Advancement of artificial intelligence opens health data privacy to attack
Advances in artificial intelligence have created new threats to the privacy of health data, a new UC Berkeley study shows.
Dec 24, 2018
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Emotion recognition has a privacy problem—here's how to fix it
With devices listening everywhere you go, privacy concerns are endemic to advancing technology. Especially sensitive are different techniques powered by audio from your smartphones and speakers, putting consumers in a constant ...
Feb 21, 2020
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Machine learning helps researchers identify hit songs with 97% accuracy
Every day, tens of thousands of songs are released. This constant stream of options makes it difficult for streaming services and radio stations to choose which songs to add to playlists. To find the ones that will resonate ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Computer Sciences
A flexible Bayesian framework for unbiased estimation of timescales
An international team of researchers from Tübingen and Cold Spring Harbor (New York) has found a pioneering way of determining at what pace changes typically happen. The new method avoids previous systematic errors in estimating ...
Mar 25, 2022
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Internet
New study reveals why Facebook ads can miss target
New research from North Carolina State University offers insight into why Facebook's targeted advertising can sometimes be more like a wild pitch. Researchers already knew Facebook creates interest profiles for users based ...
Mar 28, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Big data can render some as 'low-resolution citizens'
In India, a government database where 1.25 billion residents are identified with fingerprints and photographs has created a bureaucratic infrastructure, that while meant to bring marginalized citizens into the fold, can sometimes ...
Oct 28, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers use AI, Google Street View to predict household energy costs on large scale
Low-income households in the United States are bearing an energy burden that is three times that of the average household, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. In total, more than 46 million U.S. households carry a ...
Feb 27, 2024
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Algorithms trained on historical data make more accurate forecasts of population changes than demographic modeling
Machine learning algorithms can be used to make accurate forecasts about changes in population, according to research published in the International Journal of Data Science. The work demonstrates that the best of the available ...
May 17, 2022
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Security
The best way to protect personal biomedical data from hackers could be to treat the problem like a game
Game theory, which tries to predict how the behavior of competitors influences the choices the other players make, can help researchers find the best ways to share biomedical data while protecting the anonymity of the people ...
Dec 16, 2021
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