The Innovation Report
How AI Can Transform Psychiatry
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...
Collaboration
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...
Machine Learning Accelerates NOAA Fish Surveys
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...
Drones, Apps, Tech Transform Healthcare in Africa
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 health...
FCC: Enforce Strict 5G Security Standards
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...
National Guard Beefing Up Cyber Security Ahead of 2020 Election
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...
Volvo’S Blockchain to Show Cobalt Not Mined by Children
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...
NYC IoT System to Reboot Malfunctioning Signals
Traffic engineers in New York City will soon be able to reboot malfunctioning stoplights without leaving their desks, thanks to a new IoT project. The city's Department of Transportation is working with Transition Networks to deploy...
Tiny ‘Paper Bird’ Robot Performs Operations Inide Human Body
Scientists have developed a “paper bird” robot that is small enough to fit inside the human body to perform operations. Built by researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Zurich, the microscopic robots use tiny, programmable magnets for it to be...
Pentagon Publishes Guide to Ethical Wartime Use of AI
A Pentagon advisory board has published a set of guidelines on the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) during warfare. In "AI Principles: Recommendations on the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence by the Department of Defense," the Defense...
