Researchers at the Mayo Clinic report success in using sounds in people’s voices to determine whether they have heart disease. The team already has identified vocal markers for autism and Parkinson’s disease. The sound characteristics are spotted by a software program developed by the Israeli company Beyond Verbal. Speech patterns are analyzed by computer algorithms that have shown that when...

A woman suffering from the degenerative ALS disease and no longer able to move or speak is now operating a speech computer with her thoughts. Researchers at Utrecht University’s medical center implanted electrodes in the woman’s brain. The electrodes are placed in the brain’s area that would control the woman’s finger movements. Individual letters are on a computer screen in...

States with strong green energy industries are more attractive to major employers, according to a new report called Corporate Clean Energy Procurement Index: State Leadership & Rankings. The study was commissioned by the US Retail Industry Leaders Association and the Information Technology Industry Council. The idea was to rank the 50 US states according to the ease with which major...

Chip-maker Nvidia has unveiled the DGX-1 supercomputer that, it says, trains artificial intelligence (AI) systems faster and cheaper than its competitors. The computer is the size of a large suitcase and puts together deep-learning software with eight sophisticated processing chips. At $129,000, it’s not cheap but dozens of users – including financial services firms and research universities – already are...

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A report from the University of Michigan forecasts that, based on current trends, water in many US cities could become unaffordable for more than a third of the population by 2021. The report notes that cities’ water rates have increased 41% on average since 2010. If rates continue increasing at that pace, by 2021 more than 35% of US households...

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On January 28, Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum Plan to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. While details have not been released, we assume by his numerous pronouncements that he will “bomb the shit out of ISIS” and more war will be ensured. As evidenced by the United States’ numerous and monumental military failures — the Korean War,...