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Illumina Acquires GRAIL For $8 Billion

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Illumina said the buy will help it add a multi-disciplinary team and capabilities for next generation sequencing (NGS), population scale clinical studies, and machine learning. GRAIL is developing a multi-cancer screening test. GRAIL was spun out of Illumina in 2016 as a standalone company. billion in cash and $4.5

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The Future of Human-Robot Interaction

Xconomy

I moderated the panel, which consisted of experts in the complementary fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. The presence of the body makes us project a personality and to think of a robot as something of a peer – even more so than apps on a screen or voices from a smartphone.

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Moving Analytics | Sitting Kills, Moving Heals

Tech Zulu Event

What we are trying to do here is we are using our expertise in machine learning and sensing capabilities to build a model about you that is tuned to you. You recently conducted a pilot study. Can you share with us how the learnings of this pilot study impacted your strategy? This was run out of USC?

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