Source: asiatimes.com As commentators focus more on China’s burgeoning surveillance system, an excellent opportunity for critical reflection arises. In the past two years, scores of articles in reputable publications describe China’s surveillance capability in Orwellian terms – a dystopian cacophony of cameras, artificial intelligence (AI), facial-recognition software, and constant social monitoring. Labeled the “social credit system,” China’s practice of Read More
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Source: venturebeat.com What’s the best way to measure the quality of media generated from whole cloth by AI models? It’s not easy. One of the most popular metrics for images is the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID), which takes photos from both the target distribution and the model being evaluated and uses an AI object recognition system to capture important Read More
Source: hpcwire.com Oct. 22, 2019 — NVIDIA with Microsoft Corp. today announced a technology collaboration focused on intelligent edge computing, designed to help industries better manage and gain insights from the growing flood of data created by retail stores, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, connected buildings, urban infrastructure and other environments. By enabling closer integration between Microsoft Azure and Read More
Source: cardiovascularbusiness.com A novel machine learning algorithm improved patient selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in a study of nearly 1,000 heart failure patients in the U.S., representing an opportunity to optimize care and spare certain individuals from a pricey procedure that might not benefit them. CRT is indicated in patients with medically refractory systolic Read More
Source: indiatoday.in Researchers of the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad have developed low power chips that can be used in Artificial Intelligence-powered devices. They have developed Magnetic quantum-dot cellular automata (MQCA) based on nanomagnetic logic architectural design methodology of approximate arithmetic circuits. The researchers are working towards a vision of realizing resource-constrained Magnetic Chips for Read More
Source: edexlive.com At about $1.2 trillion globally, the fashion industry is one of the biggest in the world. Associated mostly with the glitz and glamour, the modern-day fashion world is moving at a rapid and aggressive pace where designers are expected to be not only creative but also experimental and innovative in their thinking, approach Read More
Source: forbes.com Fortunately, in reality they’re not all that strange, and certainly not without precedent. It helps to think about their business purpose, and how much they’re like previous important advances in business technology. That requires a bit of abstraction, a nice word for simplifying, based on historical analogies. As with many things in business, Read More
Source: towardsdatascience.com Okay, let’s first admit that we’re all living in the century of data now. Machine learning and data analysis technologies have already become an integral part of our present-day life. So, what would be next? In this post, I am not going to state what kind of future data science will encounter, whether Read More
Source: computerweekly.com Organisations in Australia and Singapore are among the most advanced in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region in making data central to their business through the widespread use of data analytics, a new survey has found. According to the Data Readiness Index (DRI) developed by technology analyst firm IDC, Australian firms earned the highest average score Read More
Source: robohub.org The Mabu robot, with its small yellow body and friendly expression, serves, literally, as the face of the care management startup Catalia Health. The most innovative part of the company’s solution, however, lies behind Mabu’s large blue eyes. Catalia Health’s software incorporates expertise in psychology, artificial intelligence, and medical treatment plans to help Read More
Source: slashgear.com Hyundai has announced a world’s first technology that it called Machine Learning based Smart Cruise Control (SCC-ML). SCC-ML is a technology that is meant to incorporate the driver’s patterns into the self-driving behavior to create a custom experience for the driver. Hyundai says that the tech is an industry first and plans to Read More
Source: aithority.com Inzata, the first full-service data analytics platform powered by artificial intelligence, announces the general availability of its AI-Powered Data Enrichment Services, launching with 38 new One-Click Enrichments for all subscription users. Inzata’s data enrichment services make any raw data more useful and accurate, and therefore more valuable. “Data enrichment” is the process of adding curated, Read More
Source: news.mit.edu If you’ve ever seen a self-driving car in the wild, you might wonder about that spinning cylinder on top of it. It’s a “lidar sensor,” and it’s what allows the car to navigate the world. By sending out pulses of infrared light and measuring the time it takes for them to bounce off Read More
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: There is a huge scope for India to improve medical treatment by taking advantage of technical developments such as AI and data analytics, former Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya said on Monday. “With AI (artificial intelligence), data analytics and all the technology there, treatments can perhaps be done better (in Read More
Source: newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: With the first batch of 30 students of the Inter-Disciplinary Dual Degree (IDDD) programme on Data Science, of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, all set to complete their course, the Institute has decided to increase the number of seats of the programme, said a statement issued by the Institute. IIT Madras Read More
Source: fiercehealthcare.com Insurance giant Humana and Microsoft announced a seven-year strategic partnership to use cloud and artificial intelligence technologies to build predictive solutions and intelligent automation to support Humana members and their care teams. Humana plans to use Microsoft’s technology muscle, specifically its Azure cloud, Azure AI and Microsoft 365 collaboration technologies, as well as interoperability standards Read More
Source: irishnews.com BIG data analytics is what runs much business decision-making today. It’s a complex field, light years on from the basic spreadsheets and hit and miss analysis of consumer habits of 20 years ago. Dr Aislinn Rice, managing director of Belfast-based Analytics Engines, is organising the seventh Big Data Belfast festival (www.bigdatabelfast.com) on October Read More
Source: ladailypost.com KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE ― The Air Force Research Laboratory will begin maneuvers today, Oct. 20, as the first-ever inspection mission to support real-time on-orbit spacecraft anomaly resolution operations. This effort will be a rendezvous between the experimental Mycroft satellite and a second experimental AFRL satellite called the Small Satellite Space Surveillance System, or S5. Read More
source: express-journal.com Leading software company Zoho Corporation has recently launched a fullstack serverless application called Catalyst which is specifically aimed at developers. Zoho claims that the software is an easy to use yet powerful applicaiton that allows developers to build and run microservices and applications. Catalyst evidently grants developers access to the same frameworks and Read More
Source: wgrz.com SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s latest phone and smart-home devices came packaged with a not-so-subtle message: Google cares about your privacy. Does it? The tech company has had a complicated relationship with user information in the past. Google’s latest steps offer consumers some additional protections, although it’s unclear how much more secure users will Read More
Source: insidebigdata.com Inzata, the full-service data analytics platform powered by artificial intelligence, announces the general availability of its AI-Powered Data Enrichment Services, launching with 38 new One-Click Enrichments for all subscription users. Inzata’s data enrichment services make any raw data more useful and accurate, and therefore more valuable. “Data enrichment” is the process of adding curated, high-quality Read More
Source: techxplore.com Deep learning can help scholars restore ancient Greek texts. Specifically, researchers at University of Oxford (Thea Sommerschield and Professor Jonathan Prag) and DeepMind (Yannis Assael) built Pythia, training a neural network to guess missing words or characters from Greek inscriptions. These were on surfaces including stone, ceramic and metal. They were between 1500 Read More
Source: towardsdatascience.com I hope I know this answer when I was trying hard to enter into data science before I graduated from university. Some background of mine, I came from a Mathematics background, who does not take a lot of programming courses during university. The programming language I learned in university included R, C++, and Read More
Source: indiatoday.in Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged business leaders and technocrats to build a ‘bridge’ between the artificial intelligence (AI) and human intentions, while stating that his government is using technology to effectively deliver the benefits of welfare schemes to targeted groups. Addressing a gathering of several top business leaders including Ratan Tata, Read More
Source: cleantechnica.com The 1.5 meter, silvery gray velociraptor lunges forward, interrupting the flight of the tennis ball with its head before the ball can get to the soccer net at the end of the gym. Its tail stretches out, stopping another ball. It pivots, somewhat clumsily, and runs three steps in the other direction to Read More
Source: hbr.org Artificial intelligence, including machine learning, presents exciting opportunities to transform the health and life sciences spaces. It offers tantalizing prospects for swifter, more accurate clinical decision making and amplified R&D capabilities. However, open issues around regulation and clinical relevance remain, causing both technology developers and potential investors to grapple with how to overcome today’s barriers to adoption, Read More
Source: itworld.com There’s data, and then there’s big data. So, what’s the difference? Big data defined A clear big data definition can be difficult to pin down because big data can cover a multitude of use cases. But in general the term refers to sets of data that are so large in volume and so Read More
Source: zacks.com Cognex (CGNX – Free Report) recently announced the acquisition of Seoul-based SUALAB, a developer of deep learning-based vision software. Although the financial terms of the acquisition have been kept under wraps, per a Pulse article the transaction price is estimated to be $168.6 million. Deep learning allows Cognex to solve the most complex vision application operations in factories Read More
Source: theregister.co.uk Ahead of Microsoft’s Ignite conference next month, the tech goliath has announced Dapr, now available as an Alpha preview, a runtime to simplify developing microservices. Dapr is not a replacement for other runtimes or frameworks such as .NET or Java. Rather, it “injects a side-car container/process to each compute unit”, according to the docs, exposing Read More
Ssource: barrons.com Microsoft has a key ally in its fight for business as companies move more software to the cloud: the people who run corporate information-technology departments. In a Thursday note, Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss reiterated his confidence in Microsoft’s (ticker: MSFT) future, based on the bank’s latest survey of companies’ IT heads. Although uncertainty about the economy has weighed Read More