Digital Transformation (10.5. - 16.5.2021)

Webinar: State of Data Governance in 2021 - with insights and implications

Webinar: Data architecture and data modeling differences - achieving a common understanding

Working with metadata management frameworks

Data fabric architecture and modernization of data management and integration

Interesting view over software engineering vs data analysis

Extracting observability metrics from Snowflake with SQL

Coding skills in the data science field

Why AutoML platforms are not going to replace the data science profession?

Three roles in machine learning team and how to connect them

Accommodating user interfaces for work with machine learning probabilities

IT links (10.5. - 16.5.2021)

Java 8 IntStream examples

Reminding basics - Java interface vs abstract class

Starting with AWS SQS and Spring Cloud

Spring Boot Cache with Redis

Angular 12 has been released

Docker guide - list of related articles on Baeldung

Aqua Security report - increase in cloud attacks

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (3.5. - 9.5.2021)

Society

Defining a role for AI ethics in national security

Machine-learning project takes aim at disinformation

Can an AI algorithm mitigate racial economic inequality? Only if more black hosts adopt it

AI consumes a lot of energy. Hackers could make it consume more.

How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies

Algorithms

AI is not perfect -- Domain knowledge is a key in engineering

Researchers develop artificial intelligence that can detect sarcasm in social media

Google's AI photo app uses crowdsourcing to preserve endangered languages

Miso's AI-powered app ensures your burger or steak is properly cooked

Vodafone using Google's cloud and AI to retain customers

Grocery stores in Poland will trial an AI pricing system for reducing food waste

An uncrackable combination of invisible ink and artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence makes great microscopes better than ever

Experts develop artificial intelligence to monitor water quality more effectively

An artificial neural network joins the fight against receding glaciers

Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations

New application of AI just removed one of the biggest roadblocks in astrophysics

Health

A machine learning platform to estimate anti-SARS-CoV-2 activities

Trial demonstrates early AI-guided detection of heart disease in routine practice

Artificial intelligence system may improve diagnosis of complicated metastatic cancers

AI spots individual neurons in the eye better than human experts

Robots

Why robots need reflexes - interview

Need a snack on the go? Kroger tests drone delivery program in Ohio that could help

New drone techniques to survey wildlife

Smart magnetic soft materials to develop artificial muscles and therapeutic robots

Robotic flexing: biologically inspired artificial muscles made from motor proteins

Muscle-fiber inspired pneumatic artificial muscles for multiple-mode actuations

Cars

Tesla Robotaxi rollout gets supports from FL Mayor advocating for Boring Company tunnels

The Station: Lyft sells its self-driving unit, Uber makes a big product push and Revel jumps into ride-hailing

VW will design its own chips for self-driving cars

Volkswagen says it can profitably sell a self-driving system for €7 an hour

Argo's new lidar sensor could help Ford, VW deploy self-driving vehicles at scale

Argo AI says its latest LiDAR sensor has a 400-meter range

GM CEO Mary Barra wants to sell personal autonomous vehicles using Cruise's self-driving tech by 2030

Pioneering study explores passengers' experiences of self-driving cars in winter conditions

SMART evaluates impact of competition between autonomous vehicles and public transit

Hardware

Scientists at NREL report new synapse-like phototransistor

New synapse-like phototransistor

Lightmatter's photonic AI ambitions light up an $80M B round

Brains

Animals laugh too, analysis of vocalization data suggests

The longer the yawn, the bigger the brain

Computational model demonstrates similarity in how humans and insects learn about their surroundings

The cerebellum may have played an important role in the evolution of the human brain

Unique characteristics of human neurons: These findings may have implications for brain disease, disorders

How proteins control information processing in the brain

Neural mechanism of autonomous learning uncovered

Study reveals the gateway to conscious awareness

How we retrieve our knowledge about the world

The sensitive brain at rest

A sleep expert explains what happens to your brain when you dream

Why we remember more by reading—especially print—than from audio or video

Researchers wirelessly record human brain activity during normal life activities

New imaging technique captures how brain moves in stunning detail, holds diagnostic potential

Mini 3D brain models could speed up search for MS treatments

Digital Transformation (3.5. - 9.5.2021)

Webinar: Data in the cloud with Google Big Query

Data governance - a crucial part of your business strategy

Data repository strategies and data warehouses

Serverless Data API - your new database?

Dividing MLOps into five operations groups

Integrating machine learning models with Jenkins and Docker

MLOps level 0: Manual pipelines

MLOps level 1: Continuous training

IT links (3.5. - 9.5.2021)

JEP 413: Example code snippets with in Java API Documentation

Comparing Java records vs Lombok's @Data vs Kotlin's data classes

Logging out - should it be GET or POST?

AWS is introducing CloudFront Functions

AWS Identity and Access Management celebrates 10th birthday

More methods = better code

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (26.4. - 2.5.2021)

Society

Deepfake satellite images pose serious military and political challenges

NYPD stops using Boston Dynamics' robodog following backlash

The EU's proposed AI laws would regulate robot surgeons but not the military

Algorithms

Sounds familiar: A speaker identity-controllable framework for machine speech translation

Computer vision inches toward 'common sense' with Facebook's latest research

Computer vision in AI: The data needed to succeed

Using AI to gauge the emotional state of cows and pigs

Neural nets used to rethink material design

Toward new solar cells with active learning

Machine learning algorithm helps unravel the physics underlying quantum systems

Health

Innovative rapid COVID-19 test platform pairs mass spectrometry with machine learning

New machine learning-based tool to help physicians determine best test for chest pain

Researchers use AI to detect wrist fractures

Personalizing cancer treatment through machine learning

The robot surgeon will see you now

Robots

Israel developing AI 'super-brain' to run automated attacks in battlefield

Army technique enhances robot battlefield operations

Product features of robotic lawn mowers determine danger to hedgehogs

Successful deployment of autonomous lander to deepest part of global ocean

Counting flying foxes by using drones equipped with thermal cameras

Wingcopter debuts a triple-drop drone to create 'logistical highways in the sky'

Exyn Technologies' drones achieve autonomy milestone with on-board mapping

Future drones likely to resemble 300-million-year-old flying machine

New law of physics helps humans and robots grasp the friction of touch

How to level up soft robotics

DNA-inspired 'supercoiling' fibers could make powerful artificial muscles for robots

Smart dielectric elastomers for self-healing soft robots

Helping robots analyze their surroundings

Cognitive neuroscience could pave the way for emotionally intelligent robots

Cars

Luminar will bring its LiDAR tech to Airbus planes and helicopters

UK says basic self-driving cars could be allowed by the end of 2021

Hardware

New brain-like computing device simulates human learning

Brains

Transparent fish without a skull roof becomes a model organism for neurophysiology

Do fish feel pain? Research team says it's likely

Mammals evolved big brains after big disasters

‘Big-brained’ mammals may just have small bodies, study suggests

Brain development is surprisingly similar between humans and other primates

Can a newborn's brain discriminate speech sounds?

How the brain encodes social network structure

A new theory for what's happening in the brain when something looks familiar

How does the brain flexibly process complex information?

Study identifies diverse spectrum of neurons that govern movement

Ultra-high field MRI detects differences in brain's 'hippocampus'

Navigating the squircle: Hippocampal maps predict context-dependent behavior

Study examines experience-dependent contextual codes in the hippocampus

Subtle differences in structure and function of the hippocampus in people with Down syndrome

Anesthesia doesn't simply turn off the brain, it changes its rhythms

Digital Transformation (26.4. - 2.5.2021)

Webinar: Master Data Management - Aligning data, process, and governance - strategies for gaining value from MDM initiative, models of data governance

Data-first architecture for digital transformation

Data cleaning is also the process of data analysis

Moving from a database mindset to a data lake mindset

Don't hire so many data scientists, consider other roles also

IT links (26.4. - 2.5.2021)

Compile-time constants in Java

Working with Java Vector API

Deep stubs with Mockito - for chain method stubbing

Cucumber tags with JUnit 5 

Comprehensive guide to Jenkins declarative pipeline

An introduction to AWS SageMaker

Optimizing AWS Lambda memory

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (19.4. - 25.4.2021)

Society

ACLU and 70 other organizations ask DHS to stop using Clearview AI

Senators want to block government agencies from buying Clearview AI data

Dutch politicians were tricked by a deepfake video chat

A growing problem of 'deepfake geography': How AI falsifies satellite images

EU outlines ambitious AI regulations focused on risky uses

New AI tool tracks evolution of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media

AI algorithms can influence people's voting and dating decisions in experiments

Researchers use AI to empower environmental regulators

Algorithms

Sony's 'FlavorGraph' uses AI to predict how ingredients will pair together

SMART breakthrough to enhance travel behavior research with artificial neural networks

Army researchers create pioneering approach to real-time conversational AI 

Teaching recurrent neural networks to infer global temporal structure from local examples

3D deep neural network precisely reconstructs freely-behaving animal's movements

Machine learning model generates realistic seismic waveforms

DeepShake uses machine learning to rapidly estimate earthquake shaking intensity

An easy-to-use platform is a gateway to AI in microscopy

Understanding interfaces of hybrid materials with machine learning

AI agent helps identify material properties faster

Can machine learning improve debris flow warning?

New AI tool calculates materials' stress and strain based on photos

Health

Are medical AI devices evaluated appropriately?

Robotic infrastructure elements proposed to bolster performance of infectious hospitals

Direct-to-consumer medical machine learning and artificial intelligence applications

Artificial intelligence model predicts which key of the immune system opens the locks of coronavirus

AI-based system could help triage brain MRIs

Newly developed AI uses combination of ECG and X-ray results to diagnose arrhythmic disorders

Artificial intelligence could create better outcomes for bowel cancer patients

Robots

UK drone startup sees.ai gets go ahead to trial beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights

Study explores inner life of AI with robot that ‘thinks’ out loud

The ANYmal inspection robot gives Spot some four-legged competition

Next generation of swimming biobots can self-train, showing striking speed and strength

Simple robots, smart algorithms

Cars

Elon Musk: Data recovered 'so far' shows Autopilot not enabled in Houston crash

Tesla Autopilot 'easily tricked' by Consumer Reports in bizarre test

This Tesla analyst just destroyed the Consumer Reports self-driving trick test

NC driverless shuttle has a new mission at Kitty Hawk’s Wright Brothers Memorial

Driverless shuttles will soon zip tourists through Yellowstone. How do they work?

Self-propelling self-navigating vehicles a step closer

Hardware

Combining light, superconductors could boost AI capabilities

Brain-on-a-chip would need little training

Brains

Mice master complex thinking with a remarkable capacity for abstraction

Know your ally: Cooperative male dolphins can tell who's on their team

Travel paths of primates show how their minds work

From individual receptors toward whole-brain function

You don't 'think like' a man or woman: Brain studies weaken evidence for neurological sex differences

Sexual receptivity and rejection may be orchestrated by the same brain region

Value and neural representations during goal-directed behavior

Shedding light on the robustness of short-term memory during distractions

How we know whether and when to pay attention

Scientists reveal origin of neuronal diversity in hypothalamus

Tiny implantable tool for light-sheet imaging of brain activity

Fast brainwave oscillations identify and localize epileptic brain