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Business Ideas/Biotech & health tech/Canada · USA
A model shipped into rural Cote d'Ivoire called half the healthy samples infected. Four hours of local labelling fixed it, and that fix is something you can sell.
Business Ideas/Mixed reality/Canada
On one Meta Quest 3, passthrough users reached 0.43 cm too far and virtual reality users reached 0.31 cm short. Training studios score trainees on reach, so part of that score is the headset mode.
Research Radar/Mixed reality/Canada
On the same Meta Quest 3, virtual reality users reached 0.31 cm short while camera passthrough users reached 0.43 cm too far. The virtual reality shift also lasted after the headset came off.
From Africa/Biotech & health tech/Côte d'Ivoire · USA · Canada
A team in Cote d'Ivoire relabelled a day of microscope images, retrained the model overnight, and tested it the next morning. Its catch rate rose from 75.5 to 98.1 percent.
Research Radar/Cloud computing/China · Canada
One default setting in the software that serves chatbots does not lower peak power, but it cuts how fast that power swings by up to 42.6 percent. A grid would need about a fifth less emergency reserve.