Tag: health
AI can battle coronavirus, but privacy shouldn’t be a casualty
Philip N. Howard Contributor Philip N. Howard is the director of the Oxford Internet Institute and author of the forthcoming “Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives.” Lisa-Maria Neudert Contributor Lisa-Maria Neudert is a researcher with the Computational Propaganda Project…
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Cathay Innovation’s first investment in Germany is healthcare startup Medwing
Medwing, a German startup with an ambition to tackle Europe’s shortage of healthcare workers, said on Tuesday that it has secured €28 million ($30 million) in a Series B financing round. Global venture capital firm Cathay Innovation led the round, marking its first investment in a German company. Other participating…
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Israel restricts COVID-19 phone tracking to ‘special cases’
Israel’s original plan to track the phones of COVID-19 sufferers won’t get very far. The country’s cabinet has restricted the use of the Shin Bet security agency’s phone surveillance to “specific and special cases” where officials can’t determine an… Source
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Samsung gets approval for Galaxy Watch Active 2’s ECG, but only in Korea
The ECG sensor on the Galaxy Watch Active 2 has gone unused for the better part of a year, but it’s finally close to fulfilling its original purpose… in one country, anyway. Samsung has received approval to use the ECG feature for measuring heart r… Source
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R&D Roundup: ‘Twisted light’ lasers, prosthetic vision advances and robot-trained dogs
I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances, along with notes on why they may prove important in the world of tech and startups. In this edition: a new type of laser emitter that uses…
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Amazon accused of fighting efforts to track COVID-19 in Wisconsin facilities
Amazon may be improving safety measures in warehouses to protect against COVID-19, but it’s also accused of being less than forthcoming with vital data. The health officer for Kenosha County in Wisconsin, Jen Freiheit, told the Milwaukee Journal Sent… Source
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