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Google DeepMind has announced its second collaboration with the NHS, as part of which it will work with Moorfields Eye Hospital in east London to build a machine learning system which will eventually be able to recognise sight-threatening conditions fr… Continue reading Google’s DeepMind AI To Use 1 Million NHS Eye Scans To Spot Diseases Earlier
Fusion’s Kashmir Hill is reporting about a five-foot-tall, white, egg-shaped robot that one can find at the company’s inspection lot near Mission Bay in San Francisco. The K5 robot is a stand-in for a human security guard, and it sports multiple high-d… Continue reading Uber Hires a Robot To Patrol Its Parking Lot and It’s Way Cheaper Than a Security Guard
Kara Swisher, reporting for Recode:Cable giant Comcast will allow popular web video streaming service Netflix onto its X1 platform. (Editor’s note: both the companies confirmed the move to the publication.) Sources said the deal to be on the cable gian… Continue reading Comcast Will Let Netflix Onto Its X1 Platform
FBI Director James Comey says that his agency isn’t recommending that the DOJ pursue charges against Hillary Clinton for setting up a private email server as Secretary of State. At a press conference on Tuesday, Comey added that while there is “evidenc… Continue reading The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct
An anonymous reader shares a report on The Register: A whole pile of “this is how your brain looks like” MRI-based science has been invalidated because someone finally got around to checking the data. The problem is simple: to get from a high-resolutio… Continue reading MRI Software Bugs Could Upend Years Of Research
Reader Orome1 writes: Security researcher Amitay Dan warns that tplinklogin.net, a domain through which TP-LINK router owners can configure their devices, is no longer owned by the company, and that this fact could be misused by malware peddlers. TP-LI… Continue reading TP-LINK Loses Control of Two Device Configuration Domains
Roger Cheng, reporting for CNET: Big changes are afoot at Verizon. The nation’s largest wireless carrier is set to unveil changes to its plans that will make them more expensive, but will also include more data, according to someone familiar with the c… Continue reading Verizon To Hike Prices On Plans But Offer More Data
All software written for the government in Bulgaria are now required to be open-source. The amendments to put such laws in motion were voted in domestic parliament and are now in effect, announced software engineer Bozhidar Bozhanov, who is also an adv… Continue reading Bulgaria Got a Law Requiring Open Source
From a TorrentFreak report: Blizzard Entertainment is suing Bossland, the maker of the popular Overwatch cheat tool “Watchover Tyrant” and several other game cheats. Among other things, the developer accuses the German company of various forms of copyr… Continue reading Blizzard Sues Overwatch ‘Cheat’ Maker For Copyright Infringement
Richard Chirgwin, reporting for The Register: Lenovo, and possibly other PC vendors, are exposed to a UEFI bug that can be exploited to disable firmware write-protection. If the claims made by Dmytro Oleksiuk at Github are correct, an attacker can “dis… Continue reading Lenovo Scrambling To Get a Fix For BIOS Vulnerability