Technology

What Aggressive Driving Means For Automated Cars

In what they are calling the first study to systematically identify aggressive driving behaviors, a team believe they have measured the changes in driving that occur in an aggressive state. Obviously non-professional aggressive drivers drive faster and mak ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2023 - 11:11am

A Table Sized Vaccine Printer Could Allow Deployment In Difficult Areas

If a vaccine requires cold storage for shipping, many areas where infrastructure doesn't hold up are unable to receive them. A possible solution to this problem is a mobile vaccine printer that could produce hundreds of vaccine doses in a day. The pri ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2023 - 10:39am

ChatGPT Can Replace Journalists But It Can't Pass A Doctor's Final Exam In Med School

For years, many have feared that artificial intelligence (AI) will take over national security mechanisms, leading to human slavery, domination of human society and perhaps the annihilation of humans. One way of killing humans is medical misdiagnosis, so ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 27 2023 - 8:55am

On Language And Intelligence

A revolution is taking place, but we seem to not yet realize it.  Paradigm shifting technologies often produce an abrupt transition when they get adopted. However, that transition is not easy to recognize early on: the effects of an exponential trend appea ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 30 2023 - 1:51am

Bionic Pancreas For Type 1 Diabetes Gets FDA Clearance

A wearable, pocket-sized, automated insulin delivery device has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The company calls is the iLet Bionic Pancreas but it's obviously not bionic any more than String Theory is a scientific theory. ...

Article - News Staff - May 23 2023 - 1:12pm

Endoscopy Gets The Fantastic Voyage Treatment

A traditional endoscopy, while valuable for detecting high-risk lesions, is an expensive, invasive procedure. There are ingestible cameras but are not controlled by physicians, they are just swallowed and the body does the rest. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2023 - 6:42pm

Probing The Brain Gut Connection

The brain and the digestive tract are in constant communication, relaying signals that help to control feeding, and the implication that this communication network may also influence our mental state- as if "hangry" is science any more than a chi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2023 - 8:41am

ChatGPT Is The Great Equalizer For Those Born With Socioeconomic And Genetic Disadvantages

There is a lot of concern about the ability of ChatGPT to replace lower-skilled workers but it will probably make them better. In the 19th century a phrase went, "God man but Sam Colt made them equal" and ChatGPT could give those without inherent ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2023 - 7:49pm

Hidden Benefit To The ACA: It May Help Bring Science 2.0 To Pass

The Affordable Care Act and data portability is forcing health care providers, and the vendors who service them, to accelerate development of tools that can handle an expected deluge of data and information about patients, providers and outcomes. The volum ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2023 - 1:00pm

Can This AI Write Video Games?

Researchers at Imperial College have released a video game that was written in part by what they call an Artificial Intelligence (AI) "machine" named Angelina, which is a clever acronym for "A Novel Game-Evolving Labrat I've Named Angel ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2024 - 10:29am