Artificial intelligence is now being used not just to automate business workflows — but to shape public opinion. A recent report from The Verge highlights how AI-generated content is being used in campaigns defending gas appliances, raising concerns about astroturfing — the practice of masking coordinated messaging as grassroots public sentiment. As AI tools become […]

Electric vehicles (EVs) are widely promoted as a cleaner alternative to gasoline-powered cars. But a new study highlighted by The Verge makes an important clarification: EVs are not pollution-free. While EVs eliminate tailpipe emissions, they still generate air pollution through tire wear, brake dust, and electricity generation. Even so, the study concludes that EVs produce […]

Health technology has seen tremendous growth in recent years, and new discoveries are being made all the time. Here are some of the most exciting new tech discoveries in the health domain: These are just a few of the many exciting new tech discoveries in the health domain. These advances have the potential to greatly […]

Google on September 28, 2018 rolled out software update for Smartwatches that use the Wear OS software. This will be in fairly direct response to Apple’s launch of the Smartwatch series 4, and while the new update to wear OS is certainly an improvement, it’s definitely lagging behind Apple’s watch OS.

You were sick but you didn’t exactly know what it was. It was in the middle of the night and you couldn’t reach your doctor. What about if you could check your symptoms and find possible causes for free in just three minutes? That’s exactly what this health tech startup has done.

Physicians and government regulators agree that pulse oximeters measure oxygen levels less accurately in patients with darker skin and need to be fixed. Pulse oximeters can have some degree of bias based on a person’s skin tone. This is because the sensors in a pulse oximeter use light to measure the oxygen levels in a […]