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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Care Homes in Japan Use Big Data to Boost Caregivers, Lighten Workloads
Japan-based nursing home operator and insurer Sompo Holdings is using technology to alleviate a caregiver shortage in that nation.
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Deepfake 'News' Videos Ramp Up Misinformation in Venezuela
Generative AI technology from Synthesia was used to create recent deepfake videos that attempted to spread misinformation and propaganda in Venezuela.
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DeepMind Research Cracks Structure of Almost Every Known Protein
Scientists at DeepMind used its AlphaFold algorithm to predict the 3D shape of almost every known protein.
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Microsoft Quietly Deletes Largest Public Face-Recognition Dataset
Microsoft has deleted its MS Celeb dataset from the Internet.
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How Smartphone Apps Track sers and Share Data
Researchers analyzing about 33% of the Android apps in the Google Play Store found almost nine out of 10 track smartphone data and transmit it back to Google.
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S Military: Robot Wars
When historians come to write about technological innovation in the first half of this century, they are likely to pay special attention to a US Navy drone called...
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Ibm Eyes 'big Data' Help For Brain Injury
Aiming to leverage big data technology for the benefit of healthcare, IBM is working with Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center physicians to develop data-analysis...
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Business Opportunities Come From Big Data
Big data offers vast potential to disrupt existing businesses and create new ones, but to realize its potential inexpensive storage, faster processing, smarter...
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