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For Black Women, Online Prediction Tool Could Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths
A risk prediction model tailored to Black women has been developed for use in primary care settings to identify those at higher-than-average risk of breast cancer...
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Can Seeds Planted by Drones Spawn New Forests?
Spanish startup CO2 Revolution aims to use big data analytics and drones to drop millions of enhanced seeds for trees native to Spain's forests over inaccessible...
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Google Introduces Pathways, a 'New Generation of AI'
A new artificial intelligence architecture that will handle many tasks at once.
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Big Teacher Is Watching: How AI Spyware Took Over Schools
The pandemic caused schools to embrace laptops, tablets, Zoom, and an app called GoGuardian that tracks everything students (and, sometimes, parents) do online....
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ML Algorithms Can Be Improved Significantly for Medical Purposes
Researchers at South Africa's University of Johannesburg have demonstrated that machine learning algorithms can be enhanced significantly for medical purposes. ...
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Human Creativity in the Age of Smart Machines
The story of how one organization helped the chronically homeless demonstrates the inherent value of observation, empathy, and perseverance.
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'PodoSighter' Uses AI to Identify Kidney Disease Indicator
The PodoSighter tool identifies early indicators of kidney disease by detecting podocytes, a specialized kidney cell damaged during early-stage kidney disease. ...
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Coding Bug Helped Researchers Build Secret BlackMatter Ransomware Decryption Tool
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Emsisoft helped recover encrypted files of victims of the BlackMatter ransomware operation.
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Data-Driven Animations of Marine Mammals Combine Biology, Art, Computation
University of California, Santa Cruz researchers have created tools and procedures for generating realistic, data-driven animations of marine mammals.
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Sensors Add to Accuracy, Power of U.S. Nuclear Weapons but May Create Security Perils
Sensors created by Sandia National Laboratories for U.S. ballistic missiles could augment their detonation timing and accuracy.
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Australia Considers New Privacy Rules to Protect Children on Social Media
The Australian government is considering legislation that would enable the creation of an online code to prohibit social media from directing children to harmful...
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Chinese Scientists Develop Quantum Computer with 113 Detected Photons
Chinese scientists have developed a quantum computer prototype with 113 detected photons to solve tasks using the classical Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) modeling...
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How to Map a Fly Brain in 20 Million Easy Steps
Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus and Google have been mapping the fruit fly brain connectome since 2014.
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Robot Taxi Boats Take to the Water in Amsterdam
An autonomous boat taxi is set for deployment in the canals of Amsterdam.
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McDonald's Partners With IBM to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI
"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't give you fries with that."
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Researchers Help Expand Mineral Exploration Using Machine Learning
Researchers at Australia's Curtin University and the Geological Survey of Western Australia are using deep learning to analyze geochemical data to expand mineral...
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Multi-Algorithm Approach Helps Deliver Personalized Medicine for Cancer Patients
Researchers used ensemble-based machine learning algorithms to forecast patients' response to cancer-fighting drugs with high accuracy.
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AI Sheds Light on How the Brain Processes Language
Research by neuroscientists suggests the latest predictive language models' underlying mechanism functions similarly to the human brain's language-processing centers...
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