Apple Magazine - USA - Issue 435 (2020-02-28)

What’s more, the mere mortals produced a similar alert only a half-hour behind the AI systems. For now, AI-powered disease-alert ...

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went out about 30 minutes after the terse HealthMap alert. Early warning systems that scan social media, online news articles an ...

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Computer systems that scan online reports for information about disease outbreaks rely on natural language processing, the same ...

organizations such as HealthMap to use Google data to build their own models. Google is now working with Brownstein’s team on a ...

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PIONEERING BLACK NASA MATHEMATICIAN KATHERINE JOHNSON DIES Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories ...

Johnson and other black women initially worked in a racially segregated computing unit in Hampton, Virginia, that wasn’t officia ...

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In this image released by Twentieth Century Fox, Taraji P. Henson, right, portrays Katherine Johnson in a scene from the film “H ...

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Shetterly told the AP that Johnson was “exceptional in every way.” “The wonderful gift that Katherine Johnson gave us is that he ...

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Each September, her father drove Johnson and her siblings to Institute, West Virginia, for high school and college on the campus ...

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MARS LANDER CONFIRMS QUAKES, EVEN AFTERSHOCKS ON RED PLANET ...

NASA’s newest Mars lander has confirmed that quakes and even aftershocks are regularly jolting the red planet. Scientists report ...

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