Predictions
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A new online tool has been developed that allows GPs to effectively calculate a patient's risk of developing breast cancer. The system is the first to combine a broad array of different elements, including genetics and environmental factors, to come up with a precise risk evaluation.
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A team at the University of Adelaide has been working to create an AI system that can predict a person’s lifespan just by studying images of their organs, and its early results show its predictions are just as good as a human doctor.
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Anti-virus and cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has released an esoteric collaborative art project that sets its sights on what the world will be like in 2050. Artists, futurists and scientists have been asked to contribute their predictions. Here's our favourite good, bad and weird ideas.
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Two new studies from Disney Research show the power of deep data analysis in sports. One resulted in a model that accurately predicts whether a basketball player will pass or shoot in a given situation, while the other identifies player roles in soccer from the context of each moment.
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Exciting times are ahead in the high-tech industries with the discovery by three independent groups that a new class of materials mimic the special electronic properties of graphene in 3D.
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ScienceScientists have synthesized "forbidden" exotic new materials out of ordinary table salt. The research is expected to spark a new chapter in chemistry and lead to the discovery of completely new chemical compounds with unusual properties that also have practical applications.
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The close of 2013 gives us an excellent opportunity, though satiated with holiday feasts, to look back on a year that has been filled with scientific accomplishment.
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In addition to offering task automation and data filtering, SRI's bRight tries to predict the actions, behavior and needs of users based on previous activity and active monitoring systems.
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Cornell University researchers are working on a robot that can anticipate a person's actions, enabling it to pour a beer without spilling a drop even if you move the glass.
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IBM's "5-in-5" list for 2012 predicts the five sense-related technologies enabled by cognitive computing systems that will impact our lives in the next five years.
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ScienceThe United States Department of Homeland Security’s is looking at what technologies will be available to first responders 20 years from now.
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As part of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future award in 1987, a group of science fiction luminaries put together a text “time capsule” of their predictions about life in the far off year of 2012.
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