Microsoft

Human-centered AI

Today, we’re dropping the Copilot Fall Release, a big step forward in making AI more personal, useful, and human-centered. ...
justthenews

Watchdog claims Biden-era DoD grants are going to research using human fetus parts in animal tests

A government watchdog on Wednesday published a study that found Department of Defense (DoD) grants awarded under the Biden administration are still being used to conduct animal studies with tissue ...
Frontiers

High intensity human activity limits ultra-high altitude soil microbial community dispersal and keystone taxa distribution in southeastern Tibetan Plateau

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, recognized as a global biodiversity hotspot with extreme climatic conditions and ecological sensitivity, which becomes a critical natural laboratory for studying ecosystem ...
IEEE

Contrastive Learning for Zero-Shot Human Activity Recognition Using Labeled Simple Actions on Wearable Devices

Abstract: Existing Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches for sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) often rely on external semantic information—such as attribute annotations or textual ...
Fox News

Chicago mayor says 'unstable human being' Trump must be 'checked' on military use in US cities

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson appeared on CNN Tuesday, asserting President Donald Trump is an "unstable human being" who must be "checked" on his use of the military in U.S. cities. "This president is ...
GitHub

PacBio human WGS call_variant tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.DataLossError(s)

I am processing the data for a large-scale PacBio human WGS sequencing project, and I encounter errors after migration to DV v1.9. I did not have these errors with v1.6.1 (I did not use v1.8). These ...
Biometric Companies

Guidance on police use of live facial recognition in the works: UK minister

The UK government is moving ahead with plans to greenlight the use of live facial recognition technology (FRT) by police forces across the nation, but says more parameters around use are needed before ...
IEEE

Fed-Siamese: Few-shot RFID Human Activity Recognition with Federated Meta-learning

Abstract: In recent years, wireless radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology has shown great potential in human activity recognition (HAR) due to its passive sensing capability, low deployment ...
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How Scientists Are Using Ultrasound To Deactivate Parts Of The Human Brain

Ultrasound is not only for imaging — scientists have discovered it can deactivate parts of the brain. This documentary explores the science and the potential consequences. Kind fishermen rescue ...
GitHub

Face Recognition using Tensorflow

The code is tested using Tensorflow r1.7 under Ubuntu 14.04 with Python 2.7 and Python 3.5. The test cases can be found here and the results can be found here. 2018-04-10 Added new models trained on ...