Reading Time: < 1 minutes Apple, in partnership with the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House Coronavirus Task Force and FEMA, released a new Covid-19 website and Covid-19 App to provide trusted information to people. The app and the website asks users a series of questions around risk factors, recent exposure and Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes IBM’s supercomputer, Summit, ran thousands of simulations to analyze the drugs which can effectively prevent the novel coronavirus from infecting host cells. This is a major breakthrough in the world of healthcare technology where scientists all over the world are struggling to find a cure to one of the biggest Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes How wonderful it would be if AI could infer people’s personalities from their selfies. Russian researchers from Open University for the Humanities and Economics and HSE University presented AI that can judge people’s character from photographs even better than human raters. In the article “Assessing the Big Five personality traits Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with mandated social distancing, companies and government offices have banned the biometric attendance. How else can one mark employees’ attendance? The Defence Research and Development Organization’s (DRDO) Defence Bio-engineering and Electromedical Laboratory are creating a face recognition system that uses artificial intelligence Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Microsoft builds powerful public supercomputer in the world that is touted to be the fifth most potent publically recorded supercomputer. The computer is to be hosted in the Azure cloud and is designed to train various Artificial Intelligence models. Kevin Scott, chief technical officer, Microsoft, emphasizes how the supercomputer will Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Sony utilizes in-build Artificial Intelligence processing in its upcoming image sensors IMX 500 & IMX501 to enable image and object recognition on the camera. The company is making sensors for enterprise-class monitors and security cameras in industrial and retail equipment systems. Companies are increasingly using the Internet of Things (IoT) Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) have come together to develop a technology to train AI models to identify brain tumors while prioritizing preserving privacy. The technique using a distributed ML approach is called federated learning, which enables organizations to collaborate on Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes EPFL’s new Center for Intelligence Systems (CIS) aims to bring together experts in ML, Data Science, computer vision, cyberphysical systems and robotics and act as a research platform for them. Jan Kerschgen, CIS Executive Director, says he wants to get researchers out of their comfort zones and pursue ambitious and Read more…