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Apple Watch's New High Blood Pressure Notifications Developed With AI
Many Apple Watches will soon be able to alert users about possible high blood pressure, reports Reuters — culminating six years of research and development:
Apple used AI to sort through the data from 100,000 people enrolled in a heart and movement study it originally launched in 2019 to see ...
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Why One Computer Science Professor is 'Feeling Cranky About AI' in Education
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Over at the Communications of the ACM, Bard College CS Prof Valerie Barr explains why she's Feeling Cranky About AI and CS Education. Having seen CS education go through a number of we-have-to-teach-this moments over the decades — introductory programmi...
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America's Space Force is Preparing for a New Kind of War
A July combat training exercise involved a satellite dish-style antenna that "could fire enough electromagnetic energy to fry the satellite 22,000 miles away," reports the Washington Post. But "Instead, the salvo would be more covert — millisecond pulses of energy that would subtly disrupt the...
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Disney Sued by Law Firm Wanting to Use 'Steamboat Willie' in Its Ads
Mickey Mouse's first movie Steamboat Willie entered the public domain in 2024.
Now one of America's largest personal injury firms is suing Disney, reports the Associated Press, "in an effort to get a ruling that would allow it to use Steamboat Willie in advertisements..."
[The law firm said] it had...
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Glitches Humiliated Zuck in Smart Glasses Launch. Meta CTO Explains What Happened
When Meta finally unveiled its newest smart glasses, CEO Mark Zuckerberg "drew more snickers than applause," wrote the New York Times. (Mashable points out a video call failing onstage followed by an unsuccessful recipe demonstration.)
Meta chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth later explained ...
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