Some of the ethical dilemmas that programmers of self-driving cars face.

When faced with driving dilemmas, people show a high willingness to sacrifice themselves for others, make decisions based on the victim’s age and swerve onto sidewalks to minimize the number of lives lost, reveals new research published in open-access journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. This is at odds with ethical guidelines in these circumstances, which often dictate that no life should be valued over another. This research hopes to initiate discussions about the way self-driving vehicles should be programmed to deal with situations that endanger human life.

Read Article:  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180503142637.htm

A potential amazing new medical diagnostic tool powered by the user’s touch.

A new medical-diagnostic device made out of paper detects biomarkers and identifies diseases by performing electrochemical analyses — powered only by the user’s touch — and reads out the color-coded test results, making it easy for non-experts to understand

Read Article:  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170822153617.htm

We see hundreds or even thousands of images a day, and almost all of them have been digitally manipulated in some way. Some have gotten basic color corrections or simple Instagram filter effects, while others have received full on Photoshop jobs to completely transform the subject. It turns out humans aren’t very good at recognizing when an image has been manipulated, even if the change is fairly substantial. Hany Farid is a professor of computer science at Dartmouth College who specializes in photo forensics, and while he can’t share all of his fancy software tools for detecting editing trickery, he has shared a few tips for authenticating images on your own.

Read Article:  http://www.popsci.com/use-photo-forensics-to-spot-faked-images

Watch NASA’s video about flight research, it is fascinating!

Watch Video:  https://youtu.be/0mIfahidcbw