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This week, search engine giant Google announced a new search engine for the scientific community that will help them make search millions of datasets present online. The service which is called Dataset Search, it trawls the millions of open data repositories on the web for desired datasets. It looks on publisher sites, digital libraries, and on author’s personal web pages, among other places. But it relies on dataset publishers to correctly label their datasets with the appropriate information, or metadata tags, as their otherwise known. The information gotten will aid scientists, data journalists and geeks find the data required for their work and their stories — or simply to satisfy their intellectual curiosity. The new search engine will work like Google Scholar, the company’s popular search engine for academic studies and reports. Natasha Noy, Research Scientist, Google AI, said in a blog post . “Dataset Search lets you find datasets wherever they’re h...

If you’ve ever had an MRI, you know it can be a long, drawn-out, and very loud process. Given that you wouldn’t even be having an MRI unless you and your doctors were concerned about something, it can be stressful–not to mention claustrophobic–to be jammed into the machine’s chamber for up to an hour. Facebook and New York University (NYU) have announced a partnership in which they are exploring how artificial intelligence can be used to make MRI scans 10x faster—The “fast MRI” research partnership, unveiled on Monday, is between the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) group and the Department of Radiology in New York University School of Medicine. The aim of the project is to see if AI can be used to reconstruct MR images in new, faster ways. The NYU researchers began work on using AI to speed up MRIs in 2016. At around the same time, Facebook’s AI Research team (FAIR) was looking for ways to impact real-world AI applications. NYU’s ...

Even if you buy the most high-tech smartphone that’s easily available in the today’s market, there is another product in the market that may be introduced the next month. Since the grass always remains green on the unachievable side, our want for the new hottest smartphone always remains ravenous. If your love for the mobile phones is higher than that the love for new clothes or diamonds, then you surely requires a cost-effective solution for the hi-tech philandering. Since you can or cannot move to the cheap counterparts for your clothes, you can switch towards refurbished smartphones to quench your thirst for the latest technology. This is the favored option for all the high-end tech geeks. Why Are Refurbished Phones Trending Now? The customers have shifted towards buying refurbished phones more than ever because of the peripheral changes in design and slowing innovation in the new models. So, why buy a new flagship product when a cheaper option with good functionality is...

A newly released report 5G report says China is currently the most ready followed by South Korea and then the United states. The report by CTIA notes though that many countries may be finally making the right investment to make this a reality. While much of the world is still reaping the benefits of the 4G, it looks like 5G promises more on return on investment. Take the United States for example, the report notes that the wireless industry is ready to pump in as much as $275 billion which they say could end up creating 3 million new jobs and another $500 billion to the nation’s GDP.                                                            While China leads the charge right now, it looks like its narrow but China is not one to back out from such a race as investment in technology has sky rocketed in the last decade alone. Research...

Following the scandal that has trailed Facebook in the past weeks, the social network has halted its plans to match patients" data from hospitals to their accounts on Facebook, the BBC reported. Facebook has faced criticisms since the wake of the scandal with Cambridge Analytica about the improper sharing of users" private information. This has caused a significant setback and the Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday that the social media platform had not made any meaningful revenue in ad sales since the wake of the scandal. The company had initially planned to collect information from patients in the hospital to match it with their information on the social network, but it is yet to receive any health records. Christina Farr from CBNC discovered the data sharing proposal. Two anonymous persons informed her that the social network had written proposal letters to health care centres and organisations including Stanford Medical School and the American Coll...

Guess its time for kids to own an iPad.  Before now Apple iPads are known to be expensive, but today during the education event held Lane Tech College Prep High School Chicago, Apple unveiled a new affordable iPad model that supports an Apple Pencil. The device is compatible with all new version of Apple’s word processing spreadsheet and presentation apps will be offered to schools for $299 ($329 for consumers). The new device will bring some of Apple"s high-end specs, like Retina display, Pencil support and A10 Fusion chips, to a lower-end device. It will also take the iPad back to its roots with new digital book creation features. At the event, CEO Tim Cook emphasised the company"s investments in community colleges, as well as expanded classes at Apple"s retail locations. Today, Apple has 200,000 apps made for education, according to Apple vice president of product marketing Greg Joswiak, who discussed the iPad. The New iPad apps are taking advantage of Apple"s au...

Reuters reported that " researchers in Germany have found hundreds of links to child sexual abuse imagery on Bitcoin blockchain ." This revelation could mark out the blockchain as illegal. The circulation of child pornography has been a challenge that is almost difficult to rid the net of them entirely. With the internet, it"s effortless for such material to go viral, making it practically impossible to control or delete permanently. Beyond these, the victims themselves face a lifelong stigma and confrontation with the abuse they have suffered. The circulation, consumption, and production of such gory images are criminal offenses, punishable by law.  As such, these files discovered in blockchain, the digital ledger of cryptocurrency transactions, violate privacy laws.  The discovery includes eight data with sexual content; two of the files were interlinks to over 200 other links to sexual abuse imagery. Notably, the discovery also implicates other cryptocurrency traders ...

Artificial Intelligence and robotics have been a threat to human labour that does not require specific and complex human skills. Moreover, it is becoming increasingly popular for companies to turn to artificial intelligence because it is far less expensive than hiring, training, and employing a human.  A new report reveals that Africa will be the most affected by the revolution. The report warns that in less than 20 years from now, it will be more cost-efficient to hire robots in US factories than hire workers in Africa. Nevertheless, the overseas development institute thinks that African nations still have time to prepare for the change ahead. He said, "African countries must not shy away from manufacturing, but instead prepare by increasing access to the internet, investing in technical skills and promoting technological innovation. If done well, automation can present important opportunities for African countries by improving labour productivity in manufacturing". Regardin...