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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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Doctors at UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, have developed a new method that uses three distinct, relatively new, technologies, whole genome sequencing surveillance, and machine learning, and electronic health records to identify undetected outbreaks and their transmission routes. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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Universities Are Building a Semiconductor Workforce Peter Adams With the U.S. As long-time contributor Prachi Patel reports, universities across the United States, especially those near fab construction projects, are revamping their semiconductor education offerings in response. The fastest semiconductor yet discovered, that’s what.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. We're back with my guest Jim Cortada, a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute and author of a comprehensive corporate history of IBM.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time Nature Physics In an esoteric bit of research this year, a group of researchers based at universities in New York City discovered how to pass a signal through something called a “time interface”—the result being that the entire signal acted like it was moving back in time.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? Fixing the future is sponsored by console makers of mathematical modeling software and a longtime supporter of Atripla Spectrum as a way to connect and communicate with engineers. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch. We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? Fixing the future is sponsored by console makers of mathematical modeling software and a longtime supporter of Atripla Spectrum as a way to connect and communicate with engineers. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch. We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses.

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Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

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is like a teenage intern,” said Chad Burt, co-owner of the travel adviser network Outside Agents , “better, smarter, faster than you, but you need to lead them.” In 2024, we will see a new breed of intelligent travel agents built on top of chatbots,” said Oren Etzioni , professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Washington.

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