Predictive AI Spots COVID-19 Patients with Life Threatening ‘Wet Lung’
As the rise in COVID-19 cases threatens to overwhelm healthcare facilities in areas hard hit by the coronavirus (including New York City, where the USNS Comfort, pictured below, has ...Full Article
Home Depot, IHG and the 5 Principles of IT Management in a Multi-Cloud World
Proliferation of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures has resulted in rapid and remarkable technological advances. But it has also introduced monumental, multi-faceted complexities into IT infrastructure management, including: Managing multiple ...Full Article
Kubernetes Gains Stability, New Features
This year’s first update of the de facto standard Kubernetes cluster orchestrator includes 38 enhancements, of which nearly half have been declared “stable” features. Kubernetes 1.18 released this week ...Full Article
Undeterred, VCs Bet on Cloud, Data Startups
If the global economy is to recover from a pandemic that has so far killed tens of thousands while disrupting supply chains and causing widespread unemployment, the technology sector ...Full Article
Cash Prizes for COVID-19 AI Contest Testing Data Scientists’ NLP Smarts
Ten thousand dollars in prize money is available to data scientists with natural language processing expertise competing in a contest designed to help rid the world of coronavirus. Kaggle, ...Full Article
Digital Twins of Cities Simulate Coronavirus Public Policy Impacts
President Trump’s stated desire that the country be “opened up” from social distancing by Easter (April 12) is a hotly debated coronavirus issue in political, media and healthcare circles. ...Full Article
Fighting AI Bias: Explainability, Holistic Data Sets and Other Best Practices
Most companies and consumers are familiar with AI bias and how it can manifest. Whether it’s AI-powered facial recognition technology that fails to accurately identify minorities and women, or ...Full Article
Feds, Tech Industry Mull Use of Cell Phone Data for COVID-19 Hot Spot Analytics
Google and a host of other technology companies are in discussions with the federal government and health experts over the use of Americans’ cell phone tracking data to analyze ...Full Article
5 Tech Giants Combine to Combat Coronavirus Misinformation, Fraud; Companies Issue Pandemic Policies
This article is an updated version of a story first published on March 17. In the face of a report warning that COVID-19 could kill more than 2 million ...Full Article
Crowdsourcing at Massive Scale Takes on COVID-19
For gamers, fighting against a global crisis is usually pure fantasy seen in a console – but now, it’s looking more like a reality. As supercomputers around the world ...Full Article
