New Zealand Aims to Transition to 100% Renewables by 2035
Electric Shock Last month, New Zealand named Jacinda Ardern as its 40th prime minister. The nation is well on its way to ending its reliance on fossil fuels, as it already harvests ...
Google Now Sources 100% of Its Energy From Renewables
A Promise Fulfilled In December 2016, about a year ago now, Google announced that the energy for its data centers would be from renewable sources. Google recently signed contracts f...
Germany Is Now Home to the World’s Largest Wind Turbine
The German town of Gaildorf is now home to the world’s largest wind turbine. When the length of the blade is added to that, the turbine’s height is 246.5 meters (808.7 feet). They’ll...
Finger and toe fossils belonged to tiny primates 45 million years ago
The nearly 500 finger and toe bones belonged to tiny early primates–some half the size of a mouse. The new study provides further evidence that early anthropoids were minuscule creat...
What Are Data Science and Machine Learning?
Hence, understanding these technologies is very important to realize their right use and benefits into various sectors. So, here we have discussed what data science is and what is ma...
UK delivers super-cool kit to USA for Next-Generation Dark Matter Experiment
Credit: SURF A huge U.K.-built titanium chamber designed to keep its contents at a cool -100C and weighing as much as an SUV has been shipped to the United States, where it will soo...
The Future of Automated Testing
2) Systems that can leverage ML since there are more things to keep up with than a human can see . Developers will be working on architecture, user interface designs and interactions...
The big ethical questions for artificial intelligence in healthcare
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics examines the current and potential applications of AI in healthcare, and the ethical issues arising from its use, in a new briefing note, Artificial...
Team develops new generation of artificial neural networks able to predict properties of organic compounds
Leveraging the classical models of physicochemical interactions between the solvent and the solute and advanced machine learning methods, the new approach makes it possible to predic...
Stephen Hawking reveals what existed before the Big Bang
In an interview with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, iconic physicist Stephen Hawking recently revealed what he believes existed prior to the Big Bang. “One can regard imaginary ...
Satellites, supercomputers, and machine learning provide real-time crop type data
If we want to predict corn or soybean production for Illinois or the entire United States, we have to know where they are being grown, says Kaiyu Guan, assistant professor in the Dep...
Platform uses artificial intelligence to diagnose Zika and other pathogens
Another strength of the platform, he added, is the capacity to identify positive cases of Zika even in blood serum analyzed 30 days after the start of infection, when the acute phase...
NYSCF researchers develop novel bioengineering technique for personalized bone grafts
Bone grafts generated from patient stem cells overcome such limitations, but it is difficult to bioengineer these grafts in the exact size and shape needed to treat large defects. We...
New software helps detect adaptive genetic mutations
That framework can then be used to scan genomic data from multiple individuals and compute the probabilities that individual mutations or regions of a genome are adaptive. SWIF(r) lo...
New magnetic anomaly map helps unveil Antarctica
ADMAP-2.0 is a new magnetic anomaly map of Antarctica. Aircraft, helicopters and ships are used to collect aeromagnetic anomaly data over the Antarctic ice sheets and surrounding oce...
Microsoft’s AI push to help disabled
CEO Satya Nadella announced the new “AI for Accessibility” effort as he kicked off Microsoft’s annual conference for software developers CEO Satya Nadella announced the new “AI for ...
Machine learning finds tumor gene variants and sensitivity to drugs in The Cancer Genome Atlas
Other molecular information from patients may reveal these so-called hidden responders, according to a Penn Medicine study in Cell Reports this week. The findings are published along...
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Tide Over Education Crisis
Artificial intelligence technology in education is no more the future, it is the present. With the help of artificial intelligence technology, the educators today are working on crea...
Leading the Way in the Ethical Use of AI
Ethical Use of AI Despite this potential, the Committee set about exploring the ethical issues involved in the development of AI and how the UK can ensure the technology develops in...
Human Aspects of Machine Learning
Businesses are optimizing the offers based on each individual’s propensity for next actions. For example, when using a ride-share application, I might get one user interface that pro...
How to promote your open source project
When it comes to promoting the open source project, make sure it is clear how it helps the user. Takeaways Be clear on your website what the tool does and how it helps the user Fea...
How is artificial intelligence changing science?
Scientific exploration is going through a transition that, in the last 100 years, might only be compared to what happened in the ’50s and ’60s, moving to data and large data systems....
Google’s AI program: Building better algorithms for detecting eye disease
More than 29 million Americans have diabetes, and are at risk for diabetic retinopathy, a potentially blinding eye disease. In earlier research, Dr. Peng and her team used neural net...
Genetic Algorithms with Apache Ignite
In Apache Ignite, GAs are part of the larger machine learning library. In Figure 3 (from the Apache Ignite GA documentation), we can see the sequence of operations when using a GA. T...
Feeding Future Generations With AI
Identifying crop seedlings from weed seedlings can help incite specific weed control. We will use Deep Learning Studio (DLS) for building this deep learning model. You can learn more...