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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Improving Security as AI Moves to Smartphones
Researchers suggest the vulnerability of compressed, or quantized, artificial intelligence models to adversarial attack could be remedied by adding a mathematical...
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Jaguar Land Rover Planning to Allow Helpful Car Drivers to Earn Cryptocurrency
U.K. automaker Jaguar Land Rover is testing software that will allow drivers of its vehicles to earn virtual currency as an incentive for sharing data.
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Partnership on AI: Algorithms Aren't Ready to Automate Pretrial Bail Hearings
The Partnership on AI has released a report declaring the algorithms now in use to automate the pre-trial bail process unfit to do so.
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Facial Recognition Software Meets Its Match: Barnyard Animals
Attempts to identify barnyard animals via facial recognition are complicated by the software's difficulty in distinguishing between animals.
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Drones, Supercomputers and Sonar Deployed Against Floods
Emerging technologies are being used to flight floods in the U.S.
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Fitness Monitors, Smartwatches are Not Medical Devices
Manufacturers may blur the distinctions, but they're important.
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Video Game Effort Could Help Regulate Future Drone Traffic
A new video game simulation uses a three-dimensional model of Salt Lake City and data about planned drone paths to determine potential problems.
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How Technology Could Revolutionize Refugee Resettlement
A new software program uses a matching algorithm to allocate refugees with no ties to the U.S. to their new homes.
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Filling in the Gaps of Connected Car Data Helps Transportation Planners
A researcher has developed a computational model that provides a more accurate representation of traffic in cities for more efficient and cost-effective urban planning...
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U.S. Airports Will se AI To Scan 97% Of Passengers' Faces Within 4 Years
U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to expand its Biometric Exit program to cover 97% of outbound air passengers within four years.
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Academics Hide Humans From Surveillance Cameras With 2D Prints
Researchers have developed a technique of using simple two-dimensional images to render wearers invisible to surveillance cameras.
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Coming to Store Shelves: Cameras That Guess Your Age, Sex
Retailers are testing in-store cameras designed to guess shoppers' ages and genders, to inform real-time advertisements on store video screens.
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AI That Spots Inequality Could Monitor Living Conditions in Cities
Researchers have trained an artificial intelligence to detect inequalities in four U.K. cities using a combination of government statistics and images from Google...
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Letting the Laboratory Drive
A self-driving laboratory is a kind of robot scientist that uses sensors to become aware of its environment and artificial intelligence to autonomously make decisions...
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Geomagnetic Jerks Finally Reproduced, Explained
Researchers have created a computer model that explains anomalies in the Earth's magnetic field.
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In African Villages, These Phones Become ltrasound Scanners
Doctors are using a hand-held ultrasound scanner to provide medical imaging to residents of remote African villages.
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Mapping the World in 3D Will Let s Paint Streets With Augmented Reality
The U.K. startup Scape provides a visual positioning service that uses global positioning systems and multiple camera images to localize users.
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The Robots That Manage the Managers
New artificial intelligence-driven coaching apps and platforms aim to provide basic training in traditional supervisory skills such as delivering feedback and delegating...
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Training Data for Autonomous Driving
Understand.ai is a startup launched in Germany to improve and accelerate the labeling of image elements for autonomous driving algorithms.
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