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The Scary Blind Spots in Healthcare AI
Artificial intelligence is everywhere. And increasingly, it’s becoming a critical part of healthcare. Doctors use it to try to suss out symptoms of deadly infections like sepsis; companies like Google are developing apps to help you identify ailments just by uploading some pics.  But AI is only as good... Read more
NIS America is making fan translations official with Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. NIS America announced today localizations for four games in Nihon Falcom’s The Legend of Heroes series, and it is turning to a dedicated group of fans to officially bring a couple of... Read more
Google pushes its Chrome cookie ban back to 2023
Google is delaying its long-promised move to block third-party cookies from its Chrome browser by another year, citing the need to “move at a responsible pace” and “avoid jeopardizing the business models of many web publishers which support freely available content.” Google’s business model likely factored into the decision,... Read more
Steam Summer Sale: 10 discounted PC games to buy now
EA Amazon Prime Day is out, Steam’s annual Summer Sale is very much in. There are tons of PC games with huge discounts on the Steam store at the moment, such that the store has a choose-your-own-adventure style menu to help you browse through them all. It’s worth taking... Read more
The Biggest Windows 11 News Is an App Store Overhaul
Meet Microsoft, the champion of competitive marketplaces. Not a sentence you’d ever expect to read 20 years ago. But Microsoft’s Windows 11 event today made it clear that the company wants to position itself as the anti-Apple, at least when it comes to distributing software. The upcoming version of... Read more
IBM working on AI tools to spot, cut bias in online ad targeting
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. (Reuters) — IBM is developing tools that would ensure online advertising algorithms do not unfairly show ads to only specific groups such as mostly men or wealthy people, aiming to address discrimination... Read more
Google now warns people about unreliable or quickly changing search results
Google is testing a new feature to notify people when they search for a topic that may have unreliable results. The move is a notable step by the world’s most popular search engine to give people more context about breaking information that’s popular online — like suspected UFO sightings... Read more
“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted
Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending customers unplug My Disk Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world. The mass incidents of disk wiping came... Read more
This is the road barrier deep dive you never knew you needed
I love hidden technology. Now, I don’t mean weird Illuminati perpetual motion machines; instead, I mean the kind of technology we see every day but aren’t aware of. A really great example of this is road barriers. Road barriers definitely aren’t sexy, but they’re important. They save a ton... Read more
Microsoft Windows 11: The Most Important New Features
Today, Microsoft officially unveiled Windows 11, the next major version of its operating system (after a leak unofficially unveiled it last week). It’s going to bring a new, revamped Start Menu, better multi-monitor and touchscreen support, tighter integration with Xbox Game Pass, and a new push for the Windows... Read more