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Leading researchers join effort to support responsible AI for biomolecular design

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Haydon / UW Institute for Protein Design) More than 90 researchers — including a Nobel laureate — have signed on to a call for the scientific community to follow a set of safety and security standards when using artificial intelligence to design synthetic proteins.

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IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology

The Verge

The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. Yet Rekognition, the name of the program, has also been criticized for its accuracy. IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today.

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Released from court oversight, a Seattle research institution rebrands and resets

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When a court-appointed overseer took hold of the operations of the Infectious Disease Research Institute in early 2020 it was unclear how the Seattle organization would weather the change. Casper, who became interim CEO in 2019 before permanently taking the helm in early 2020, recommended that the institution voluntarily enter receivership.

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UW spinout Overland AI raises $10M for off-road self-driving tech used by U.S. military

GeekWire

Overland Photo) A hot Seattle startup developing autonomous driving technology for off-road vehicles announced a $10 million seed round to fuel its growth. Army and Defense Innovation Unit to develop its OverDrive technology platform for the U.S. Overland recently was selected to continue development as part of the competition.

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Seattle Children’s spins out BrainChild Bio, a startup developing therapies for incurable brain cancers

GeekWire

The structure opened in downtown Seattle in 2019. The startup has an exclusive license to use novel CAR T-cell technology developed by Jensen and his team. “With our clinical trials and our academic programs, we can treat and help dozens or tens of dozens of patients,” Jensen said.

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4 ways higher ed can close the tech industry’s gender gap

CIO Business Intelligence

What is even more disheartening is that while a healthy number of young girls and women enroll and thrive in early education STEM programs, this enthusiasm and drive seems to wane at the college and university levels, where women account for just 16% of those who earned a bachelor’s degree in computer and information sciences.

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Google reportedly keeps tabs on usage of rival Android apps to develop competitors

The Verge

An internal program at Google known as “Android Lockbox” can give the company’s employees access to information about how Android users interact with popular, non-Google apps and services, according to a new report in The Information. The app was shut down in 2019. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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