September 18, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A now-ended adoption program created the perception that Chinese girls weren’t valued. One adoptee, once hidden in a grocery bag, found there was more to her own story. In “Ricki’s Promise,” a 2014 documentary by Changfu … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Wired) – OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI has been sending … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Axios) – Instagram on Tuesday announced major changes to teen accounts that give parents more control over their teen’s messaging and content settings. Why it matters: Worldwide, over 100 million accounts will likely be impacted. The big picture: The company … Read More
September 18, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – US policymakers have an ‘everything everywhere all at once’ approach to regulating artificial intelligence, with bills that are as varied as the definitions of AI itself. More than 120 bills related to regulating artificial intelligence are … Read More
September 17, 2024
(NBC News) – Enterovirus D68 is linked to rare cases of the polio-like illness acute myelitis, or AFM. So far this year, the CDC has confirmed 13 cases of AFM. A respiratory virus that sometimes paralyzes children is spreading across … Read More
September 17, 2024
(NBC News) – The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and their families with respect. A Swedish … Read More
September 17, 2024
(Tech Crunch) – Neuralink, the Elon Musk-owned brain-computer interface company, on Tuesday received “breakthrough device” clearance from the FDA. But this does not mean the outfit has developed a cure for blindness, no matter what Musk might say. The breakthrough … Read More
September 17, 2024
(Nature) – Evidence shows that blockbuster weight-loss medications can reduce obesity even in children aged 6–11, but their long-term effects on growing bodies are unknown. Millions of adults around the world take potent drugs such as Wegovy to shed pounds. … Read More
September 17, 2024
(NPR) – PURPOSE 2, the name for the latest trial sponsored by Gilead Science, the California-based maker of lenacapavir, found the drug to be 96% effective in preventing HIV infections in the newly released results of a clinical trial of … Read More
September 17, 2024
(The Times) – In the state’s low-regulation fertility clinics the perfect child may soon be available — for a price. Megan Agnew meets the doctors, mums and surrogates Welcome to California, fertility capital of the world. Thanks to many years … Read More
September 17, 2024
(Wired) – We now know why some blood is missing a key antigen—leading to the creation of a new blood-grouping system. Experts believe even more discoveries are on the way. In the end, it took her and her colleagues 19 … Read More
September 16, 2024
(New York Times) – Kendric Cromer, 12, is among the first patients to be treated with gene therapy just approved by the F.D.A. that many other patients face obstacles to receiving. Last December, the Food and Drug Administration gave approval … Read More
September 16, 2024
(ABC News) – Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil got the unique chance to see how her brain changed while she was pregnant and share what she learned in a new study that offers the first detailed map of a woman’s brain throughout … Read More
September 16, 2024
(Wired) – Neuralink rival Synchron is connecting its brain–computer interface with consumer technologies to allow people with paralysis more functionality. Mark, a 64-year-old with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, uses Amazon Alexa all the time using his voice. But now, … Read More
September 16, 2024
(The Guardian) – As a legal academic, I have been investigating the global trade in organs since 2014. Over the past 10 years, I have spoken to 43 people from Sudan, South Sudan and Eritrea who sold a kidney out … Read More
September 13, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – It could assist the company in its efforts to embed AI in more and more of its products. As long as chatbots have been around, they have made things up. Such “hallucinations” are an inherent part … Read More
September 13, 2024
(CBS News) – Apple AirPods Pro 2 can soon be used as hearing aids, after they received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance, in what experts call a game changer for the hearing aid market. The FDA on Thursday authorized a piece … Read More
September 13, 2024
(Vox) – From prebiotic sodas to collagen waters, beverages are trying to do the most. Consumers are drinking it up. Consumer demand for drinks that offer added health benefits — known as functional beverages — is booming, and manufacturers are … Read More
September 13, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans were unknowingly signed up for government-subsidized health insurance, often lured by social-media ads falsely promising cash for daily expenses, according to insurance agents, court documents and federal officials. Insurance agents … Read More
September 12, 2024
(Wired) – The Vision Pro uses 3D avatars on calls and for streaming. These researchers used eye tracking to work out the passwords and PINs people typed with their avatars. You can tell a lot about someone from their eyes. … Read More
September 12, 2024
(CBS News) – Our warming planet is putting those who are pregnant at higher risk — and the impacts go far beyond heat-related illnesses. Research shows that along with the dangers presented to the general population, extreme heat puts pregnant people — … Read More
September 12, 2024
(The Hill) – Murthy noted in the advisory that parents now grapple with the “complexity of managing social media … concerns about the youth mental health crisis, and an epidemic of loneliness that disproportionately affects young people.” Psychologists and parenting … Read More
September 12, 2024
(NBC News) – Health officials theorize it could be a “one-off” case, in which the infection wasn’t passed along to anyone else. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it has yet to identify “a clear source” of … Read More
September 12, 2024
(New York Times) – New research suggests that dosage plays a role in a rare side effect of A.D.H.D. stimulants. Psychosis and mania are each known side effects of stimulant medications, and the Food and Drug Administration has added warnings … Read More
September 12, 2024
(The Atlantic) – In the two-plus years since Roe was overturned, a handful of studies have cataloged the moral distress of doctors across the country. In one, 96 percent of providers who care for pregnant women in states with restrictive … Read More
