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Oct 8, 2023

AI: Why companies need to build algorithmic governance ahead of the law

Posted by in categories: governance, information science, law, robotics/AI

Algorithmic governance covers the rules and practices for the construction and use of algorithms embedded in AI technologies. But how should these be applied?

Oct 8, 2023

Study confirms age of oldest fossil human footprints in North America

Posted by in category: futurism

New research from a team including a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, New Mexico, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North America thousands of years earlier than once thought. Explore the role of radiocarbon dating of pollen in the discovery:


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Oct 8, 2023

Treatment strategies for stage IV lung cancer

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Paul Bunn, MD, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO, discusses the survival rates of patients with stage IV lung cancer, which remain suboptimal. For patients who have a high PD-L1 tumor proportion score (TPS), approximately a third of patients survive 5 years after initial diagnosis, and further statistical analysis is required to assess whether co-morbidities contribute to patient mortality after the 5 year mark. Despite the lack of available therapies for patients with late stage lung cancer, Prof. Bunn highlights treatment options for early stage lung cancer including immunotherapy and tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) for patients with driver mutations. This interview took place at the 2022 Targeted Therapies of Lung Cancer Meeting (TTLC 2022).

Oct 8, 2023

To Heal a Wound

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Skin wounds that don’t heal properly can lead to dangerous, painful infections. Taking care of injured skin can help prevent problems.

Oct 8, 2023

Tesla is building something called ‘Giga Water Loop’

Posted by in category: sustainability

Tesla is planning to build something called “Giga Water Loop” just outside of Gigafactory Texas in Austin.

But we are not sure what it is.

Gigafatory Texas is arguably Tesla’s most ambitious manufacturing project to date, and that’s saying a lot because the company has many ambitious manufacturing projects.

Oct 8, 2023

Brain scans hint that lonely individuals process the world differently

Posted by in category: neuroscience

A study finds that the brains of people who score higher in loneliness react in unique ways when viewing video content.

Oct 8, 2023

Flexible brain implant tested in people for the first time

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Startup Precision Neuroscience has tested its flexible, ultra-thin brain implants in people for the first time.

Oct 8, 2023

AIs accurately predicted path of Hurricane Lee a week out

Posted by in categories: climatology, physics, robotics/AI, supercomputing

To make its weather predictions, it analyzes 60 million daily observations from satellite, aircraft, and ground-based reports, using what we know about atmospheric physics to determine what the weather is likely to be like across the globe over the next 15 days.

This can literally save lives — if people know in advance that hurricanes or winter storms are heading their way, they can take action to prepare — but because the model is so complex, it must be run on a supercomputer over the course of several hours, which also makes it expensive.

The AIs: AI-based weather forecasting models are starting to catch up with traditional ones, like the European Model.

Oct 8, 2023

Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet will cause other global changes

Posted by in category: engineering

MIT researchers find that extratropical storm tracks would change significantly with solar geoengineering efforts.

Oct 8, 2023

Is human uncertainty the key to improving AI?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

AI systems assume humans are always certain. Teaching them to anticipate and understand uncertainty may be key to limiting human error.