In pre-release, Google’s AI cloud service now includes continuous evaluation of trained machine learning models by assigning human reviewers to provide “ground truth” labels for prediction or allowing developers to provide their own ground truth labels.

Otherwise known as Google-in-the-middle.

Researchers from two universities in Europe have published a method they say is able to correctly re-identify 99.98% of individuals in anonymized data sets with just 15 demographic attributes.

The internet knows I’m a Mets’ fan. (Yes, I’m possessed.)

Do you or your 3rd parties outsource development, IT support or operational activities to India? If so, you might follow the debate over whether Huawei should join India’s 5G trials.

In June, a Huawei executive pledged there’ll be “no back door” - a commitment India’s senior scientific advisor isn’t buying.

Concerns about national security and 5G’s roll-out remain in the US. In November, senators called for a 5G czar.

While half of Americans have some health wearable or monitoring device, many are frustrated by health providers’ inability to marshal this data.

There’s no shortage of solutions in the works, like this one, by well-funded startups, Big Tech, telecom firms and health systems. Many include use of video chat and/or text messaging for real-time interactions.

With elderly patients and their clinicians in mind, here’s a tongue-in-cheek guide to texting abbreviations that first aired on “Car Talk.”

My mom’s definitely OMG!

Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov pioneered data abstraction in the early days of AI. In this interview, she warns the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design. She also talks about ongoing challenges for women in STEM.

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