A Technology for a Low-Trust Society

In this way, prediction markets are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, simultaneously exploiting and reifying an environment in which believing the motives behind any person or action ...

Why Large Hadron Collider predictions can miss the mark, and a new way to fix it

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it's more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease

WPI researchers use machine learning and brain scans to identify age- and sex-specific anatomical patterns that predict ...

Improved short-term sea level change predictions achieved with better AI training

Sea level can temporarily change for a variety of reasons—atmospheric pressure shifts and water accumulation from wind and ...
CNET

Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...
Yahoo! Sports

Can you trust Madden's Super Bowl prediction? Here's what 22 years of data tells us

As part of the run up to the Super Bowl, Electronic Arts generates a simulation of the big game using its latest Madden NFL video game. This year, the pixels that be picked the Seattle Seahawks to ...
CNN

With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...
WDBJ

Virginia lawmakers look to address data center water use

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Virginia lawmakers are considering legislation to limit water consumption by data centers. It comes as Google plans to draw an estimated 8 million gallons per day from Carvins ...
The Motley Fool

Here's How the Prediction Market Boom Is Connected to the Crypto Sector

Investors can use prediction markets to see the potential range of outcomes for a specific cryptocurrency. Investors can buy prediction market contracts to make directional bets on specific ...
InvestmentNews

Wall Street warms to prediction markets as institutional investors test new signals

Prediction markets are gaining traction among Wall Street professionals who see them as a potentially useful tool for institutional investors, according to new research. Long viewed as niche venues ...
usace.army.mil

Sustainment Proactivity: Using Data-Centric C2 to Predict Convoy Failures

You are tasked to lead a 40-truck convoy resupplying combat troops at the front during large-scale combat operations. The mission is critical, and every vehicle must complete it as quickly, ...