Important optimization algorithms that are designed to solve large-scale problems such as airline schedules and supply chain logistics may soon get a boost from 2D materials that will enable the algorithms to better solve the problems and use less...
Instagram is taking new steps to make “potentially harmful” content less visible in its app. The company says that the algorithm powering the way posts are ordered in users’ feeds and in Stories will now de-prioritize content that “may...
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Kris Osborn
Unmanned Aircraft, United States
Skyborg ACS is enabled by advanced computer algorithms engineered to gather, distill, organize, analyze, solve problems and ultimately streamline key data points of relevance to humans.
Here's What...
Tufts' HNRCA will lead a new study to develop algorithms to predict how individuals respond to different food and dietary patterns. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers are hopeful the initiative will lead to more personalized...
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Social media algorithms drive what content users see and when they see it. These complex systems aim to ensure a positive user experience by amplifying relevant posts and eliminating or limiting the reach of hateful or inappropriate content. But...
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There something strange happening on Reddit. People are advocating for a kinder, more considerate approach to relationships. They’re railing against the toxic treatment and abuse of others. And they’re falling in love. Simply put: humans are...
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A successful YouTube channel can be a great source of income, especially when you have a large number of subscribers. When you have more subscribers, your channel tends to do better.
The Youtube algorithm can often be mysterious for many to crack,...
Medical information is more complex and less available than the web data that many algorithms were trained on, so results can be misleading.
Sebastien Roblin
V-280 Helicopter,
Unmanned vehicles are the way of the future.
Here's What You Need to Remember: If more advanced algorithms for operating in a combat environment can be developed, an autonomous option could make employing a...
NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring the Red Planet's surface for nearly a decade, with its main mission being to determine whether Mars was once habitable. While the rover's investigations have indeed confirmed that Mars was once a watery...
Related topics: Mars Rover Curiosity, Mars, Space, NASA
Algorithm finds ON neurons, which are activated when an odorant is present, and OFF neurons, which are silenced when an odorant is present but become activated after the odor presentation ends.
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Researchers at the University of South Australia have developed an algorithm that helps robots avoid hitting humans and other moving obstacles in their path when carrying out tasks.
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Researchers at the University of South Australia have developed an algorithm that helps robots avoid hitting humans and other moving obstacles in their path when carrying out tasks.
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New algorithms that decipher complex sequences of amino acids offered an early view of the coronavirus variant. They could point the way to future drugs.
Atmospheric environmental capacity (AEC) is an important basis for setting standards of urban and regional atmospheric pollutant emission. Accurate quantification of AEC in the atmospheric planetary boundary layer (PBL) plays a vital role in the...
Particularly during President Trump's administration, conservatives charged Big Tech with conspiring to silence their voices by either changing their algorithms to shadow ban them or outright booting them from their platforms.Conservatives were told...
By Todd Feathers In 2018, the New York City Council created a task force to study the city’s use of automated decision systems (ADS). The concern: Algorithms, not just in New York but around the country, were increasingly being employed by...
Okay, you've got a quintet of action chicks and you need to save the world. What do you do first?
It depends, of course—save the world from what? After nosing around a bit, you learn that somebody somewhere has a computer drive with an algorithm...
Guided by a desire to end the use of pesticides in farming, Carbon Robotics have created a weather-resistant robot that kills weeds with laser beams. Equipped with an AI scanner linked to a supercomputer, the robot can distinguish between crops and...
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Greenhouses seen at the headquarters of the Monsanto Company, in St. Louis, Missouri.Daniel Dreifuss/picture alliance via Getty Images
Xiang Haitao, 44, worked for Monsanto in Missouri from 2008 to 2017.
The DOJ said he stole a secret algorithm...
Related topics: Monsanto, China, Beijing