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Aidoc obtains FDA clearance for AI that uses CT scans to help diagnose COVID-19

Aidoc, which bills itself as an AI solutions provider for radiologists, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has allowed the use of its algorithms for “adjunctive” detection of findings associated with COVID-19. The models aren’t meant to replace traditional COVID-19 diagnostic tests, like serological tests and nasopharyngeal swabs, but the agency’s allowance…
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DeepMind compares the way children and AI explore

In a preprint paper, researchers at Alphabet’s DeepMind and the University of California, Berkeley propose a framework for comparing the ways children learn about the world to the way AI learns. The work, which was motivated by research suggesting children’s learning…
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YouTube rolls out new video page with minimized comments, large thumbnails on Android, iOS

Many changes to YouTube are focused on getting you to watch and engage with more content. YouTube for Android and iOS now has a new video page that elevates, but shrinks comments and introduces large video thumbnails. Instead of comments requiring you to scroll to the very bottom, feedback is now underneath the channel bar with subscribe button/notification options. This section features a count…
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Some OnePlus users find swapped left/right audio channels with wired headphones

With the headphone jack dead, wired audio is a little less reliable than it once was. Now, some OnePlus users are reporting a strange issue that swaps the left and right audio channels when wired headphones are hooked up. Highlighted by , user reports from OnePlus’ forums, Reddit, and XDA’s forums that many OnePlus devices are seeing an issue that reverses the audio channels of wired…
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Vector Institute’s AI makes predictions about random events like market trades

A paper coauthored by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Vector Institute and Google describes an AI technique tailored to health, science, and finance predictions called neural stochastic differential equations (SDEs). It enables the modeling of random events that might affect a person, price, or the state of a complex system — a system comprised of many parts that might interact…
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