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How “the Most Advanced Machine Learning Approach” Is Finding New Cancer-causing Mutational Signatures

Posted in Medicine, Software on 14th Oct, 2022
by Alex Muller

Now, with funding from Cancer Grand Challenges, a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has developed the newest in a suite of tools that’s quickly establishing itself as the best of the best.

Controlling Artificial Intelligence

Posted in Software on 30th Sep, 2022
by Alex Muller

Anthropologist Beth Singler at the University of Cambridge studies our relationship with AI and robotics and believes that we should be more critical of those making decisions about how AI is used.

Pfizer Pays Almost $120 Million For App That Claims To Detect COVID From A Cough

Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 30th Sep, 2022
by Alex Muller

Pfizer has shelled out nearly US$120 million to acquire a small Australian company claiming to have developed a smartphone app that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 by analysing the sound of a cough.

How AI Is Deepening Our Understanding Of The Brain

Posted in Science, Software on 30th Sep, 2022
by Alex Muller

"With deep learning networks you can train them to do well on tasks" that standard brain-inspired models couldn't previously solve.

The Tech That Will Push VR To The Limits Of The Human Eye

Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 30th Sep, 2022
by Alex Muller

It's important to remember that there are a host of issues other than just better displays that will need to be solved if VR is to become widely commercialized.