI Start-Up from its Corporate Accelerator Program
Start-up Beagle Technology addresses agricultural labor shortage and cost issues with new automated pruning technology for the wine industry.
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Can Robots Save Nursing Homes?
As more nursing home and assisted living facility staff leave the profession, some facilities are turning to robots to fill in the gaps.
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Reducing COVID-19 Patients' Breathing Efforts Could Be Key to Success of Non-Invasive Respiratory Support
A team of researchers demonstrated that non-invasive respiratory support is more likely to be successful if it relies on significantly reducing patients' efforts...
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Improving Georgia Land Conservation Through Algorithms
Researchers at the University of Georgia developed an algorithm for assessing a tract of land's conservation value by factoring in variables excluded from other...
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Raising Robovoices
New systems can model and synthesize voices, and even translate them into other languages.
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Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health
How AI can be used to improve diagnosis of mental health conditions.
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Concerned Your Smartphone Is Spying on You?
Columbia University computer scientists developed an algorithm that can block smart devices from spying on users by generating extremely quiet sounds.
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These are The 5 Most In-Demand Cloud Computing Jobs in 2022
Unlike sectors such as hospitality, the cloud computing industry continued to grow in 2020 and onwards. But it's not stopping there.
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