Microsoft has launched AI for Humanitarian Action, a $40 million, five-year program meant to aid in various humanitarian efforts across the world with the help of artificial intelligence.
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Google, long known for their crisis relief efforts, has this time taken the initiative to assist the influx of displaced refugees from the Middle East by pledging dollar-for-dollar donation matching.
Microsoft Research, in cooperation with the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel, is working on a system to potentially divine the future from newspaper headlines and other sources.
Early this week, a Boeing 747 took off from Portland, Oregon, loaded with more than 190,000 pounds (86,000 kilos) of lifesaving humanitarian aid, bound for Kabul, Afghanistan. Reportedly the first non-military flight to receive approval...
