As machine learning techniques are increasingly used to make predictions about people, there are a few big ethical questions we need to be asking ourselves.

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Exponential compute power shrouded by decoherence and cryogenic requirements—our quest to wield quantum computers is a tale of David and the Goliath. (more…)

In the context of science, the well-known adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" might well be "a model is worth a thousand datasets." Scientific models, such as Newtonian physics or biological gene regulatory networks, are human-driven simplificatio... (more…)

A new type of privacy attack based on wearable health data has been identified by researchers from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Person Re-identification Attack (PRI-Attack) uses HIPAA-compliant, publicly available data from health wearables to ... (more…)