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Olena Yakobchuk / Shutterstock There are about 50 million people in the world living with dementia. It’s the umbrella term given to the symptoms caused by various diseases — most commonly Alzheimer’s. A new neck scan could help determine those most at risk, according to a new study. The test measures pulse intensity, which is […]
Adobe today announced a slew of updates and integrations across Adobe Document Cloud, its suite of cloud-based apps for converting and processing PDFs. The company’s free document scanning app for Android and iOS, Adobe Scan, is getting some improvements thanks to machine learning. Adobe Sign, its electronic signature service, is now deeply i…Read More
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence “E-Commerce Briefing” subscribers hours before appearing on Business Insider. To be the first to know, please click here. Walmart has officially decided to end its “Scan & Go” program, Business Insider reports. The program was Walmart’s take on cashierless checkout; it allowed customers to scan their items with […]
Intel Skylake die shot. (credit: Intel) Since the news of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks earlier this year, Intel has been working to reassure the computer industry that it takes security issues very seriously and that, in spite of the Meltdown issue, the Intel platform is a sound choice for the security conscious. To that […]
GOH CHAI HIN/AFP/GettyImages Sixteen areas in China are using facial-recognition technology that can reportedly scan the country’s population in one second, and the world’s population in two seconds. Over the last two years the system has been used to arrest 2,000 people. Facial-recognition technology is soaring in China where it is being used to help […]
The yellow spots in this image are sites of retinal degeneration. (credit: NIH) The idea behind using a neural network for image recognition is that you don’t have to tell it what to look for in an image. You don’t even need to care about what it looks for. With enough training, the neural network […]
Facebook is locking users out of their accounts until they download antivirus software that sometimes doesn’t even work on their computers. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a8f634ae7ab4d3c1489b1e8/master/pass/FacebookAntiVirus.jpg
AFP/Getty Images Railway police have begun using facial-recognition eyewear to catch criminals. In tests the glasses identified faces within 100 milliseconds. Seven people have been arrested for a range of previous crimes, and another 26 were banned from travel. China has been ramping up its use of facial-recognition technology as it moves toward a nationwide […]
Enlarge / Sequence on a stick. (credit: Oxford Nanopore) A few years back, a company called Oxford Nanopore announced it was developing a radically different way of sequencing DNA. Its approach involved taking single strands of the double helix and stuffing them through a protein pore. With a small bit of current flowing across the […]
Looks like this is the weekend of Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ leaks. We already know what the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ look like, their specs, and other details, before they’re officially unveiled on February 25 at Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. Thanks to SamCentral, however, we’re also learning about possible included […]
