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This Light-Stretching Microscope Hunts for Cancer at 36M Frames Per Second

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Cancer is responsible for one-in-three deaths in Canada, according to the Canadian Cancer Society. To patients who are diagnosed, early detection can mean the difference between life and death. A microscope using AI is being touted as a powerful new instrument in the diagnostic toolkit--one that manages to snap an astounding 36 million images per second to catch cancer cells and identify their characteristics. The microscope was designed by a team at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, who say it's a way to identify cancer cells in patients' blood samples faster and more accurately than current methods. In a new study published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, they describe how, using a patented microscope outfitted with a camera, they're able to photograph cells without destroying them.


We took 10 bottles of hot sauce to Pok Pok. Thank you, Hillary Clinton

Los Angeles Times

Like Beyoncé, we now know, Hillary Clinton has hot sauce in her bag. She said so on New York's Power 105.1, so it must be true. Still, Donald Trump doesn't believe her, nor do Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham nor many of Fox News' talking heads. Even Power 105.1 host Charlamagne Tha God kind of accused her of pandering. I think she just likes hot sauce -- and not just because she's on record as a chilehead in interviews going back at least to 2008.


Study finds machine learning as good as humans' in cancer surveillance

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Machine learning has come of age in public health reporting according to researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. They have found that existing algorithms and open source machine learning tools were as good as, or better than, human reviewers in detecting cancer cases using data from free-text pathology reports. The computerized approach was also faster and less resource intensive in comparison to human counterparts. Every state in the United States requires cancer cases to be reported to statewide cancer registries for disease tracking, identification of at-risk populations, and recognition of unusual trends or clusters. Typically, however, busy health care providers submit cancer reports to equally busy public health departments months into the course of a patient's treatment rather than at the time of initial diagnosis.


The one-armed robot that will look after me until I die

The Independent - Tech

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display


Artificial Intelligence Useful in Cancer Diagnosis? AI Proves Use In Finding Cancer Cells Despite Reports Claiming It Could Destroy Humanity

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A team of scientists at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA recently developed a new technique using artificial intelligence to efficiently detect cancer cells without damaging blood samples. Despite the latest reports claiming the development of artificial intelligence (AI) could end humanity within decades, it recently proved its use in cancer diagnosis. University of California Los Angeles researchers found a new method of detecting cancer cells faster and more accurately without destroying them. In the study published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, scientists at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA revealed they've developed a new device that combines a special microscope with an artificial intelligence algorithm. This innovation aimed to identify cancer non-destructively, Popular Science notes.


Artificial Intelligence: Robo Rules & Regulation

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Artificial intelligence has dominated headlines recently, highlighting the best and worst of its capabilities and suggesting there is still work to be done and improvements to be made. News of Microsoft's Tay, an artificially intelligent bot which was created to mimic the personality of a 19-year old woman, quickly turned sour as it seemed to transform into a'bitter racist' on the social media website twitter. When Microsoft was asked to confirm whether the bot had been shut down, it responded: "The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement. "As it learns, some of its responses are inappropriate and indicative of the types of interactions some people are having with it. A more successful venture into AI was seen in Google's AlphaGo artificial intelligence after it defeated Go world champion Lee Se-dol twice. Se-dol said after the second defeat: "I am quite speechless… I feel like AlphaGo played a nearly perfect game."


Predictions for 2016: Self-Driving Cars, AI, and Brain Monitoring Xconomy

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Whether we have been in a tech bubble or not is frankly not that interesting. What is interesting is that the foundation for innovation is as strong as we've ever seen and entrepreneurs are bringing the future to reality at an amazing pace. Here are a few of my predictions for what we'll see in 2016: So far most conversations around self-driving cars focus on personal vehicles. It's unlikely we'll take a fully autonomous car for our daily commute for quite a few years, but commercial trucking will see self-driving vehicles emerge far sooner. One company, Peloton, is already making this a reality.



Hackathon[3] Reality is what you make it.

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Hackathon[3]: "New Realities" examined what's real in the shrinking gap between our physical and digital lives. In terms of existing and emerging technology, reality is whatever we are capable of. We can talk to our TV with Siri, live inside a game with Oculus Rift or travel anywhere through Google Street View. There's never been a time of more reality-challenging innovation, as our Hackathon[3] teams demonstrated in a quick-turn all-or-nothing competition built on the latest forms of what's possible.] "Knack," the winning project, made sales empathy a reality. Knack is a product that demonstrates how artificial intelligence and organic intelligence empower a sales force to sell to the person and not to the script.


BYU students investigated by school after reporting rape

U.S. News

Madeline MacDonald says she was an 18-year-old freshman at Brigham Young University when she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on an online dating site. She reported the crime to the school's Title IX office. That same day, she says, BYU's honor code office received a copy of the report, triggering an investigation into whether MacDonald had violated the Mormon school's strict code of behavior, which bans premarital sex and drinking, among other things. Now MacDonald is among many students and others, including a Utah prosecutor, who are questioning BYU's practice of investigating accusers, saying it could discourage women from reporting sexual violence and hinder criminal cases. Tens of thousands have signed an online petition calling on the university to give victims immunity from honor code violations committed in the lead-up to a sexual assault.