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While disruptive, the pandemic and the subsequent move to online education have changed the future of higher education, according to UC Berkeley administration.
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Eko, a Berkeley-based cardiac screening and monitoring company founded by UC Berkeley alumni, gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration for algorithms that screen heart murmurs and atrial fibrillation, which will pair with its artificial intelligence-powered, or AI, stethoscope.
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Microsoft opened an office in Berkeley and is still in the process of moving into the location on Shattuck Avenue in the Berkeley Way West building.
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While the move was largely seen as preventing surveillance overreaches, internal city communications reveal that the city acquired facial recognition technology.
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Lead project manager Aleksander Grape noted that the natural self-defense mechanisms of the squirrel deliverers could help alleviate the issue of vandals, though that hasn’t helped in cases in which the squirrels themselves were the vandals and ate the food they were supposed to deliver.
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“I mean, we are in Berkeley,” said Anderson. “I guess it’s inevitable that an abused labor source will organize and revolt.”
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Anybody who uses the Discover Weekly feature on Spotify will be familiar with the bizarre feeling of not only having their diary read out loud.
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AI has the power to revolutionize industries from finance and business to education and health care, and with the guidance of leading researchers in the field, The House can help set a precedent of applying the latest technology to where it matters most.
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Berkeley-based startup institute The House announced a new initiative via press release Wednesday that aims to support the translation of artificial intelligence, or AI, research into an industrially applicable form.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty members and researchers from UC Berkeley’s Real-Time Intelligent Secure Execution Lab, or RISELab, released a report Monday outlining challenges facing the progress of artificial intelligence technologies, as well as some ways to address them.
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