Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon offer more help to those with speech disabilities. Big tech companies are partnering with the University of Illinois to form the Speech Accessibility Project to upgrade AI's understanding of people with disabilities or unusual speech patterns. The project will gather a set of high-quality, diverse speech samples that will help improve speech technologies. "Being able to devise new interventions and screening tools will help us be more proactive in early detection of conditions in children and help us customize more specific therapies for a patient's condition," Karen Panetta, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Tufts University and an IEEE Fellow, who is not involved in the project, told Lifewire in an email interview. Speech recognition, found in many software programs and voice assistants, has become a part of many people's everyday lives.

The most important technologies in 2021 will be AI, 5G, and IoT, according to a newly released global survey of CIOs and CTOs by the technical professional organization IEEE. More specifically, nearly one-third (32%) of respondents cited AI and machine learning, followed by 5G (20%), and IoT (14%). Manufacturing (19%), healthcare (18%), financial services (15%), and education (13%) are the industries that most believe will be impacted by technology in 2021, according to CIOs and CTOS surveyed. It's no surprise that COVID-19 has upended organizations, observed Carmen Fontana, an IEEE member and cloud and emerging technology lead at Centric Consulting. SEE: CompTIA's 10 trends for 2021.

It's a lot harder to recognize fake videos than you can imagine, including this President Richard ... [ ] Nixon deepfake about Apollo 11. Fifty-one years ago this week, the first moon landing took place. Two astronauts from Apollo 11 walked around on the lunar surface for a couple of hours, changing space exploration forever. Most people around the world accept this statement as truth, but there has always been an underbelly of society who (wrongly) think the moon landing in 1969 never happened. A new project shows the danger of how easy it is to spread fake news, through the power of a video related to the first moon landing.

For patients with COVID-19, terrifying shortness of breath can set in virtually overnight. In many cases, it's caused by an aggressive pneumonia infection in the lungs, which fills them with thick fluid and robs the body of life-giving oxygen. Detecting these severe cases early on is essential for treating them successfully. At the moment, however, the only way to tell whether a patient's pneumonia is caused by the coronavirus is by examining X-ray and CT scans of the chest--and as cases rack up worldwide, radiologists are being deluged with images, creating a backlog that may delay critical decisions about care. One solution, said Karen Panetta, may involve taking some of that workload away from humans.

As much as we'd like to, nobody knows exactly what the future holds. However, several individuals have put their minds, time, and effort toward figuring out what the future of marketplaces, industry, and work will look like to the greatest possible degree of accuracy. For those who are looking to figure out which industries are most ripe for disruption, which are dinosaurs, and how the future of work applies in your own life, these forward-looking influencers are must-follows. But don't just stop at their Twitter pages, as these influencers have personal websites, TED Talks, and more that are well worth checking out. This influencer has racked up several job titles on his way to becoming one of the most popular voicers in the future of work sphere.

Traveling for business can be a pain. Between finding an affordable flight, booking a hotel, and figuring out transportation, traveling often turns out to be more of a headache than expected. This is especially true for business trips, which are typically short and often given on short notice. However, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make business travel much easier. As of right now, businesses are already feeling the incredible impact of AI in daily operations.

He had the idea to build his app because he realized how pervasive the need is for dermatological consultation. "I had a girlfriend who was a dermatologist and she didn't like to go to dinner parties because every time she presented herself as a dermatologist, people would ask her for free advice on moles," Börve told MobiHealthNews. "And if people had had a bit of wine, they would ask her to come to the bathroom and take some of their clothes off and show her something more intimate. So that's basically where my idea of teledermatology came from." If people will show their moles to a stranger at a dinner party, a stranger on the internet doesn't seem like a big stretch.

Six major airports in the United States are participating in pilot programs that require Americans traveling abroad to submit to facial-recognition scans when leaving the country, the Associated Press reported. Airports in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, New York City and Washington, D.C. have all started to implement the biometric scanning procedures, with plans to expand the program to a number of other high-volume international airports across the country by the start of next year. News of the biometric scans being active at airports and used to scan American citizens prior to boarding their flights is the latest development in the increased effort by the Donald Trump administration to implement strong vetting procedures for those coming and going from the country. U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Larry Panetta spoke about adoption of facial recognition technology earlier this year at the Border Security Expo, where he suggested there was already enough information in the government's systems that facial recognition technology could already identify many travelers. "We currently have everyone's photo, so we don't need to do any sort of enrollment," Panetta said at the event.

The Donald Trump administration is planning to expand the use of biometric facial recognition systems at airports around the United States. News of the expansion comes from U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Larry Panetta, who spoke about adoption of facial recognition technology at the Border Security Expo. "We currently have everyone's photo, so we don't need to do any sort of enrollment," Panetta said. "We have access to the Department of State records so we have photos of US Citizens, we have visa photos, we have photos of people when they cross into the US and their biometrics are captured into [Department of Homeland Security database] IDENT." The project to equip airports around the country with facial recognition systems is known as Biometric Exit.

A major conference on genomics has moved its West Coast location to San Diego, a leading hub of genomic technology. The Festival of Genomics California runs Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 20-21 at the San Diego Convention Center The festival itself is free, People can register at j.mp/fog2016. A pre-event "Base Camp on Monday, Sept. 19 costs 699; information is available at j.mp/2016basecamp. This year's Festival offers sessions on clinical access to genomic medicine, applied technology and data sharing, along with artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. Tuesday is devoted to the effect of genomics on health care, especially in pediatrics.