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Microsoft NZ spies higher GDP, more jobs flowing from public

Russell Craig (Microsoft NZ) Credit: Supplied New research commissioned by Microsoft indicates adoption of public cloud generated revenues worth six per cent of GDP in 2022. The research, conducted by IDC, calculated public cloud adoption generated NZ$23.9 billion in newrevenues for New Zealand businesses in 2022, or around six per cent of GDP.  By 2026, […]

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errorsCorrecting and Preventing Additive Errors with Machine Learning

While additive manufacturing processes provide unique opportunities, they are generally complex and slow. This leads to many ways for things to go wrong and makes it costly when they do. Typical errors range from small geometrical inaccuracies or mechanical weakness to complete build failures. Usually, a skilled worker observes the process to prevent or correct […]

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Canada

New study reveals serious gaps in research on cancer among Black

In a new study, the University of Ottawa’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Black Health (ICBH) has discovered “large gaps in research” on different types of cancer affecting Black communities in Canada. After conducting a meta-analysis of medical literature, the researchers behind the study found no data pertaining to Black communities on the 20 most common types of cancer […]

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Canada

Federal government announces $46.5 million for deep sea research

The federal government is investing more than $46 million over the next five years to see what’s under Canada’s oceans and develop protections. Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray says understanding of the marine environment is “relatively meagre” given that oceans cover 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface. Speaking during a Vancouver news conference at the International […]

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A New Artificial Intelligence Research Proposes ExaRanker:

Information retrieval (IR) problems saw considerable improvements to trained transformers like BERT and T5, refined on millions of cases. A model is expected to perform better than unsupervised models when the queries and documents from a job of interest are comparable to those in the fine-tuning data. For instance, in 15 of 18 datasets of […]

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Health

Understanding the basics of genealogy and family research

Genealogy is the second most common hobby within the United States, and its growing in popularity. The Richard I. Bong museum held a beginners course in learning how to research your family history. A great way to start your journey researching your family history is finding photographs, records, and even keepsakes. Jay Hagen, the Veterans […]

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The 10 most disruptive areas of research happening in San Antonio

Sponsored by: Texas is no stranger to disrupting the status quo. Across the country, governments and thought leaders look to recreate the success that the Lone Star state has long enjoyed thanks to its business-forward mindset and “shake it up” attitude. As Texas looks to the future, it is well positioned to continue leading the […]

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Automotive

Learners have to travel 70 miles for driving test – Research

Campaigners have condemned the “chaos” in the testing system which has left would-be drivers facing an average backlog of 15 weeks. The scramble for appointments means that people are turning to third-party websites to get notification of last-minute cancellation slots, and often finding there are no tests available in their part of the country. Countryside […]

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US

Now, a lab for consumer research in Metaverse | Ahmedabad News –

AHMEDABAD: While Metaverse, the ambitious project by Meta, is still in its nascent stage, the growing interest in its application in marketing and consumer behaviour has prompted MICA to establish a first-of-its-kind lab equipped with production tools and virtual reality (VR) glasses for consumer research. The initial projects taken up by the lab include 3D […]

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UK

Norwegian government funds research to find out if white paint is

Is white paint racist? Norway’s University of Bergen is exploring that question, asking how the aesthetic of white paint helped the nation contribute to white supremacy and helped “[make] the world whiter.” “Whiteness is not only a cultural and societal condition tied to skin color, privileges, and systematic exclusion, but materialize everywhere around us,” a rundown […]