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Google Brain’s AI achieves state-of-the-art text summarization performance
Posted in Business, Software on 28th Dec, 2019
by Alex Muller
state-of-the-art results in 12 summarization tasks spanning news, science, stories, instructions, emails, patents, and legislative bills, and that it shows “surprising” performance on low-resource summarization, surpassing previous top results on six data sets with only 1,000 examples.
New oral migraine prevention drug approved by FDA
Posted in Medicine on 24th Dec, 2019
by Alex Muller
Continuing the wave of cutting-edge new migraine drugs reaching the American market, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now approved the first oral calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) antagonist for acute migraine treatment.
Drug targeting common cancer cause enters phase 2 clinical trials
Posted in Medicine on 24th Dec, 2019
by Alex Muller
Known as AMG 510, the drug targets a gene mutation that’s one of the most common causes of cancer.
IBM's lithium battery uses seawater materials instead of heavy metals
Posted in Business, Featured, Hardware on 20th Dec, 2019
by Alex Muller
IBM has unveiled a new battery that relies on materials from seawater.
Microdosing LSD for Alzheimer’s proves safe in early human trial
Posted in Medicine on 20th Dec, 2019
by Alex Muller
New results have been published from one of the first placebo-controlled clinical trials investigating the effects of microdosing LSD. This Phase 1 trial is the first step in testing whether these kinds of psychedelic microdose methods could be useful as a therapeutic approach for treating Alzheimer’s disease