Health Disparities from AI and Data-driven Technologies

Health Disparities from AI and Data-driven Technologies The healthcare AI technology industry is rapidly growing, reshaping the landscape of medical services. Innovations such as AI-powered diagnostic tools, remote healthcare services, predictive analytics, and personalized treatment plans are significantly enhancing healthcare efficiency and outcomes. However, this optimistic view often overlooks a critical issue: the inadvertent widening of disparities in access and resource allocation in healthcare. As AI and data-driven technologies become more prevalent in healthcare, these concerns must be integrated into mainstream discussions to ensure the industry evolves sustainably and benefits…

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Packable device keeps mosquitoes away in the boonies

Beyond heated insoles, Thermacell makes a variety of battery-powered gadgets for outdoor lovers, among them a line of mosquito repellers. The company is preparing to launch a lighter, more compact repeller designed to go deeper into the wilderness. The packable Backpacker Repeller drops Thermacell’s mosquito-fighting technology into your pack so you can easily carry it to even the most faraway backcountry destinations. We’ve used one of Thermacell’s larger repeller lanterns and can say that it’s an absolute pleasure. Thermacell claims 96 percent effectiveness against mosquitoes, black flies and other pesky flying…

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Digital Deception: How to Spot a Lie Online

There are three things you can be sure of in life: death, taxes – and lying. The latter certainly appears to have been borne out by the UK’s recent Brexit referendum, with a number of the Leave campaign’s pledges looking morelike porkie pies than solid truths. But from internet advertising, visa applications and academic articles to political blogs, insurance claims and dating profiles, there are countless places we can tell digital lies. So how can one go about spotting these online fibs? Well, Stephan Ludwig from the University of Westminster, Ko de Ruyter from City University London’s…

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Machine Learning for Text Classification

Machine Learning for Text Classification Machine learning can used to classified different category of texts, by using various classifiers. The common machine learning classifiers are support vector machine, Naive Bayes and even ensemble models, such as stochastic gradient descent. Besides, deep learning neural network is also a choice for the text classification. Those classifiers and neural network enable us to category the text and even to find the author for the specific text. The general idea is that we input the text of specific category or author, and then we…

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MATTEL THINGMAKER: 3D PRINTER LETS KIDS AND FAMILIES CREATE THEIR OWN TOYS

Mattel is about the change the way how kids think about toys. The company recently revealed a new app and 3D printer called the Mattel ThingMaker at the New York Toy Fair. The 3D printer will enable children and parents to build their own toys using simple mobile apps and the printer. Mattel has built the Mattel ThingMaker mobile apps in collaboration with software companyAutodesk, a company that creates software used by creatives and inventors of all abilities. There’s no shortage of budget 3D printers in the market but they all…

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Thought-reading headset lets users speak their mind

By combining a wireless connected EEG headset from Emotiv and an assistive communication app, California-based Smartstones is bringing the power of speech to those who have difficulty communicating verbally. The “think to speak” technology works by reading the brainwaves of the user and expressing them as phrases spoken through the app. :prose is the app at the heart of it all, developed by Smartstones to help nonverbal people communicate by tapping or swiping on a mobile device. Like sign language, individual gestures and movements are linked to words and phrases: for example, swiping…

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The Death of Cubicles: Engineers Create the First Mobile Workstations

Got a smelly weirdo sitting next to you at work? Need a place to stick an intern? Well it looks like cubicle life as we know it is about to change. If some cutting-edge companies have their way, we may all soon be working from mobile workstations. What those spaces will look like all depends on the designer. Here’s a look at the most notable designs: • Michiel van der Kley’s Globus folds up into a globe and unfolds into a desk and a chair. • The ScooterDesk by Utilia may look uncomfortable, but its barstool design with…

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We hereby announce Tech Innovation Today’s Spring 2018 Technology Essay Contest Finalists!

We hereby announce Tech Innovation Today’s Spring 2018 Technology Essay Contest Finalists! Our finalizes were chosen this year from more than 140 essays hailing from 12 countries. Thank you for your participation! Hang Wu Mingxuan Xu Graham Stevens Fei Yang Rongzi Peng Gulin Kumar Qunzhe Lin Susan Park K.S. Son Congxi Song Tianze Lin Jie Zhang Ruoci Ning Ying Ying Chen Mark Xu Ruixuan Liu Zhe Zhang

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AI Healthcare Technology

In an era where AI technology infiltrates every aspect of our lives including everyday tasks, education and entertainment, its impact on healthcare is no exception and nothing short of transformative. AI healthcare technology helps us to take a step forward to a world where diseases are detected even before symptoms appear, where a patient in a remote village can receive expert medical advice and surgeries can be performed with unprecedented precision by robotic hands. This is not a distant future but a mere reality with the rising healthcare technology shaping…

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MIT COMPLETES VIRUS-BUILT NANOMACHINE BATTERY

When we watch science fiction, deep in our heart many of us believe that’s how it will remain, a fiction. But few refuse to believe that and turn science fiction into reality. Angela Belcher and her team of bioengineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)belong to the second category. They have turned virus-built battery into a reality. Their efforts have not yielded instant result. They have been working on this theory for the past five years. They were concentrating their efforts on a virus known as M13 bacteriophage that are…

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