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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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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. James Cortada It became a commodity business not only because of the chips and the operating system, but because other companies were able to put it all together at a lower cost than 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? Putting in a charging station will cost you some money; it depends on a few things. That circuit cost me about 400 bucks to have put in; it's in a garage, so they didn't need to go behind sheetrock. Is it worth the extra almost 50 percent added to the cost of the car?

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? Putting in a charging station will cost you some money; it depends on a few things. That circuit cost me about 400 bucks to have put in; it's in a garage, so they didn't need to go behind sheetrock. Is it worth the extra almost 50 percent added to the cost of the car?

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

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Hayley Berg, lead economist for the booking platform Hopper , anticipates that for the next six months, domestic airfare will cost less than in 2023 and prepandemic years. Reasons for the falling prices include increased airplane capacity — the number of seats on a given route — and a drop in the cost of jet fuel. On the ground, A.I.

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