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Amazon is blowing out LEVOIT air purifiers so you can filter out irritants

Popular Science

The air in your house sucks--fix it with these Amazon deals on air purifiers and humidifiers. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. If your sinuses are staging a revolt or your living room smells suspiciously like last night's stir-fry, it's probably time to call in a serious air purifier. LEVOIT's lineup routinely tops our lists because models cover everything from compact bedroom workhorses to family-room heavy hitters, and these Amazon deals are a chance to upgrade your home air quality before the next wave of wildfire smoke, pet shedding, or pollen hits. And there are also humidifiers on sale.

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Walmart's Black Friday Dyson deals are here: Save up to 300 on vacuums and air purifiers

Popular Science

Gear Home Walmart's Black Friday Dyson deals are here: Save up to $300 on vacuums and air purifiers Dyson gear is never cheap, but Walmart has fans, air purifiers, and vacuums for their lowest prices of the year for Black Friday. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Dyson makes impressive home appliances, but they're not cheap. Walmart just dropped its full-on Black Friday deals and that includes year-low prices on Dyson vacuums and air purifiers . These prices likely won't get any lower if you wait, so you might as well just grab what you want now and make your home more comfortable with the power of engineering.


Shark's pet-friendly air purifier is cheaper than ever at Amazon for a limited time

Popular Science

Gear Home Shark's pet-friendly air purifier is cheaper than ever at Amazon for a limited time The most popular Shark air purifiers are on sale for their lowest prices of the year at Amazon. The deals also include vacuums, styling products, and more. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Have you turned your home's heat on for the winter yet? I finally gave in and switched my thermostat over to heat only to find myself smelling the familiar dusty scent emanating through my vents.

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DINO-CVA: A Multimodal Goal-Conditioned Vision-to-Action Model for Autonomous Catheter Navigation

Fekri, Pedram, Roshanfar, Majid, Barbeau, Samuel, Famouri, Seyedfarzad, Looi, Thomas, Podolsky, Dale, Zadeh, Mehrdad, Dargahi, Javad

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Cardiac catheterization remains a cornerstone of minimally invasive interventions, yet it continues to rely heavily on manual operation. Despite advances in robotic platforms, existing systems are predominantly follow-leader in nature, requiring continuous physician input and lacking intelligent autonomy. This dependency contributes to operator fatigue, more radiation exposure, and variability in procedural outcomes. This work moves towards autonomous catheter navigation by introducing DINO-CVA, a multimodal goal-conditioned behavior cloning framework. The proposed model fuses visual observations and joystick kinematics into a joint embedding space, enabling policies that are both vision-aware and kinematic-aware. Actions are predicted autoregressively from expert demonstrations, with goal conditioning guiding navigation toward specified destinations. A robotic experimental setup with a synthetic vascular phantom was designed to collect multimodal datasets and evaluate performance. Results show that DINO-CVA achieves high accuracy in predicting actions, matching the performance of a kinematics-only baseline while additionally grounding predictions in the anatomical environment. These findings establish the feasibility of multimodal, goal-conditioned architectures for catheter navigation, representing an important step toward reducing operator dependency and improving the reliability of catheterbased therapies.


Navigating the EU AI Act: Foreseeable Challenges in Qualifying Deep Learning-Based Automated Inspections of Class III Medical Devices

Diaz, Julio Zanon, Brennan, Tommy, Corcoran, Peter

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

As deep learning (DL) technologies advance, their application in automated visual inspection for Class III medical devices offers significant potential to enhance quality assurance and reduce human error. However, the adoption of such AI-based systems introduces new regulatory complexities-particularly under the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, which imposes high-risk system obligations that differ in scope and depth from established regulatory frameworks such as the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and the U.S. FDA Quality System Regulation (QSR). This paper presents a high-level technical assessment of the foreseeable challenges that manufacturers are likely to encounter when qualifying DL-based automated inspections -- specifically static models -- within the existing medical device compliance landscape. It examines divergences in risk management principles, dataset governance, model validation, explainability requirements, and post-deployment monitoring obligations. The discussion also explores potential implementation strategies and highlights areas of uncertainty, including data retention burdens, global compliance implications, and the practical difficulties of achieving statistical significance in validation with limited defect data. Disclaimer: This paper presents a technical perspective and does not constitute legal or regulatory advice.


The air in your house sucks--fix it with these Prime Day deals on Levoit air purifiers and humidifiers

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Amazon Prime Day is live. See the best deals HERE. Air quality can make a huge difference in your home's comfort level. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Unfortunately, dust, pet hair, pollen, and a ton of other airborne nonsense wants to get in the way of our good times.

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Viral collision of delivery robot and man in mobility scooter sparks online firestorm

Los Angeles Times

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Mark Chaney filmed the Serve Robotics device repeatedly swerving into his path. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . A collision between a delivery robot and a man using a mobility scooter in West Hollywood received more than 26 million views.


The Download: therapists secretly using AI, and Apple AirPods' hearing aid potential

MIT Technology Review

Supershoes are reshaping distance running Since 2016, when Nike introduced the Vaporfly, a paradigm-shifting shoe that helped athletes run more efficiently (and therefore faster), the elite running world has muddled through a period of soul-searching over the impact of high-tech footwear on the sport. "Supershoes" --which combine a lightweight, energy-returning foam with a carbon-fiber plate for stiffness--have been behind every broken world record in distances from 5,000 meters to the marathon since 2020. To some, this is a sign of progress. In much of the world, elite running lacks a widespread following. Record-breaking adds a layer of excitement.


Resilient Multi-Agent Negotiation for Medical Supply Chains:Integrating LLMs and Blockchain for Transparent Coordination

ALMutairi, Mariam, Kim, Hyungmin

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Global health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have exposed critical weaknesses in traditional medical supply chains, including inefficiencies in resource allocation, lack of transparency, and poor adaptability to dynamic disruptions. This paper presents a novel hybrid framework that integrates blockchain technology with a decentralized, large language model (LLM) powered multi-agent negotiation system to enhance the resilience and accountability of medical supply chains during crises. In this system, autonomous agents-representing manufacturers, distributors, and healthcare institutions-engage in structured, context-aware negotiation and decision-making processes facilitated by LLMs, enabling rapid and ethical allocation of scarce medical resources. The off-chain agent layer supports adaptive reasoning and local decision-making, while the on-chain blockchain layer ensures immutable, transparent, and auditable enforcement of decisions via smart contracts. The framework also incorporates a formal cross-layer communication protocol to bridge decentralized negotiation with institutional enforcement. A simulation environment emulating pandemic scenarios evaluates the system's performance, demonstrating improvements in negotiation efficiency, fairness of allocation, supply chain responsiveness, and auditability. This research contributes an innovative approach that synergizes blockchain trust guarantees with the adaptive intelligence of LLM-driven agents, providing a robust and scalable solution for critical supply chain coordination under uncertainty.


Systems-Theoretic and Data-Driven Security Analysis in ML-enabled Medical Devices

Mitra, Gargi, Hallajiyan, Mohammadreza, Kim, Inji, Dharmalingam, Athish Pranav, Elnawawy, Mohammed, Iqbal, Shahrear, Pattabiraman, Karthik, Alemzadeh, Homa

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The integration of AI/ML into medical devices is rapidly transforming healthcare by enhancing diagnostic and treatment facilities. However, this advancement also introduces serious cybersecurity risks due to the use of complex and often opaque models, extensive interconnectivity, interoperability with third-party peripheral devices, Internet connectivity, and vulnerabilities in the underlying technologies. These factors contribute to a broad attack surface and make threat prevention, detection, and mitigation challenging. Given the highly safety-critical nature of these devices, a cyberattack on these devices can cause the ML models to mispredict, thereby posing significant safety risks to patients. Therefore, ensuring the security of these devices from the time of design is essential. This paper underscores the urgency of addressing the cybersecurity challenges in ML-enabled medical devices at the pre-market phase. We begin by analyzing publicly available data on device recalls and adverse events, and known vulnerabilities, to understand the threat landscape of AI/ML-enabled medical devices and their repercussions on patient safety. Building on this analysis, we introduce a suite of tools and techniques designed by us to assist security analysts in conducting comprehensive premarket risk assessments. Our work aims to empower manufacturers to embed cybersecurity as a core design principle in AI/ML-enabled medical devices, thereby making them safe for patients.