It is an open secret that women are underrepresented in clinical trials of new pharmaceuticals and other medical treatments. This has a significant impact on the female half of the population. A new article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association by computer scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Plia Gillis of Tel Aviv University and Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research, describes the problems caused by this bias and presents a machine-learning remedy. "Nowadays, we know that different population groups react differently to a given treatment – in particular, women can have a different reaction than men to a treatment," said Shunit Agmon, the PhD candidate who conducted the research with Technion alumna and visiting professor Kira Radinsky. "For example, Zolpidem, a drug used to treat sleeping problems, clears more slowly in women and therefore it is important to prescribe a smaller dose for women than for men -- which was discovered only after the drug was released to the market," said Agmon.

CB Insights has unveiled its fifth annual "AI 100: The Artificial Intelligence Startups Redefining Industries," and the list includes 10 Israeli companies. The New York-based technology insights platform's research team picked these 100 private market vendors from a pool of over 6,000 applicants and nominees. Representing 12 countries and 18 industries, they were chosen based on factors including business relations, investor profile, R&D activity, market potential, team strength and tech novelty. Beekeepers can mind them through a mobile app.

A technology enabling the hearing-impaired to conduct phone conversations. Studies on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance disease diagnosis. These are just a few of the projects initiated by Google Israel intended to make the world a better place using artificial intelligence. Now those projects have a formal home: the "AI for Social Good" program established by Google and Tel Aviv University. The new three-year program, housed at the TAU Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, launched in February under the direction of professor Meir Feder of TAU's Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering.

When Krish Ashok, a technologist and food science enthusiast based out of Chennai, shared pictures of his father and great-grandmother, animated through a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool with the senior members in his family, they were deeply moved. "They were shaken by what they saw," Ashok told Zenger News. Deep Nostalgia, which animates old photos, is the latest AI tool that has taken the Internet by storm. But, it has also sparked a conversation about the ethical implications of such tools -- and not everyone is comfortable with it. The video reenactment technology's web-based version was overrun by eager users within a week of its launch on Feb. 25, and the site had to undergo maintenance to keep up.