AI is the prescription for overworked medical professionals
The problem with healthcare is simple: there’s not enough of it. In a perfect world we’d all have our own personal physicians like the Queen. But in reality, the average doctor sees thousands of patients a year. Solving this problem could take decades. Unless, of course, someone were to “hack” the system itself using artificial…
Apple strolls Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12 X system on...
Enlarge / The 2018, 12.9-inch iPad Pro. Samuel Axon BROOKLYN—Apple's new iPad Pro sports several new features of note, including the most dramatic aesthetic redesign in years, Face ID, new Pencil features, and the very welcome move to USB-C. But the star of the show is the new A12X system on a chip (SoC). Apple…
2018 iPad Pro evaluation: “What’s a computer system?”
The 2018, 12.9-inch iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard Folio. Samuel Axon The 2018, 12.9-inch iPad Pro. Samuel Axon The iPad Pro is just one fourth of an inch thick. Samuel Axon The rear camera on the iPad Pro, with a vertically aligned flash. Samuel Axon The Smart Keyboard Folio turns it into a laptop—sort…
Microsoft’s unique Costco Surface area Go is now readily available to...
Surface Go is Microsoft's cheapest Surface 2-in-1 available: $399 gets you a Surface Go with 4GB RAM and 64GB of eMMC storage. But the next step up in specs was a lot more expensive: it takes an extra $150 to double the RAM to 8GB and replace the 64GB eMMC with a 128GB SSD, a…
Samsung’s collapsible phone is genuine, and it introduces next year
Samsung's flexible phone. It starts in phone mode... And opens into a tablet mode. There are two displays on Samsung's phone. One static phone-style display on the outside, and athe folding display on the inside. Putting the folding display on the inside of the device means putting a serious bend in the display. As you…
China’s president wishes to make the web ‘fairer’– for China
China’s stranglehold on its citizens’ internet usage is notorious, and now the officials in charge of it are gathered at China’s main internet conference in Wuzhen. Today, President Xi Jinping called for greater global cooperation in making the internet fairer in a speech that was read on his behalf at the conference, Reuters reports. “There…
AMD describes its future: 7nm GPUs with PCIe 4, Zen 2,...
Enlarge / AMD Radeon Instinct MI60. AMD today charted out its plans for the next few years of product development, with an array of new CPUs and GPUs in the development pipeline. On the GPU front are two new datacenter-oriented GPUs: the Radeon Instinct MI60 and MI50. Based on the Vega architecture and built on…
The EU’s border control ‘lie detector’ AI is hogwash
Calling the EU’s new border control AI a “lie detector” is like calling Brexit a minor disagreement among friends. The low-down is that the EU is testing a pilot program for international airports featuring a machine learning-based “lie detector.” CNN broke the story last week in its article “Passengers to face AI lie detector tests…
Facebook’s AI understands how most likely you are to leave throughout...
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) recently conducted a big data study to determine whether social media ties play a role in people’s decision whether to evacuate affected areas during a hurricane. And, according to the research, those with the most “social capital” were more likely to heed official warnings and flee. Who knew social media could incite…
Spanish researchers: EnChroma glasses will not repair your color loss of...
Enlarge / EnChroma glasses have always had both skeptics and true believers. Who's right? It's complicated. The much-touted EnChroma glasses don't help colorblind users see new colors; they merely let the colorblind see the same colors in a different way, according to a new study published in Optics Express by scientists at Spain's University of Granada.…
