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Is THIS the key to improving eyewitness identification? Placing people who do NOT look the same in police line-ups can improve accuracy by 10%, surprising study reveals US and UK researchers recruited 19,732 volunteers to play the role of eyewitness Each participant was shown a video of a faked crime, followed by a photo line-up The … Read more
Government scientists mounted a furious attack on critics of lateral flow tests today, accusing them of being ‘prejudiced’ and insisting the 15-checks were reliable. Dr Susan Hopkins, the chief medical adviser for NHS Test and Trace, and Sage’s Professor Calum Semple were among 14 senior figures who lashed out at academics who have cast doubt on the … Read more
AI capable of determining a person’s political affiliation based on their photo with finds liberals face the camera while conservatives have a look of disgust Stanford experts built an AI capable of guessing political affiliation by a photo It was trained with over one million images from dating sites and Facebook The AI focused on … Read more
A BBC documentary about Dominic Cummings broke accuracy rules by implying that Boris Johnson’s former chief aide was prejudiced against Muslims, the broadcaster’s complaints unit has found. Taking Control: The Dominic Cummings Story, presented by Emily Maitlis, risked misleading viewers by taking quotes from a paper by his think-tank about migration out of context, the unit … Read more
Plans to post millions of rapid testing kits to homes are BLOCKED by regulator amid fears they are not accurate enough when people test themselves Tests only pick up 49 per cent of infections when used by ordinary people Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency blocked mass rollout Boris Johnson has said lateral flow tests … Read more
Delicately balanced boulders have been used to create a ‘rock clock’ that can improve the accuracy of earthquake severity predictions by up 50 per cent. Imperial College London researchers created a new severe earthquake forecasting model using information from formations of precariously balanced rocks (PBRs). PBRs, rock formations where a ‘slender boulder’ is delicately perched … Read more
Robot can identify birds with around 90 per cent accuracy – so amateur twitchers never get in a flap AI has been found to identify smaller birds with up to 90 per cent accuracy Researchers trained the AI using pictures of wild great tits and sociable weavers, and captive zebra finches The technology works in … Read more
Antibody tests are ones which look for signs of past infection in someone’s blood. Antibodies are substances produced by the immune system which store memories of how to fight off a specific virus. They can only be created if the body is exposed to the virus by getting infected for real, or through a vaccine … Read more
US healthcare officials are working tirelessly to deliver coronavirus test results in a timely manner, but the process includes getting tested, having the sample processed and then delivering the results. Now, a scientist has developed new technology that can produce a diagnosis in just a matter of seconds and with 98 percent accuracy. Barath Narayanan, … Read more
IPSO upholds Labour report authors’ accuracy complaint against MoS By Mail on Sunday Published: 00:15 GMT, 22 December 2019 | Updated: 08:10 GMT, 22 December 2019 Following an article published on June 23, 2019 in The Mail on Sunday, headlined ‘Corbyn “war on homeowners” ’, Anna Powell-Smith complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that … Read more