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Tech Companies Are Building Tiny, Personal AIs to Keep Your Messages Private

February 21, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: Quartz, 2/10/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Technology companies, such as Facebook and Google, are developing artificial intelligence systems (AI) for mobile devices to improve the privacy of messaging applications. New AI innovations…

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Voice Control Everywhere

February 20, 2017February 20, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: MIT News, 2/13/2017 >> View the Article << Summary A chip designed by MIT researchers may reduce the level of energy required to use speech recognition. This dedicated, application-specific speech-recognition chip will use up…

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New Smartwatch Software May Now Verify Your Signatures

February 14, 2017February 14, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: Phys.org, 1/30/2017 (university press release) >> View the Article << Summary Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University have developed new software that will allow smartwatches to verify handwritten signatures. This software monitors…

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Mobile Phone and Satellite Data to Map Poverty

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: University of Southampton, 2/07/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers, led by WorldPop at University of Southampton and Flowminder Foundation, have developed a way to measure poverty levels in Bangladesh. They combine anonymous…

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Twitter Data Could Improve Subway Operations During Big Events

February 10, 2017February 10, 2017 by John Daniell

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Published By: University at Buffalo News Center, 1/26/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Research performed at the University at Buffalo has suggested that the swelling of subway usage during large events correlates closely with increases in Twitter activity.…

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Finding Credibility Clues on Twitter

February 6, 2017February 8, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Georgia Tech News Center, 1/26/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Georgia Tech Researchers have created an early prototype system that uses a language model to predict the perceived credibility of social media messages,…

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Private Medical Data Is For Sale – and It’s Driving a Business Worth Billions

February 3, 2017February 2, 2017 by Anna Clark

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Published By: The Guardian, 1/10/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Private medical data is a multi-million dollar industry that is growing rapidly, according to Adam Tanner at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. When medical…

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For Driverless Cars, a Moral Dilemma: Who Lives or Dies?

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 by John Daniell

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Published By: Associated Press, 1/18/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at MIT are conducting a worldwide survey to determine how consumers think a self-driving car should handle morally complex situations. Their findings will tell designers…

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AI Spots Skin Cancer as Well as Human Doctor

January 31, 2017January 30, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: Newsweek, 1/26/2017 >> View the Article << Summary A team of researchers at Stanford University has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that can identify early symptoms of skin cancer.  The researchers trained the…

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This App Offers Personal Recommendations While Keeping Your Data Private

January 30, 2017February 8, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 1/23/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers developed an app that suggests news stories using locally stored personal data. They are investigating ways to provide services to users without storing…

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Give Robots ‘Personhood’ Status, EU Committee Argues

January 27, 2017January 26, 2017 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Guardian, 1/12/2017 >> View the Article << Summary The European Parliament is considering a proposed legal framework to define the rights and responsibilities of autonomous artificial intelligences and of the companies and engineers…

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Net Providers to Begin Sending ‘Pirate’ Emails

January 25, 2017January 25, 2017 by John Daniell

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Published By: BBC, 1/11/2017 >> View the Article << Summary A group of UK Internet service providers are attempting to crack down on piracy by sending emails to users of peer-to-peer services who have been flagged…

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