
How COVID-19 is Tracked via Sewage
Sewers were one of the earliest and most impactful advents of public health in urban areas, and it’s exciting that we’re still finding new ways to use them to that end.
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Meet California’s New Robot Farmers
Hello World’s Ashlee Vance heads out on Route 395 in a bid to see robots who have become farmers.
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Zwift, 2021 And Google DeepDream
BBC Click looks at virtual cycling and explores the issue of cheating in the world of online racing.
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This, Too, Shall Pass
This episode is entitled “This, Too, Shall Pass” and, in it, we reflect on the state of the world dealing with a pandemic. (Bonus points to you if you catch the Hunter Thompson reference in the intro)
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COVID Impact: 106% Increase In Job Searches In Artificial Intelligence
- Frank
- September 10, 2020
- AI
- covid
- pandemic
The COVID pandemic will end up changing the nature of work by accelerating the adoption of AI. In fact, job searches in AI have risen 106% in the past year (June 2019 to June 2020) as revealed by data from job site Indeed. Job searches around AI-related jobs have seen a 20% increase in the […]
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Public Health Monitoring for Modern Data Platform
Erik Roll from BlueGranite steps through the current 2020 health outlook and environmental factors that impact organizational data. How is your data estate impacted, and how can the modern data platform in Azure be used to aid organizations considering current events?
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Building a COVID-19 Project Recommendation System using MLflow
Databricks just livestreamed this tech talk earlier today. Developers and data scientists around the world have developed tens of thousands of open source projects to help track, understand, and address the spread of COVID-19. Given the sheer volume, finding a project to contribute to can prove challenging. To make this easier, we built a recommendation […]
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If Remote Work Becomes Commonplace, What Happens to Real Estate in Big Cities?
SalesForce, Microsoft, and Twitter have all extended their work from home policies either indefinitely or for the remainder of the year. To say that housing is expensive in the Bay Area would be an understatement. Frank ponders what will happen to the real estate market if you only go to the office once or twice […]
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A Vaccine to End the COVID Pandemic?
- Frank
- May 10, 2020
- covid
- pandemic
- rna
- vaccine
Real Science explores some of the innovations in bio tech to end the COVID pandemic sooner rather than later.
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How New Technology Helps in a Crisis
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be overstated and we may not know the full extent of the damage for some time to come. However, one thing has become clear: digital transformaion can cushion the blow and realize efficiencies even now. Artificial intelligence is one of the most tech-forward ways that businesses are […]
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