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Researchers have successfully developed the technology that can accurately segment different body organs by effectively learning medical image data used for different purposes in different hospitals, which is expected to greatly contribute to the development of large-scale medical AI models in the future.

The study, published in the journal Medical Image Analysis, was led by Professors Kilian Pohl and Ehsan Adeli at Stanford University and Professor Sanghyun Park at the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology.

Hospitals and other health care institutions have organ image data for various parts of the body for different purposes. To facilitate and provide health care more accurately, however, it is necessary to develop an AI model for multi-organ segmentation based on the medical data that individual institutions do not have.

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A North Carolina board that regulates land surveyors didn’t violate a drone photography pilot’s constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services because he lacked a state license, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.

The panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in upholding a trial court’s decision, found the free-speech protections of Michael Jones and his 360 Virtual Drone Services business weren’t violated by the state’s requirement for a license to offer surveying services.

The litigation marked an emerging conflict between technology disrupting the hands-on regulated profession of surveying. A state license requires educational and technical experience, which can include examinations and apprenticeships.

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In July 2023, OpenAI unveiled a new team dedicated to ensuring that future AI systems that might be more intelligent than all humans combined could be safely controlled. To signal how serious the company was about this goal, it publicly promised to dedicate 20% of its then-available computing resources to the effort.

Now, less than a year later, that team, which was called Superalignment, has been disbanded amid staff resignations and accusations that OpenAI is prioritizing product launches over AI safety. According to a half-dozen sources familiar with the functioning of OpenAI’s Superalignment team, OpenAI never fulfilled its commitment to provide the team with 20% of its computing power.

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Excerpt from nationalinterest.org

Summary: Concerns about the survivability of American aircraft carriers in a potential conflict with China are rising.

-Despite significant investments in the world’s finest aircraft carrier fleet, advancements in submarine and missile technology are rendering these vessels increasingly vulnerable. An exercise demonstrated a French submarine’s ability to strike a US carrier, highlighting this vulnerability.

-As the margin for error narrows, some suggest the US should consider alternative naval strategies, focusing on submarines and smaller, more agile surface vessels. This shift could enhance offensive flexibility and reduce costs but would sacrifice the unique airpower projection capability of aircraft carriers.

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Excerpt from techround.co.uk

AI’s quickly advancing and researchers continue to figure out whether AI can truly understand sarcasm.

This nuanced form of communication often confuses even humans. Researchers at the University of Groningen are answering to this with a new sarcasm detection algorithm.

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Excerpt from www.peoplesworld.org

Rooftop panels can provide electricity during blackouts and bring Puerto Rico closer to its clean energy goals. Esther Frances/Medill News Service

The coastal communities of Guayama and Salinas in southern Puerto Rico feature acres of vibrant green farmland, and a rich, biodiverse estuary, the protected Jobos Bay, which stretches between the neighboring townships. But this would-be tropical paradise is also the home of both a 52-year-old oil-fired power plant and a 22-year-old coal-fired power plant, which local residents say contaminate their drinking water and air, and harm people’s health.

“It’s a classic sacrifice zone,” said Ruth Santiago, a lawyer and community activist who has fought against environmental injustice in Puerto Rico for more than 20 years. “A friend calls this ‘the beautiful place with serious problems.’”

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Like many companies, Unilever—the fast-moving consumer goods company with brands like Dove, Persil and Ben & Jerry’s under its umbrella—has turned to additive manufacturing for its prototyping needs. However, rather than print prototypes of its product packaging directly, it has taken an alternative route, leveraging SLA 3D printing to produce blow molding tools. This approach, which it has taken in partnership with packaging manufacturer Serioplast and Formlabs, has dramatically cut product development cycles for new plastic bottle packaging and tooling costs.

Prior to this new prototyping method, Serioplast would 3D print packaging prototypes directly or order metal tooling for blow molding prototyping. Both these process had their limitations: directly 3D printed prototypes could not match the transparency or feel of the final product, and metal tooling for blow molding prototypes came with long lead times and high costs. As Flavio Migliarelli, R&D Design Manager at Serioplast, said: “We have to wait six to 12 weeks before we can give a client the real sample, so we’re wasting so many weeks just to try a new bottle design. Sometimes it’s demanding and frustrating because maybe you have to start again.”

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Japan has sent a defense official to the U.S. Navy to leverage on its experience for the development of a railgun, which uses electromagnetic force to fire bullets at high speeds, government sources said Tuesday.

The dispatch of the official from the Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency is aimed at absorbing the know-how of the United States, which long researched railguns, to put the weapon into practical use as soon as possible.

The Defense Ministry-affiliated agency began the development of a railgun in fiscal 2016 and conducted the world’s first offshore shooting test onboard a Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel last year.

The SDF hopes that railguns, which cost less than conventional firearms that use gunpowder and whose projectiles are harder to intercept, will become a “game changer” that will change the strategic environment of warfare.

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Excerpt from www.livescience.com

About 6,800 years ago, a “mayor” was buried with a wealth of food and riches, including a halved boar’s tooth, according to archaeologists who found the rare burial in southern Germany.

The mayor’s Middle Neolithic remains were found near the Bavarian town of Eichendorf, close to Munich and Germany’s southeastern borders with Austria and the Czech Republic. According to the local government of Bavaria’s Dingolfing-Landau district, the discovery was made last week by district archaeologists excavating at the village of Exing, about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) to the west.

The person in the grave was buried with food and drink for the afterlife; dyes for body painting; a stone ax and a stone adze; and a boar’s tooth split in two.

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DAKAR, Senegal: Police took into custody an activist and a preacher in Dakar after they filmed videos criticising Senegal’s prime minister for perceived tolerance towards gay people, media reported on Tuesday.

Quoting a source close to the case, the media said that the two men are being investigated for “spreading false news” and “offending” the head of government.

Activist Bah Diakhate was arrested by Judicial police on Monday after he recorded a video attacking Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko for an earlier statement on LGBTQ rights.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin is ordering two out-of-state companies to stop advertising in the state.

Griffin said in a Tuesday release that the two companies were in violation of the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act related to abortion pill marketing and sales. Griffin’s office sent cease and desist letters to Choices Women’s Medical Center, Inc. of New York and Aid Access of the Netherlands.