software
Avegen Health, a company that builds patient-facing apps
Posted in Interviews, Medicine on 23rd Dec, 2022
by Alex Muller
Dr Nayan Kalnad is the CEO and co-founder of Avegen Health, a company that builds apps for those living with long-term conditions. Avegen Health has created a cloud-based platform, HealthMachine, that clients can use to design bespoke apps for specific health conditions.
A radical project: video game design meets cancer research
Posted in Games, Hardware, Medicine, Science, Software on 12th Dec, 2022
by Alex Muller
The worlds of cancer research and virtual reality (VR) have collided. The result is unlike anything that has ever been seen in either field. Incredibly, the same techniques that make video games so popular are now advancing our understanding of cancer.
AI Uses a Scan of Your Retina to Predict Your Risk of Heart Disease
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 27th Oct, 2022
by Alex Muller
"AI-enabled vasculometry risk prediction is fully automated, low cost, non-invasive, and has the potential for reaching a higher proportion of the population in the community because of 'high street' availability and because blood sampling or are not needed."
Controlling Artificial Intelligence
Posted in Software on 30th Sep, 2022
by Alex Muller
Anthropologist Beth Singler at the University of Cambridge studies our relationship with AI and robotics and believes that we should be more critical of those making decisions about how AI is used.
Pfizer Pays Almost $120 Million For App That Claims to Detect COVID From A Cough
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 30th Sep, 2022
by Alex Muller
Pfizer has shelled out nearly US$120 million to acquire a small Australian company claiming to have developed a smartphone app that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 by analysing the sound of a cough.