Adobe Scan uses AI to find documents in your photo gallery

Adobe introduced a new feature for Scan, the iOS and Android app that converts scanned documents into editable PDFs using your phone’s camera. Thanks to the latest update, Scan can look through your phone’s pictures and find receipts, documents, forms and more thanks to AI. It will then turn them into editable and searchable PDFs […]

Man Utd news: Jose Mourinho sweats on Paul Pogba hamstring scan ahead of Everton clash

Jose Mourinho thinks his £89m signing could miss a few weeks of action after limping off against Basel in the Champions League last night. And the France star will undergo a scan on his injury. Manchester United face Everton on Sunday with Pogba almost certainly out, but Mourinho will hope he won’t have to be […]

Google promised not to scan Gmail for targeted ads—but for how long?

Enlarge (credit: Cairo) On July 23, Google promised with great fanfare that it would stop scanning consumers’ Gmail messages to serve targeted, contextually aware ads. The announcement—which put Gmail in line with competing services and Google’s paid e-mail for government, business, and education sectors—was published widely, from tech blogs to the mainstream media. “Free consumer […]

Stroke test: Simple scan 'can predict if someone will suffer potentially fatal stroke'

The non-invasive technique is able to indicate whether plaques in carotid arteries, which supply the brain with blood, are rich in cholesterol and likely to become clogged. The rupture of fatty plaques can block arteries and cause debilitating and life-threatening strokes as the brain is starved of oxygen. At present, risk is measured by the […]

High-powered microscope can scan cells without destroying them

Confocal microscopes are pretty wild. The instruments can capture cell division in realtime, but the downside is the lasers in existing ones tend to fry the cells they’re studying. Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology may have found a way around that, though. Phys.org explains that professors Du Shenwang and Michael […]

Walmart will scan for unhappy shoppers using facial recognition (cue the apocalypse)

Walmart is about to use artificial intelligence in the worst way possible. According to a patent filing, the largest brick-and-mortar retailer in the world (likely looking for ways to compete with Amazon) is developing a technology that can identify whether customers are unhappy or frustrated. It will likely use existing security and checkout cameras to […]