Technology
Apple unveils a new, cheaper iPhone into a market vastly changed by coronavirus
Apple just announced a cheaper iPhone model called the iPhone SE. It’s the successor that carries the same name as the original iPhone SE that launched in 2016. The iPhone SE has many of the internal components found in the more expensive iPhone 11, but the design is similar to 2017′s iPhone 8. It costs…
Read MoreBumblebees Solve a 17th-Century Psychological Puzzle
In 1688 Irish philosopher William Molyneux wrote to his colleague John Locke with a puzzle that continues to draw the interest of philosophers and scientists to this day. The idea was simple: Would a person born blind, who has learned to distinguish objects by touch, be able to recognize them purely by sight if he…
Read MoreSolar and Wind Power Could Ignite a Hydrogen Energy Comeback
Hydrogen is flowing in pipes under the streets in Cappelle-la-Grande, helping to energize 100 homes in this northern France village. On a short side road adjacent to the town center, a new electrolyzer machine inside a small metal shed zaps water with electricity from wind and solar farms to create “renewable” hydrogen that is fed into…
Read MoreSix top security trends to watch for 2020
As we embark on a new decade, so comes the opportunity to set new business objectives and goals. It’s a time to consider how your security business can evolve not just over the next six months to a year, but also the next five to ten years. It’s estimated that the global physical security market will…
Read MoreHow Artificial Intelligence Will Change Medicine
Right now the biggest bets are being placed in the realm of drug discovery. And for good reason. The average cost of bringing a new drug to market nearly doubled between 2003 and 2013 to $2.6 billion, and because nine out of 10 fail in the final two phases of clinical trials, most of the…
Read MoreU.S. government limits exports of AI software
(Reuters) — The Trump administration took measures on Friday to crimp exports of artificial intelligence software as part of a bid to keep sensitive technologies out of the hands of rival powers like China. Under a new rule which goes into effect on Monday, companies that export certain types of geospatial imagery software from the…
Read MoreStudy finds Google system could improve breast cancer detection
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the United States and Britain reported. Click here to read the full article.
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