Summary: Healthy eating, daily exercise, reducing alcohol consumption, and not smoking not only lead to a longer life, but they can also reduce Alzheimer’s risk. Source: Rush University Medical Center Everyday habits that serve as the backbone of a healthy lifestyle may keep your brain sharp and help you live longer, according to new research […]
I know I keep Teasing how excited I am about July’s big robotics event, but it’s precisely because of panels like the one we announced earlier this week. We’ve got Rodney Brooks and Clara Vu teaming up for a 2-on-1 fireside to discuss the changing face of human-robot interaction. It’s a big, broad and important […]
PHILADELPHIA — The US Army will pursue sophisticated data-sharing capabilities at this year’s Project Convergence demonstration that officials said will enable the best-positioned military asset to take immediate action, regardless of national affiliation. “We’re never going to fight as just a joint organization,” Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey, director of the Network Cross-Functional Team, said May […]
The federal government said Thursday that artificial intelligence technology to screen new job candidates or monitor worker productivity can unfairly discriminate against people with disabilities, sending a warning to employers that the commonly used hiring tools could violate civil rights laws. The US Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission jointly issued guidance to […]
LATAM Airlines has chosen an MLOps platform for its innovation strategy, which aims to launch 40 different AI projects this year. LATAM Airlines selected Iguazio as its MLOps platform for its post-pandemic innovation strategy, which will see the airline group deploy over 40 AI products in the next few months. The innovation strategy covers LATAM […]
Summary: Having three or more children was associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline later in life. Source: Columbia University A new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and the Robert Butler Columbia Aging Center and Université Paris-Dauphine—PSL, found that having three or more versus two children has a negative effect […]
Google has adopted a 10-grade scale to help it better judge and present skin tones, a change that highlights the tech giant’s efforts to better reflect the range of people who use Google Photos, search and other products. Over the past two years, Google has been moving to the Monk Skin Tone Scale from Harvard […]
Summary: Young children on the autism spectrum achieved joined attention similar to that of a neurotypical child when playing with their parents. Source: Cell Press For decades, autism research has relied on data collected during lab tasks or interviews with clinicians that are more constrained than the child’s day-to-day interactions with others. A study published […]
Summary: Dreams that appear to be simultaneously realistic and bizarre help our brains learn and extract generic concepts from previous experiences, a new study reports. Source: Human Brain Project A new study by researchers from the University of Bern, Switzerland suggests that dreams—especially those that simultaneously appear realistic, but, upon a closer look, bizarre—help our […]
Working principle of the photonic complex matrix-vector multiplier chip. Credit: Junwei Cheng, Yuhe Zhao, Wenkai Zhang, Hailong Zhou, Dongmei Huang, Qing Zhu, Yuhao Guo, Bo Xu, Jianji Dong, Xinliang Zhang； Optical computing uses photons instead of electrons to perform computations, which can significantly increase the speed and energy efficiency of computations by overcoming the inherent […]