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…
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…
NGOs looking to provide emergency aid to Afghanistan are turning to cryptocurrency. When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August of last year, Fereshteh Forough feared that the group would close her school in Herat, the country’s third-largest city. Code to Inspire, an NGO Forough founded, was teaching computer programming Read more…
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