Since it was announced in April, the text-to-image AI tool DALL-E 2 has been wowing artists, researchers, and media types its high-quality images. Now, four months later, developer OpenAI is giving DALL-E 2 a new trick: the ability to extend the original images
In a medical landscape that’s full of precision drugs and detailed diagnoses, neurology is something of an outlier. Given how difficult it is to diagnose disorders of the nervous system, neurology has proven a particularly tricky branch of medicine. (Much of the public’s skepticism is understandable: Research suggests Parkinson’s, for example, has a
People can debate all they want about the Metaverse, whether it’s one virtual world or multiple worlds, whether it intrinsically has value, or is destined to destroy us. They can have all the opinions they want about cryptocurrency as well, whether it’s a terrible investment or an incredible opportunity, it’s the future, or itȁ
One of the earliest figures in healthcare technology is making a comeback.
In 1997, Jonathan Bush founded a women’s health and natal care clinic called Athena Women’s Health, but pivoted less than two years later to build practice management and physician billing tools as Athenahealth. Over the ensuing 20 years, Athenahealth became a major provider of electronic medical records and medical billing technology with more than 100,000 providers using the company’s tool
The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Kochava Inc. on Aug. 29, 2022, accusing the data broker of selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices. Consumers are often unaware that their location data is being sold and that their past movements can
Uber is introducing a new slate of safety features to its app in an effort to ensure user safety.
Riders can now contact a safety agent with ADT Security Services while using the Uber app, via call or text, to monitor the trip and reach out to 911 on the users’ behalf with details like license plate number, GPS location, and the car’s make and model. The new feature, which is intended fo
Twitter has announced that as of today, all users now have access to Twitter Circle. The feature first debuted to a limited number of users in May, but now anyone with an account can create a Circle.
Twitter Circles are essentially a group of a user’s most trusted followers. The user gets to decide which followers get let into their Circle. When a user marks a tweet for their Circle, none of the user’s other followers outside the circle can see the tweet, and any replies
You want to take a DNA test to get a genomic health report, but there’s a problem: you don’t feel comfortable just handing over all your health and genomic data to that big biotech company. As an analogy, you might think of your data like gold, and the company like a jeweler. The jeweler will make you a gold necklace—produce your genomic health report—but you might not notice if the jeweler also takes a bit of gold themselves, or
For years, Comcast and other cable companies have leaned on a simple strategy to offset the effects of cord-cutting: Charge a steep price on home internet service, and enjoy soaring profits thanks to little or no competition.
That strategy may now be in jeopardy. Comcast’s internet subscriber growth was essentially flat last quarter, while Charter
Even if I had no concept of how calendars work, I would know it’s back-to-school season right now. That’s because friends, family, and people I haven’t heard from in ages have all been coming out of the woodwork to ask about laptops.
I don’t mind. As a reasonably technical person with almost zero noteworthy skills or abilities outside the world of technology, it’s the very least I could do to give back.
Now, the interesting thing about people a