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Finger On The PULSE: Using AI To Turn Blurry Images Into Hi-Res CGI Faces

For all the photographers out there who haven’t mastered the art of the steady hand: this one’s for you. Researchers at Duke University in North Carolina have applied an AI-based solution to touching up blurry photographs, creating a program capable of touching up blurry faces into an image sixty times sharper. It’s not going to turn you into an artist, but it could work wonder on your holiday snaps! The Duke team’s system is called PULSE, standing for Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration.

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Big Data Will Become Central to Healthcare Following The Pandemic

Big data analytics has already had a transformative influence across a wide range of sectors, and it’s perhaps no more prevalent than in the world of healthcare. With the sheer volume of information that patients are capable of producing and the heightened emphasis on the industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, big data may yet develop into one of the most significant tools in maintaining the health of individuals and even anticipating the emergence of conditions that are yet to manifest in patients…

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How is AI Transforming Cybersecurity in 2021?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the main weapons by which companies or medium-sized corporations can combat numerous cyber threats successfully. According to Warren Buffet, “Cyber-attack is the biggest threat to mankind, even more of a bigger threat than the nuclear weapon.” Therefore, organizations should consider applying the concepts of AI within their workplaces if they want to prosper in the future without compromising their digital anonymity. Continue reading this post to know what is AI and how it is transforming cybersecurity for all the right reasons…

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Data Analytics is the Biggest Breakthrough in Stock Tracking in a Century

Data analytics technology has been incredibly useful in the field of finance. It is projected that the financial analytics market will be worth $16.9 billion by 2027. Analytics has been particularly useful when it comes to stock market investing. A growing number of investors are using analytics tools to track their performance and improve their trading strategies… Read more

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Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Pricing

Limitations on physical interactions throughout the world have reshaped our lives and habits. And while the pandemic has been disrupting the majority of industries, e-commerce has been thriving. This article covers how reinforcement learning for dynamic pricing helps retailers refine their pricing strategies to increase profitability and boost customer engagement and loyalty. In dynamic pricing, we want an agent to set optimal prices based on market conditions. In terms of RL concepts, actions are all of the possible prices and states, market conditions, except for the current price of the product or service.

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How Data Science Is Revolutionising Our Social Visibility

Artificial Intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the social visibility of brands, paving the way for more incisive approaches towards marketing. The huge potential of AI in social media has led to Markets and Markets forecasting that the industry of deep learning, machine learning and NLP within sales marketing, customer experience management and predictive risk assessment within social platforms will grow to more than $2.1 billion in value by 2023.

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How Big Data Impacts The Finance And Banking Industries

Nowadays, terms like ‘Data Analytics,’ ‘Data Visualization,’ and ‘Big Data’ have become quite popular. These terms are fundamentally tied predominantly to matters involving digital transformation as well as growth in companies. In this modern age, each business entity is driven by data. Data analytics are now very crucial whenever there is a decision-making process involved. Through this tool, gaining better insight has become much easier now. It doesn’t matter whether the decision being considered has huge or minimal impact; businesses have to ensure they can access the right data to move forward.

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Virtualized network functions: The cloudification of telecoms leading to a new class of applications

The Cloudification of the Telecoms market: Last week, Nokia announced 10,000 jobs lost worldwide. Telecoms is a cyclical business with the G cycles (roughly spanning seven years) ex 3G, 4G etc – driving the ups and downs in employment. However, there is more at stake here because the Telecoms industry is fundamentally changing. Nokia also said that it planned to invest in cloud and digital infrastructure and announced three partnerships with the leading Cloud providers i.

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Detecting COVID from a Distance Using Pandemic Drone

Because COVID-19 is transmitted as an airborne disease, being able to detect when people have symptoms from a distance is important. One approach, taken by a group of PhD students from the University of Southern Australia (UniSA) and led by their professor, Javaan Chahl, makes use of specialized drones to check symptoms from more than 10 meters away, measuring heart rate, breathing, temperature, and even when a person coughs or sneezes.

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Big Data Analytics Has Potential to Massively Disrupt the Stock Market

Big data is changing the nature of the financial industry in countless ways. The market for data analytics in the banking industry alone is expected to be worth $5.4 billion by 2026. However, the impact of big data on the stock market is likely to be even greater. Automated trading software is fast changing the approach a lot of individuals take to investing. A good example of this, an investment strategy like Fibonacci trading uses the Fibonacci sequence.

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