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How new public transportation technology is prioritizing passenger safety

CIO

Each year, Americans take billions of trips on buses, light rail, subways, trains and other public transit modalities. The PTC can then automatically trigger a train’s braking system if high speeds are detected, or it can prevent a collision with another train on the line.

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Katakem’s ‘robot chef’ speeds up drug development with reliable chemistry

TechCrunch

Organic chemist Manuela Oliverio was working on a new drug when he noticed that test results on mice weren’t consistent, because the molecule being administered was always different depending on the chemist who produced it. “The production of a chemical product is strictly regulated and standardized. Image Credits: Katakem.

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Nixie’s drone-based water sampling could save cities time and money

TechCrunch

Regularly testing waterways and reservoirs is a never-ending responsibility for utility companies and municipal safety authorities, and generally — as you might expect — involves either a boat or at least a pair of waders. Skipping the step of bringing the water back to a lab for testing streamlines the process immensely, as you might expect.

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Generally Intelligent secures cash from OpenAI vets to build capable AI systems

TechCrunch

Called Generally Intelligent , it plans to do this by turning these fundamentals into an array of tasks to be solved and by designing and testing different systems’ ability to learn to solve them in highly complex 3D worlds built by their team. ” Image Credits: Generally Intelligent. ” Image Credits: Generally Intelligent.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

CIO

For instance, the IRCTC online booking portal came into India well before tech giants like Amazon and was responsible for many of the mainframes that started the planning and scheduling of trains. Our products are sometimes tested for a year before being launched in the field.

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Unlocking the Potential of Clinical NLP: A Comprehensive Overview

John Snow Labs

Detecting temporal relations for clinical events – Automatically identify three types of relations between clinical events: After, Before and Overlap using the pre-trained clinical Relation Extraction (RE) model. Detecting relations between body parts and clinical entities using pre-trained relation extraction models.

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How Natural Language Processing Is Helping Doctors Make Better Diagnoses

John Snow Labs

They contain key administrative data like a patient’s medical history, demographics, medications, treatment plans, immunization dates, allergies, laboratory test results, radiology images, etc. Scientists can use NLP tools to find previously unknown chemical reactions and can recommence experiments based on results.