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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A scientist who pioneered the modern food processing safety standards used around the world was awarded this year’s World Food Prize, the organization announced Wednesday, crediting his work for averting millions of cases of foodborne illness and reducing food waste.Huub Lelieveld of the Netherlands earned the award after six decades spent advancing ways to improve food safety and advocating for trade regulations that allow safe food to get around the world more easily.“I just did what I thought was right,” Lelieveld said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I want everybody to have enough…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration gave San Jose State University 10 days to resolve what the U.S. Education Department has deemed are Title IX violations involving transgender athletes, saying the school will face legal action and the possible loss of federal funding if it fails to comply. The department in January found that the university had discriminated against women by letting a transgender athlete play on the women’s volleyball team. The department issued its ultimatum in a Tuesday letter. Kimberly Richey, assistant secretary for civil rights, said the administration had provided the university with multiple ways to resolve…

The bacteria that cause deadly anthrax disease persist in the earth, a place their ancestors preferred over petri dishes and blood-filled tissues.The bacteria that cause anthrax are called Bacillus anthracis. In the soil, they hang out and can form communities around plant roots. They also interact with neighboring organisms, though they’re an admittedly less-than-ideal neighbor to the soil-dwelling amoebae they infect and kill.As a public health researcher, I am fascinated by how diseases move among people, animals and the environment. When I worked in a state health department, I was surprised to learn how the bacteria that cause anthrax cycle…

Teens in the U.S. are obtaining medication abortion pills through telehealth, and young people age 18 to 24 are ordering medication abortion at much higher rates than older adults.Those are the key findings of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal JAMA Health Forum.We examined requests for medication made to an online telemedicine service – one of the few to support people in all 50 states, without age restrictions. We compared average weekly request rates both before and after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in June 2022. Over time, we examined request rates…

The cry of “atoms, not bits!” — a phrase capturing Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with physical manufacturing over digital products — reached a fever pitch last week with word that Jeff Bezos is putting together a $100 billion fund to roll up and automate factories. But automating factories isn’t purely a hardware problem. It increasingly depends on sophisticated software and AI tools, and that shift is reshaping the companies building the infrastructure of the physical manufacturing world. Karthik Gollapudi, the CEO of Sift Stack, an El Segundo, California, company whose tools support the design and manufacturing of complex machines like…

Jaeden Briley lives on a road named for her homesteading family, a narrow dirt track packed with deep snow. After feeding the chickens, horses and cows on her family’s Montmorency County farm before dawn, she climbs into her Ford Focus and slips and slides five miles to the highway, which is a straight shot to Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools.A few months remain of her senior year at the small, rural school, and the 18-year-old knows she now has a choice of roads. She’s been accepted into the University of Findlay in Ohio, where she could study to become a veterinarian, a…

By Nancy LapidMarch 25 (Reuters) – Fake X-ray images created by artificial intelligence to resemble true results from human patients can fool not only experienced radiologists but also the AI tools themselves, according to a study that illustrates the potential for manipulation by bad actors.Seventeen radiologists from 12 hospitals in six countries reviewed 264 X-ray ‌images, half of which had been generated by the AI tools ChatGPT or RoentGen.When radiologist readers were unaware of the study’s true purpose, only 41% spontaneously identified AI-generated images, ‌according to a report published in Radiology.After being informed that the dataset contained synthetic images, the…

Micro dramas are booming — and one startup is betting AI can help make them more interactive.StoReel is a Beijing-based startup that distributes AI-made micro dramas in its mobile app. It’s also a platform that lets creators make series using AI characters and voices. StoReel makes most of its revenue in the US, but is present in a handful of markets.The company shared exclusively with Business Insider that it had raised $34 million in funding — $9 million in seed capital led by Play Ventures, and $25 million in user acquisition financing from PVX Partners. In user acquisition financing, investors do not…

Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now. While many companies are trying to build humanoids or tout demos of their robots dancing and doing flips, Lucid Bots’ drones are out in the field making traditionally unsexy and dangerous work, like cleaning windows, safer and more efficient. “The sad truth is most are still selling a lot of hype and headlines, and we sell performance on the job site that shows up in our customers, profits, and losses,” Ashur told…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rohan Gore, a 38-year-old AI engineer at Reach3 Insights, a market research firm based in Vancouver. His identity and employment have been verified by Business Insider. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I graduated with a computer science degree back in 2010, and I’ve worked in the industry since.I started as a typical software engineer working on some of the interesting and complex problems in marketing research. Now, I’m an AI engineer.I have mixed feelings about the impact of AI on the software engineering industry.I…