San Antonio Express News on MSN

Pilot Medicare program gives AI a say in approving or denying treatment

Trump administration program, launching Jan. 1, will affect patients and their doctors in Texas and five other states.
Business Wire

Dandelion Health Launches Public Service Program to Evaluate Performance and Bias of Healthcare Algorithms Using Most Comprehensive Datasets Available

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dandelion Health, Inc., a startup offering a healthcare data platform that specializes in artificial intelligence and precision analytics, announced today the launch of a ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

Cracking a long-standing weakness in a classic algorithm for programming reconfigurable chips

Researchers from EPFL, AMD, and the University of Novi Sad have uncovered a long-standing inefficiency in the algorithm that ...
Medscape

'Spike' Detection Program Promising to Diagnose Epilepsy on EEG

A new automated computer algorithm for the diagnosis of epilepsy from electroencephalogram (EEG) readings ― developed by analyzing multiple expert opinions on thousands of such readings ― has shown ...
Wildfire Today

California’s new Wildfire Catastrophe Model will challenge insurance companies’ ‘secretive algorithms’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law into effect on Friday, which lawmakers say will push back on ...
The New York Times

Here’s a homemade version of the Codebreaker algorithm — and how to break it

You, too, can be a state-of-the-art sign-stealer. You can play along at home and download The Athletic’s homemade version of the sign-cracking algorithm, while we ...
Yahoo Finance

Entrust nShield HSMs Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms Achieve Validation from the NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program

The Entrust nShield HSM implementation of three NIST standardized post-quantum algorithms have been validated by NIST’s Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP). The latest firmware (v13.8.0) ...

Algorithm reveals 'magic sizes' for assembling programmable icosahedral shells at minimal cost

Over the past decade, experts in the field of nanotechnology and materials science have been trying to devise architectures ...
Los Angeles Times

When computers make biased health decisions, black patients pay the price, study says

People may be biased, even without realizing it, but computer programs shouldn’t have any reason to discriminate against black patients when predicting their healthcare needs. Right? Wrong, new ...
Inside Higher Ed

The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm

In 2013, the University of Texas at Austin’s computer science department began using a machine-learning system called GRADE to help make decisions about who gets into its Ph.D. program -- and who ...