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Artificial intelligence: a registry of power

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The book is a powerful thesis from a significant thinker and practitioner that suggests a frame for thinking about AI that is profound, intelligent and disturbing. In fact, the concept of intelligence has done inordinate harm over centuries and has been used to justify relations of domination from slavery to eugenics.”.

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AI’s potential to predict and prevent sudden cardiac death

Open Access Government - Technology News

AI-Powered risk prediction This analysis took place in Paris, France, and Seattle, Washington. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to predict sudden cardiac death and, possibly, to manage an individual’s risk to avert future fatalities proactively.

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Alteia and the World Bank assess and enhance road infrastructure data quality at scale using AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The World Bank assesses road infrastructure faster and at less cost by using Alteia data analytics powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), geospatial imagery, and satellite imagery available on the Registry of Open Data on AWS. A road in rural Peru. Rural roads are critical for connectivity, transportation, and development.

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SeloVerde uses geospatial big data and AI/ML to monitor deforestation in supply chains, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Open source geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) analyses along with Internet of Things (IoT)-connected sensors can power near real-time data built on the cloud and assist in decision-making. Forests are crucial for climate protection. billion people. Launching SeloVerde 2.1 The SeloVerde 2.1

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Country codes: The global dynamics of domain hosting

Open Access Government - Technology News

The island is home to only 1,500 people and had at one point only four phone lines and dial-up internet access powerful enough to send emails without attachments. Country code top-level domains, or ccTLDs, have grown exponentially since their creation in the 1970s. Europe – The leading region For TLDs Leading the way, Germany (.de),

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AMILI helps advance precision medicine by building microbiome library on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

AMILI uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to comprehensively quantify and characterize gut microbiomes, with the aim to build and curate the world’s largest multi-ethnic Asia microbiome database. At the core of AMILI’s work is its proprietary platform, PRIME.

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Optimizing operations for ground-based, extremely large telescopes with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Amazon S3 supports the storage of data in different classes, such as Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering and Amazon S3 Glacier , allowing organizations to optimize costs based on data access requirements. They achieve this by deploying multiple mirrors, each one being many meters in diameter, to capture an unprecedented amount of light.