Techlife News - 22.02.2020

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- INDIANA PANEL BACKS BAN ON DRIVERS USING HANDHELD PHONES - CAN AI FLAG DISEASE OUTBREA ...

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A proposal to ban drivers from using handheld cellphones on Indiana roads is advancing in the state Legislature. A state Senate ...

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Tina Smith testified from a wheelchair about how she and her husband, Lorin, had stopped their motorcycle along a road when they ...

crashes caused by distracted driving urged lawmakers to support the ban. They were joined by representatives of the trucking ind ...

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Did an artificial-intelligence system beat human doctors in warning the world of a severe coronavirus outbreak in China? In a na ...

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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 ...