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For the historian of science and technology, the Narendra Modi government’s ambitious push for electric vehicles (EVs) should ring a bell. After many decades, India is witnessing once again the unseemly fraternisation of high technology and authoritarian governance. On the one hand, the government has championed EV, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and packaged sundry technologies into …

One of the challenges for those tracking the artificial intelligence industry is that, surprisingly, there’s no accepted, standard definition of what artificial intelligence really is. AI luminaries all have slightly different definitions of what AI is. Rodney Brooks says that “artificial intelligence doesn’t mean one thing… it’s a collection of practices and pieces that people …

Artificial Intelligence is changing the way healthcare is being practiced and the outcomes being delivered. There has been a scarcity of trained healthcare professionals in the past, and so is the situation today also. In order to bridge this skill gap, technology can play a pivotal role. Besides, technology can create efficiency, leading to cost …

Consumerism is expected to play a key role in defining the future of healthcare technologies as patients demand transparency from their providers and the industry. Wearables and applications that track health information, online booking platforms for general practitioners and specialists, video consultations and patient portals for accessing digital health records, test results and health information …

iCAD has showcased its Breast Health Solutions suite at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting annual meeting, held during December 2019. This included the technology ProFound AI for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT), which is said to be the first artificial intelligence software for DBT to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug …

Thu, Dec 05, 2019 – 1:48 PM [SINGAPORE] To promote inter-disciplinary research in technology law, the National University of Singapore (NUS) has opened a research centre for legal issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and data analytics. The new Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Trail) will be a think tank under the …

CHICAGO, Dec. 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Artificial intelligence and advanced visualization leader, TeraRecon, today introduced AI Sync™ results interchange technology for seamless delivery of interactive AI findings into the report and downstream systems, as well as connecting multiple algorithms for sophisticated ensemble AI workflows. AI Sync is incorporated into the full range of TeraRecon …

Army Multiple Launch Rocket System DETROIT: Army leaders are making the case this week for three key technologies they want to combine into the foundation for future multi-domain warfare against Russia or China. Satellites will spot the targets, cloud computing will share the targeting data, and AI will make sense of it. It’s worth noting none …

Mon, Nov 18, 2019 – 10:56 AM [LONDON] The experiment was conducted discreetly. Between 2016 and 2018, two surveillance cameras were installed in the Kings Cross area of London to analyse and track passers-by using facial recognition technology. The deployment of the cutting-edge technology at one of the British capital’s busiest transport hubs, which was …

Zealous marketing departments, capital-hungry startup founders and overeager reporters are casting the futuristic sheen of artificial intelligence over many products that are actually driven by simple statistics — or hidden people. Why it matters: This “AI washing” threatens to overinflate expectations for the technology, undermining public trust and potentially setting up the booming field for …