January 18, 2022
Research Ethics (vol. 17, no. 4, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Towards an ?m?lúàbí Code of Research Ethics: Applying a Situated, Participant-Centred Virtue Ethics Framework to Fieldwork with Disadvantaged Populations in Diverse Cultural Settings” by Bukola … Read More
January 13, 2022
(Science) – Think your bishop’s opening, queen’s gambit, and pawn play are unique? A new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm has got your chess style pegged. AI software can already identify people by their voices or handwriting. Now, an AI has … Read More
January 12, 2022
Clinical Ethics (vol. 16, no. 3, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Rationing Health and Social Goods during Pandemics: Guidance for Ghanaian Decision Makers” by Amos Laar, et al. “The Legal Ambiguity of Advanced Assistive Bionic Prosthetics: … Read More
January 10, 2022
(Wired) – Across the continent, University of North Carolina at Charlotte computational genomics researcher Colby Ford had also been thinking about Omicron’s spike protein. Relatives had been asking him a question also troubling many experts: Would Omicron evade existing vaccines? … Read More
January 6, 2022
(Axios) – IBM has resurrected its sale process for IBM Watson Health, with hopes of fetching more than $1 billion, people familiar with the situation tell Axios. Why it matters: Big Blue wants out of health care, after spending billions … Read More
January 6, 2022
(Wired) – Deere & Co. helped mechanize agriculture in 1837 with the first commercially successful steel plow. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a machine that could prove just as transformative: a fully autonomous tractor. John Deere’s new 8R tractor uses … Read More
January 6, 2022
The New Bioethics (vol. 35, no. 7, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Freedom and Responsibility in the COVID Debate” by Ruth Chadwick “Gendering the Seed: Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques and the Erasure of the Maternal” by Robert … Read More
January 5, 2022
(The Verge) – A man in Sweden is alive today thanks to — in part — a drone. The 71-year-old had a heart attack while shoveling snow in December and was resuscitated by a nearby doctor after a drone flew … Read More
January 3, 2022
(Wired) – But the debate over self-diagnosis is just one small part of the ways in which we are positioning TikTok and similar algorithms not as mere prediction-generating machines but insight-producing ones. While recommendation algorithms from Amazon to Netflix are … Read More
December 29, 2021
(Undark) – To help streamline the work, Wishart and his colleagues used a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning to create an algorithm that identifies potential designer drugs that may not yet even exist. The millions of chemicals identified … Read More
