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As artificial intelligence improves, its applications are starting to show up in surprising places. For example, a new website from medical startup Insilico Medicine, Inc. wants to use AI to guess how old you are.
The site, Aging.ai, uses an artificially intelligent algorithm to analyze common blood markers like glucose and cholesterol.
They say that you can just enter these details from your latest blood test and the AI will try to guess your age and sex.
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While the political debate continues, the analysis of Canadian Armed Forces airstrike data answers a more pragmatic question: what exactly did Canada’s fighter jets do?
With the Q train set to be rerouted to run on the new Second Ave. subway line next year, the MTA will hold a public hearing this spring about resurrecting the W train.
High-stakes talks over resetting Britain’s relationship with the European Union dragged well into a second day on Friday as U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron struggled to persuade other leaders to accept key demands.
The Obama administration announced plans Friday to connect more than 1 million students who miss major amounts of school time with mentors in hopes of turning that around. The Ad Council will launch a multimillion dollar anti-absenteeism ad campaign as well, targeting parents of students in kindergarten through eighth grade with billboards, public service announcements and a website.
Student loans can be particularly difficult for middle-class borrowers of color.
Student loans can be particularly difficult for middle-class borrowers of color.
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CINCINNATI, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- One of the deepest NFL rosters could take a hit this offseason.
The Congress on Friday hit out at the RSS and its affiliated groups for trying to "camouflage their bigoted ideology as nationalism".
The AAP government's action follows media reports about the doctored videos being circulated on the social media.
Metro Police are investigating a reported kidnapping at a home in the area of Cheyenne Avenue and Fort Apache Road, authorities said. About 5:45 a.m. today, a woman reported ...
The apartments college graduates can afford are few, but some have parents who want to help, reports The New York Times.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A judge transferred the case against "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch from juvenile court to adult court after the teen's 19th birthday in April.
(ATTN: UPDATES in paras 1-11 with Assistant Secretary Malinowski's remarks) By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- The United States will expand support for efforts to send outside information into North Korea to show its hunger-stricken p
President Evo Morales had been confident that Sunday’s referendum will allow him to run for another term, but corruption allegations involving a former girlfriend are making the outcome too close to call.
People remembering Harper Lee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," who died early Friday at age 89:
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean skeleton slider Yun Sung-bin grabbed a historic silver medal at the world championships on Friday in Austria, further brightening prospects at the next Winter Olympics on home soil. Yun posted the time of 3 m
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON (Reuters) - Google moved 10.7 billion euros ($12 billion) through the Netherlands to Bermuda in 2014, as part of a structure which allows it to earn most of its foreign income tax free.
Accounts for Google Netherlands Holdings BV published on Thursday show the unit transferred almost all its revenue, mainly royalties from an Irish affiliate through which most non-U.S. revenue is channeled, to a Bermuda-based, Irish-registered affiliate called Google Ireland Holdings. Читать дальше...
Standard & Poor's is acknowledging what Buffett watchers have known for years: Berkshire Hathaway has transformed.
(ATTN: UPDATES in paras 1-11 with Assistant Secretary Malinowski's remarks) By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- The United States will expand support for efforts to send outside information into North Korea to show its hunger-stricken p
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's security forces used strong-arm tactics in the middle of an election Friday, arresting the main opposition candidate, beating protest…
Trump Hugs Trees in S.C.
By Carol Caldwell
Here I am on highway 17 south barreling toward Walterboro, S.C., home of the jumbo boiled peanut. The further you get outside Charleston, the more you appreciate why it's called The Low Country. It's not only low, it are flat. (Locals know: pi R square, but cornbread R round.) It's flat but the pines are high as far as you can see. Thickets poke out of plough mud and loam, give way to swamp alongside grand expansive grasslands of marsh. It is pure-T bliss this late afternoon... Читать дальше...
Jim Stack also says the pain may last longer than many would expect, writes Howard Gold.
