Many FDA-approved AI medical devices are not trained on real patient data
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) has practically limitless applications in health care, ranging from auto-drafting patient messages in MyChart to optimizing organ transplantation and improving tumor removal accuracy. Despite their potential benefit to doctors and patients alike, these tools have been met with skepticism because of patient privacy concerns, the possibility of bias, […]
The Big Fringe Telescope
Abstract:The Big Fringe Telescope (BFT) is a facility concept under development for a next-generation, kilometer-scale optical interferometer. Observations over the past two decades from routinely operational facilities such as CHARA and VLTI have produced groundbreaking scientific results, reflecting the mature state of the techniques in optical interferometry. However, routine imaging of bright main sequence stars […]
Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring an iOS Founding Engineer
About Roame Our mission is to make travel perfect. We empower everyone to search for flights using their credit card points and miles, which that are at least ($70 billion+ issued annually). By constantly monitoring available flight stock, we delight millions of users by finding them their dream flights and have saved members tens of […]
Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems
Posted 2024-08-2620 minute reading time With thanks to Shachaf Ben-Kiki for discussions, corrections, and feedback. Suppose one has (N) servers across which to store a file. One extreme is to give each of the (N) servers a full copy of the file. Any server can supply a full copy of the file, so even if […]
Intel Layoffs: Is Future U.S. Chip Independence in Trouble
4 min read Matthew S. Smith is a Contributing Editor for IEEE Spectrum and the former Lead Reviews Editor at Digital Trends. On 1 August 2024, Intel announced financial results for the second quarter of 2024. They weren’t pretty; the company’s stock dropped more than 25 percent as it announced an aggressive plan to cut […]
The Arrest of Pavel Durov Is a Reminder That Telegram Is Not Encrypted
French police arrested Pavel Durov, the outspoken and sperm-obsessed co-founder of Telegram, over the weekend on charges related to the spread of illicit material on the platform. As news spread of Durov’s arrest, outlets and pundits repeated a description of Telegram that isn’t true: they called it an encrypted messaging app. Reuters called Telegram an […]
IOGraphica
We’ve added colours, fixed the multi-monitor issue and made other stuff. We’ve created an awesome new interface. And that’s not all. Now we save the output image, with a 1 by 1 proportion. The original program that gained popularity known as MousePath. Looking for the source code? Here it is! Made with Java. We guarantee that IOGraph is safe. Softpedia can confirm it!
ProhostAI (YC S24) Is Hiring an iOS Engineer (SF)
Company DescriptionProhostAI (YC S24) building an AI-powered operating system for hosts on Airbnb and other vacation rental platforms. Our founding team consists of data scientists and engineers from Airbnb, Dropbox and Harvard. We have raised $1.5M and are backed by Y Combinator and Pear VC. Our founding team consists of technologists who are also Airbnb […]
Eating the Birds of America: Audubon’s Culinary Reviews of America’s Birds
On June 26, 1826, John James Audubon sat aboard the cotton schooner Delos off of Florida’s Gulf coast, en route from New Orleans to Liverpool, where he was hoping to find a publisher for his extensive portfolio of paintings of American birds.[1] On this particular day, the winds were still, leaving Audubon’s boat to rock […]
Cops are using AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A body camera captured every word and bark uttered as police Sgt. Matt Gilmore and his K-9 dog, Gunner, searched for a group of suspects for nearly an hour. Normally, the Oklahoma City police sergeant would grab his laptop and spend another 30 to 45 minutes writing up a report about […]