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A report from Belgian public broadcaster VRT NWS has revealed how contractors paid to transcribe audio clips collected by Google’s AI assistant can end up listening to sensitive information about users, including names, addresses, and details about their personal lives. It’s the latest story showing how our interactions with AI assistants are not as private …

Shortly before midnight on Wednesday night, Kentucky authorities located human remains outside of a rural home in connection to the ongoing search for missing mom, Savannah Spurlock. Authorities arrived at a home close to the intersection of Fall Lick Road and Perkins Lane in Garrard County on Wednesday evening after receiving what they called a …

Image copyright Katerina Harvati, Eberhard Karls Uni Tüb Image caption Apidima 1 (shown here in a reconstruction) has all the characteristics of a modern human skull Researchers have found the earliest example of our species (modern humans) outside Africa. A skull unearthed in Greece has been dated to 210,000 years ago, at a time when …

Whilst we patiently wait for the day that Womble-shaped robots replace human tennis players at Wimbledon, we can admire the IBM powered AI technology that the organisers of the Wimbledon tennis tournament use to enhance the experience for TV and phone viewers. As can be expected, the technology tracks the ball, analyses player gestures, crowd …

The current statistics for people who will be diagnosed with HPV (Genital human papillomavirus) for this current year are literally off the charts. And according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) these numbers are expected to keep rising dramatically each year, to the tune of an estimated 6-million people that are infected annually. The …

In England, artist Francis Barraud (1856-1924) painted his brother’s dog Nipper listening to the horn of an early phonograph during the winter of 1898. Victor Talking Machine Company began using the symbol in 1900, and Nipper joined the RCA family in 1929. Wiki Commons One of my favorite movies of mid-century American life is Vincente …

Paola Hinton likes to say she doesn’t sleep, she merely naps. The owner of 5 Senses Spa, Salon and Barber Shop in Peoria, IL wakes up most nights at 12:30 a.m., works until 4 a.m., then heads back to bed until it’s time to get the kids ready for school. And on the nights …

Scientists have announced the discovery of two new Earth-like planets within our own galaxy so similar to our own that they’ve already shot up into the top 20 contenders for future human colonization. The planets orbit a neighboring star, Teegarden, just 12.5 light years away in the Aries constellation. Teegarden is an ultra-cool dwarf star …

The new BGI standard 676 Quality Genome helps deliver on the promise of personalized medicine by providing more accurate and comprehensive genetic predictions, since it assembles each person’s genome individually and is not dependent on a reference genome, said Rade Drmanac, MGI Chief Scientific Officer, who presented the specifications during a talk at the European …

GLOBAL The integration of technology into learning and teaching is one of the big changes taking place in higher education institutions globally. The rationales behind technology integration are multifaceted. First, the globalising societal impacts of fast-paced technological changes necessitate the integration of technology into curricula and instruction in higher education. Second, technologies are entrusted to …