Hype vs. Reality at the MIT Media Lab
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A feature on MIT's Media Lab, including an agricultural project involving food computers.
Media Article
French researcher hacks into Moscow's new e-voting system
|| Ethical Hacking/Role of Designers || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A French cryptographer exposes a security breach that allows access to voters' choices after a Russian radio station issues a public challenge to test the system.
Majority of Europeans would consider human augmentation, study finds
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A study finds that two-thirds of Europeans surveyed would consider human augmentation. The article breaks down the study to see how location, age, gender impacted responses, and what concerns people had.
Bioterrorists can trick scientists into making dangerous toxins or viruses by infecting lab computers with malware that alters synthetic DNA they produce for experiments
|| Health and Medical Applications Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Cyber security researchers uncovered an online attack that tricks scientists into creating toxic chemicals or deadly viruses in their own labs by replacing ordered sequences with malicious ones.
Future mental health care may include diagnosis via brain scan and computer algorithm
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Experts at the University of Tokyo are combining machine learning with brain imaging tools to distinguish between those with a mental health condition, specifically schizophrenia and autism.
China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.
Cigna Uses AI to Check if Patients Are Taking Their Medications
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Cigna Corp. plans to expand a system that uses artificial intelligence to identify gaps in treatment of chronic diseases, such as patients skipping their medications, and deliver personalized recommendations for specific patients.
AI Can Now Make Medical Predictions From Raw Data. But Can Deep Learning Be Trusted?
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Discussions are raised around the black boxes that are deep learning models, particularly in medical applications like mammography.
Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states. However, neither patients nor doctors have been notified.
Drones: For When Medical Intervention Has to Get There Before an Ambulance Can
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
New York City study shows that drones could deliver life-saving medical supplies several minutes before an ambulance arrives, which could be used to increase the chance of survival.