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Middle mile meets final mile as Warp joins Urban Freight Lab

Warp joins Urban Freight Lab

Middle-mile technology company Warp is joining the University of Washington’s Urban Freight Lab (UFL), the company announced Wednesday.

Warp is the first company focused on the middle mile joining UFL, which is a public-private partnership housed at the UW’s Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center. Warp co-founder and CEO Daniel Sokolovsky is familiar with the work of UFL, having served as CEO of AxleHire during a Seattle last-mile delivery pilot conducted by UFL in 2021.

“UFL is doing...

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New Smartphone-based System To Monitor Body Vitals

  • Researchers have developed a method that uses the camera on a persons smartphone or computer to capture their pulse and breathing rate from a real-time video of their face.
  • The system preserves privacy by operating on the device rather than in the cloud, while machine learning (ML) records subtle changes in light reflecting off a person’s face.
  • The researchers trained the system on a dataset of facial videos, and individual pulse and respiration data from standard field instruments.
  • The system...

https://mfame.guru/new-smartphone-based-system-to-monitor-body-vitals/