Technology

A large number of doctors write medicine prescriptions in haste, making it nearly impossible for their patients to understand what they scribbled. This problem has been around for decades and many tech firms have attempted to solve it with little to no success. Now Google is having a go at Read more…

Today, application security provider Promon released the results of a survey of 311 cybersecurity professionals taken at this year’s Black Hat Europe expo earlier this month. Sixty-six percent of the respondents claim to have experienced burnout this year. The survey also found that 51% reported working more than four hours Read more…

A new study from Intercom shows the stakes are high for customer support and overall customer experience (CX) this holiday season. The survey of 1,000 U.S. adults revealed 64% would leave a business if they didn’t feel valued in a support interaction — only falling behind not having their issue Read more…

Last March, brain-computing interface expert Tom Oxley sat down to dinner with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to talk about Oxley’s nascent company, Synchron. That meal in Ojai, Calif., ended with something better than dessert: Bezos told Oxley that he wanted to invest in the business. Synchron said Thursday it completed Read more…

Lexus is apparently working on a “virtual” manual transmission, reports the Verge, “to find out if the stick shift can survive the electric revolution…” British car enthusiast publication Evo reported this week that Lexus, which now leads Toyota’s high-performance EV efforts, is developing a kind of shifting system that mimics Read more…

This week the Atlantic published its list of “the 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022.” “We didn’t just get one ‘unheard-of’ cancer breakthrough; we got several in one year….” Is death reversible? It was this year for several pigs (or, at least, for their organs). By pumping an experimental Read more…