A quick and pain-free scan of the human eyeball could one day help doctors identify “fast agers,” who are at greater risk of early mortality. A machine learning model has now been taught to predict a person’s years of life simply by looking at their retina, which is the tissue Read more…
The Red Cross has disclosed that it was the victim of a cyber attack and has asked the hackers who broke into the IT network of one of its contractors not to leak the personal information of more than 515,000 of “highly vulnerable people.” The data was stolen from a Read more…
Antimicrobial resistance poses a significant threat to humanity, health leaders have warned, as a study reveals it has become a leading cause of death worldwide and is killing about 3,500 people every day. More than 1.2 million — and potentially millions more — died in 2019 as a direct result Read more…
Google is forming a group dedicated to the blockchain and related technologies under a newly appointed executive who has spent more than a decade on the company’s core business of search advertising. Shivakumar Venkataraman, an engineering vice president for Alphabet’s Google, is now running a unit focused on “blockchain and Read more…
A cyberattack targeting a contractor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross has spilled confidential data on more than 515,000 “highly vulnerable” people, many of whom have been separated from their families due to conflict, migration and disaster. The Red Cross did not name the contractor, based in Read more…
Russia must ban cryptocurrencies, the country’s central bank said in a report released Thursday. The report, “Cryptocurrencies: trends, risks, measures,” was presented during an online press conference with Elizaveta Danilova, the director of the Bank of Russia’s Financial Stability Department. The report says cryptocurrencies are volatile and widely used in Read more…
Meta may be the loudest company building AR and VR hardware. Microsoft has HoloLens. Apple is working on something, too. But don’t count out Google. The search giant has recently begun ramping up work on an AR headset, internally codenamed Project Iris, that it hopes to ship in 2024, according Read more…