Nov 14, 2019 | Smart Cities
Participants were given access to data sets about traffic count; city fleet telematics; street infrastructure; traffic safety; community amenities; bike share and demographics. And the winners were awarded $5,000, $2,000 and $500, respectively. “It was an...
Nov 14, 2019 | Featured, Machine Learning, Robots & Drones
Microsoft Corp. and technology rivals spend a lot of time talking about machine learning. Now Microsoft is talking about something called machine teaching. No, the software maker doesn’t plan to send robots into classrooms. In a world where factories...
Nov 14, 2019 | Accessibility, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
State regulators recently hosted a public hearing to shape long-awaited rules for autonomous vehicles (AVs) in California. The meeting represented a crucial step for the state as it moves closer to a future with AVs. AVs will make life more convenient for everyone....
Nov 14, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, computers can now assist doctors in diagnosing disease and help monitor patient vital signs from hundreds of miles away. Now, CU Boulder researchers are working to apply machine learning to psychiatry, with a speech-based...
Nov 7, 2019 | Collaboration, Events
Have you ever found your yourself amongst a group of people in a discussion when suddenly one person says something that floods the answer to a problem you have wrestled with? A seemingly obscure or disconnected thought spurs your own brain into overdrive and...
Nov 7, 2019 | Agriculture, Machine Learning
With advances in underwater camera technology and machine-learning-based image processing, biologists with NOAA Fisheries have been able to complete some fish surveys in a fraction of the amount of time previously needed. The survey data is incorporated into stock...
Nov 7, 2019 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots & Drones
Sub-Saharan Africa has, on average, the worst healthcare in the world, according to the World Bank. It accounts for nearly a quarter of all disability and death caused by disease worldwide, yet has only 1% of global health expenditure and 3% of the world’s...
Nov 7, 2019 | 5G, Business, Government
Citing reports of unlawful phone tracking confirmed by Homeland Security officials last year, Senator Ron Wyden on Wednesday called on the Federal Communications Commission to establish new regulations to force wireless companies to secure 5G networks from unlawful...
Nov 7, 2019 | Cyber Security, Defense, Featured, Government
Twenty-seven states activated National Guard cyber security cells in November 2018 to help ensure critical network infrastructure remained unobstructed during the mid-term elections, the Guard’s top general said Tuesday, predicting more states would deploy such teams...
Nov 7, 2019 | Blockchain, Electric Vehicles
The dark side of electric vehicle production is that the lithium ion batteries most EVs run on require raw materials like cobalt, and cobalt mines have become notorious for using child labor. Now that Volvo has revealed its first fully-electric car, the XC40...
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