Enlarge / Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical adviser, speaks alongside COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha during a briefing on COVID-19 at the White House on November 22, 2022, in Washington, DC. Fauci spoke on the updated COVID-19 booster shots and encouraged individuals to get their vaccines. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) (credit:…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Online discussion platform Packback has introduced Deep Dives, an AI-enabled writing coach designed to help students improve their writing.Read More
Reading during breaks from school brings me tremendous joy. I never seem to have enough time during the school week to read as much as I would like, so getting a chance to recharge my reading life during school breaks is often just what the reading doctor ordered. The last thing we did in my…
Aslı Yılmaz / Unsplash Computers are getting pretty good at a growing roster of arcade and board games, including chess, Go, Pong, and Pac-Man. Machines might even change how video games get developed in the not-so-distant future. Now, after building an AI bot that outbluffs humans at poker, scientists at Meta AI have created a…
Percuss your muscles. Stan Horaczek We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Muscles are finicky things. Move too much and too enthusiastically and you’ll put a lot of strain on them that will leave you sore for days to come. Move too little…
Quadrupedal robots are all the rage right now. YouTube Another week, another uncanny advancement for the burgeoning four-legged robot “dog” industry: MIT Technology Review just previewed a quadrupedal creation similar to Boston Dynamics’ Spot capable of taking strolls over rocky terrain, climbing up stairs, and even hopping over small gaps while relying only an onboard…
Almond is aiming to modernize Obstetrics Gynecological (Ob-Gyn) care for birthing people who want something more “modern,” full-service, and comprehensive than the standard provider offers. Fresh out of Y Combinator, the company just announced a $7 million seed round. “The patient experience today is slow, it’s incomplete, and ultimately it’s delivering not great outcomes,” said…
You blinked and it is, inexplicably, almost Black Friday again. Should you buy a bunch of stuff just because it’s discounted? Probably not! Can you use it as an opportunity to save some money on stuff you already wanted anyway? Absolutely. We don’t aim to be exhaustive with our Black Friday tech roundup. Instead, we…
When I first made an account on Mastodon, Twitter’s supposed successor, I had a lot of questions. Does it scratch the Twitter itch? What server do I join? How does the whole server thing work? After spending some time on Mastodon and learning more about decentralized platforms in general, I’ve got the hang of it….
iCloud for Windows app users are reporting some fairly bizarre glitches with photo and video content when accessing the platform on a PC. Numerous complaints on the MacRumours forum detail users’ purported experiences of photos and even videos of strangers appearing in their library on the iCloud app for Windows. Also, videos apparently shot with…