Thursday, April 30, 2020

Artificial intelligence is predicting coronavirus outbreaks before they start

Artificial intelligence has played a central role in the fight against the coronavirus. Cotiviti has leveraged AI to predict COVID-19 hot spots around the country before an outbreak happens.

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Consumers want companies to bring back human customer service

US and UK customers are fed up with the proliferation of chatbots and computerized platforms, according to a survey from CGS.

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Microsoft: This is how to protect your machine-learning applications

Understanding failures and attacks can help us build safer AI applications.

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Video analytics is a powerful tool, but make sure you do it right

Video analytics is costly and open to security and privacy risks, so be sure it's right for your company before implementation.

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Automation holds promise but many IT pros remain skeptical

Karen Roby talks with Macy Bayern and Veronica Combs about the barriers to automation as well as early adopters who are using the technology to take rote tasks off human to-do lists.

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Microsoft Office 365: How these Azure machine-learning services will make you more productive and efficient

Office can now suggest better phrases in Word or entire replies in Outlook, design your PowerPoint slides, and coach you on presenting them. Microsoft built those features with Azure Machine Learning and big models - while keeping your Office 365 data private.

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How sextortion scam emails sneak past security filters

Scammers use text-based images, QR codes, and other tricks to evade spam filters, says email security provider Vade Secure.

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Employing smart city tools for coronavirus problems

How to get supplies and field responders to the right place at the right time is a resource optimization problem. One company is using IoT, machine learning, and smart city technology to solve it.

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Artificial intelligence can take banks to the next level

Banking has the potential to improve its customer service, loan applications, and billing with the help of AI and natural language processing.

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IBM's The Weather Channel app using machine learning to forecast allergy hotspots

The Weather Channel is now using artificial intelligence and weather data to help people make better decisions about going outdoors based on the likelihood of suffering from allergy symptoms.

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For Earth Day, a tech team develops a way to heal coral reefs using AI

Project: CORail, the creation of Intel, Accenture, and the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation, aims to monitor and restore endangered coral reefs.

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COVID-19 tracking maps set gold standards for dashboards and awaken an online community

Johns Hopkins' interactive data-driven maps have been the catalyst for a resurgence in online community platforms throughout the country.

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How US supply chains can improve operations post-pandemic

Lessons learned from failures during COVID-19 include not relying on a single supplier overseas and finding ones that are closer to their customers, experts say.

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Ventilator response project in NYC addresses tremendous need

A New York volunteer tech consortium from Newlab will quickly produce thousands of MIT's innovative FDA-authorized automatic resuscitators, called Spiro Wave.

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System on a chip takes IoT processing to the edge

These smart systems can help edge computing move to the next level.

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Saturday, April 18, 2020

AI and machine learning are making insurance more predictable

Data helps the insurance company, the agency, and the customer make better predictions and choices.

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Microsoft: Our new machine learning model spots critical security bugs 97% of the time

Microsoft claims a machine learning models its built for software developers can distinguish between security and non-security bugs 99% of the time.

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COVID-19: How cell phones are helping to track future cases

Why cell phones can hold the key to tracking future cases of COVID-19 with artificial intelligence.

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COVID-19: How cell phones are helping to track future cases

Why cell phones can hold the key to tracking future cases of COVID-19 with artificial intelligence.

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Project Florence: How AI-powered online learning is training nurses to fight COVID-19

The adaptive education program is now free for hospitals and medical professionals around the world.

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Analytics should strive for better than 95% accuracy

Higher accuracy is better, but isn't always needed and comes at a cost.

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NIST contest looks for new IoT tech for first responders

COVID-19, fires, floods, and other disasters need new technology. NIST's CHARIoT Challenge is looking for the best ideas.

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Earth Day turns 50: NASA throws an online celebration

Learn how NASA helps the environment by creating green tech and documenting climate change, interact with astronauts, get at-home science activities, and more during the virtual Earth Day event.

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Balancing public safety and privacy during COVID-19: The rise of mass surveillance

One tech company is harnessing artificial intelligence, thermal imaging, and real-time surveillance data to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. However, serious privacy questions remain.

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Verizon Media builds search engine to help researchers find COVID-19 documents

The search engine was developed using Verizon's Vespa big data processing technology and comes in response to a nationwide open research data set challenge.

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Telecoms have unique challenges in adopting AI

Artificial intelligence is making inroads across technology, but has hit some roadblocks in the telecom space. Learn what's impeding this trend and where the opportunities lie.

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Top 5 things to know about neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence

What do you get when you combine neural networks with symbolic AI? The answer is: Neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence. Tom Merritt lists five things you should know about it.

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Top 5 things to know about neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence

What do you get when you combine neural networks with symbolic AI? The answer is: Neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence. Tom Merritt lists five things you should know about it.

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PoacherCam helps to save the world's remaining 3,900 wild tigers

As Netflix's hit "Tiger King" brings to light the questionable state of the 5,000 captive tigers in the US, IBM and the conservation group Panthera use tech to combat the $20 billion annual illegal wildlife trade.

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Mobile robotics market expected to soar to $23 billion in 2021

Disinfectant and other use cases will also propel the small drone delivery market in the US to reach $414 million by 2021, and $10.4 billion by 2030, according to ABI Research.

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Google Cloud launches new AI chatbot for COVID-19 information

The Rapid Response Virtual Agent program includes open source templates for companies to add coronavirus content to their own chatbots.

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Coronavirus crisis gives an opportunity for AI to shine

Artificial intelligence and machine learning can help slow the spread of COVID-19 and find treatments faster. But there are challenges.

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COVID-19 crisis brings new visibility to IoT and building air quality

IoT devices can help detect pollution and particulates in indoor air.

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5 practical reasons to embrace artificial intelligence

AI is about more than just robots. There are several reasons that people should accept artificial intelligence, including health care fighting the current coronavirus pandemic and empowering people with disabilities.

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IBM Research releases a new set of cloud- and artificial intelligence-based COVID-19 resources

Access to the online databases is free to qualified researchers and medical experts to help them identify a potential treatment for the novel coronavirus.

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MIT community weighs in to address the pandemic

MIT introduces "COVID-19 Rapid Innovation Dashboard," an all-hands-on-deck team effort between the five schools, to research, report, and find solutions to the coronavirus.

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Coronavirus-related first responder data skyrockets in the past week

ESO's data dashboard captures, tracks, and analyzes real-time data for COVID-19-specific EMS responses.

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IBM Watson offers free service to answer COVID-19 questions

The goal is to reduce wait times for requests to government agencies, healthcare organizations, and academic institutions around the world about the coronavirus.

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It's time for analytics to earn its keep: Use it to your company's advantage

Analytics tools promised insight and clarity in times of uncertainty, and we're chock full of uncertainty at the moment.

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Robots are learning workplace etiquette at MIT

At a time when social distancing has become the norm, MIT researchers are teaching robots how to work more effectively alongside humans.

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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

AT&T traffic report: Voice calls, IMs, and text messages are up, email and web traffic are down

The telecom company is using AI and automation to manage traffic and activity on 4G and 5G cell sites.

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