WIRED brought 10 of the most popular artificial Christmas trees into a studio and got three interior designers to pick the best through blind judging. For extra trimming, we checked in on how those trees fared once they were taken home and decorated. Shopping for an artificial Christmas tree can be overwhelming, especially when you're doing it online. You'll find yourself staring at product photos, wondering: How realistic does it look? Will it shed all over my living room? Can you see daylight through the branches? Are the branches strong enough to hold that lopsided homemade macaroni ornament you've hung on your tree since 2004? We got tired of guessing, so we did a little experiment. We brought 10 of the most popular artificial trees from three top brands (Balsam Hill, King of Christmas, and National Tree Company) and hauled them to a photo studio in Kansas.

We brought 10 of the most popular artificial Christmas trees into a studio, had volunteers assemble them, then got three interior designers to pick the best through blind judging. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. You can spend hours scrolling through lists of the best artificial Christmas trees and still end up wondering what to buy. How real does it look? Are the branches strong enough to hold that lopsided homemade macaroni ornament you've hung on your tree since 2004? We decided to settle the debate once and for all by bringing the best-selling artificial trees from three leading brands into a studio for a blind-judged contest. We got 10 trees from Balsam Hill, King of Christmas, and National Tree Company, then found 10 assemblers to put the trees together and fluff them.

This chapter provides an overview of recent and promising Machine Learning applications, i.e. pose estimation, feature estimation, event detection, data exploration & clustering, and automated classification, in gait (walking and running) and sports biomechanics. It explores the potential of Machine Learning methods to address challenges in biomechanical workflows, highlights central limitations, i.e. data and annotation availability and explainability, that need to be addressed, and emphasises the importance of interdisciplinary approaches for fully harnessing the potential of Machine Learning in gait and sports biomechanics.

Annotated data plays a critical role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in training models and evaluating their performance. Given recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs), models such as ChatGPT demonstrate zero-shot capability on many text-annotation tasks, comparable with or even exceeding human annotators. Such LLMs can serve as alternatives for manual annotation, due to lower costs and higher scalability. However, limited work has leveraged LLMs as complementary annotators, nor explored how annotation work is best allocated among humans and LLMs to achieve both quality and cost objectives. We propose CoAnnotating, a novel paradigm for Human-LLM co-annotation of unstructured texts at scale. Under this framework, we utilize uncertainty to estimate LLMs' annotation capability. Our empirical study shows CoAnnotating to be an effective means to allocate work from results on different datasets, with up to 21% performance improvement over random baseline. For code implementation, see https://github.com/SALT-NLP/CoAnnotating.

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Health care information technology company Netsmart has purchased Remarkable Health, a Chandler, Arizona-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and software solutions for organizations focused on behavioral health and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Terms of deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed. Remarkable Health's products include CT One -- a management platform for behavioral health claims and records -- and Bells, a notetaking documentation solution for behavioral health clinical staff. Remarkable Health's products will complement that of Netsmart's CareFabric platform, an operating system that includes resources such as electronic health records and management tools, and which are utilized by providers like those in behavioral health, addiction treatment and autism care. Remarkable Health claims that the Bells platform helps reduce time spent on clinical documentation by over 50%, enabling organizations to serve six more clients per month.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ready, set, INNOVATE! T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) today unveiled six exciting companies handpicked to participate in this year's T-Mobile Accelerator. These companies will work directly with T-Mobile leaders and other industry experts and mentors to develop and commercialize the next disruptive emerging products, applications and solutions made possible by T-Mobile's nationwide 5G network today and in the future. Formerly the Sprint Accelerator, the immersive program runs through July 30 and will culminate in Demo Day where participants showcase their accomplishments. "We are committed to using our broad and deep nationwide 5G network to accelerate innovation and spur the development of new, transformative applications. Mentoring, collaborating with, and providing resources to these six promising companies is an important part of that mission," said Neville Ray, President of Technology at T-Mobile.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning are taking the healthcare industry by storm. They are not pie in the sky technologies any longer; they are practical tools that can help companies optimize their service provision, improve the standard of care, generate more revenue, and decrease risk. Nearly all major companies in the healthcare space have already begun to use the technology in practice; here I present some of the important highlights of the implementation, and what they mean for other companies in healthcare. AI, machine learning, and deep learning are already increasing profits in the healthcare industry. For example, according to research firm Frost & Sullivan by 2021, AI systems will generate $6.7 billion in global healthcare industry revenue.

-- 3D shape instantiation which reconstructs the 3D shape of a target from limited 2D images or projections is an emerging technique for surgical intervention. It improves the currently less-informative and insufficient 2D navigation schemes for robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) to 3D navigation. Previously, a general and registration-free framework was proposed for 3D shape instantiation based on Kernel Partial Least Square Regression (KPLSR), requiring manually segmented anatomical structures as the prerequisite. Two hyper-parameters including the Gaussian width and component number also need to be carefully adjusted. Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) based framework has also been proposed to reconstruct a 3D point cloud from a single 2D image, with end-to-end and fully automatic learning. In this paper, an Instantiation-Net is proposed to reconstruct the 3D mesh of a target from its a single 2D image, by using DCNN to extract features from the 2D image and Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) to reconstruct the 3D mesh, and using Fully Connected (FC) layers to connect the DCNN to GCN. Detailed validation was performed to demonstrate the practical strength of the method and its potential clinical use.

Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced the launch of Curiosity Smart Video Analytics. The highly adaptable solution delivers automated alerts and advanced video analytics technology, helping to make smarter decisions, respond faster to potential emergencies, and improve efficiency while keeping people and property safe. "Together with technologies from Hitachi Vantara and Ericsson, our Curiosity Smart Video Analytics technology is enabling the transformation of critical security operations – from government to enterprises – with the power of AI and IoT to generate intelligence that can be acted upon faster and with more accuracy," said Ivo Rook, senior vice president of IoT and product development at Sprint. "According to research, humans miss out on more than 90 percent of video activities after manual monitoring. We're automating workflow and enabling the visualization of distinct events with unprecedented precision to improve public safety and overall security for a variety of entities."