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You might not be campaigning to be America's next president, or have any desire to hold such a demanding office (bless you, Hillary), but wouldn't it still be nice to be treated like POTUS when you travel? Or, at least spend a few days in the presidential suite feeling like one of the world's most … Election jokes are i Saturday Night Live' /i s bread and butter, so it should come as no surprise that the cast took aim at Donald Trump's hot mic scandal. But host Lin-Manuel Miranda also got a chance to shine in his opening monologue. Below, we've rounded up the must-see moments from last night's /b … Humans may live longer and longer, but eventually we all grow old and die. This leads to a simple question: Is there an intrinsic maximum limit to human lifespan or not?
Snap It promises to calculate calories based on photos of food... eventually
Launched by digital health and weight-loss platform Lose It!, the new feature of an already existing app proposes a simple solution to those who struggle to keep track of their caloric intake: Take a photo of your food, and Snap It will immediately display its calorie count Showing people the caloric value of their foods before they eat them can help modify their eating habits. Some studies have shown that keeping a food journal helps people stick to their diet. And in an effort to fight rising obesity rates, the FDA announced in 2014 that chain restaurants throughout the U.S. will have to post calorie information in their menus (the rule is set to go into effect sometime next year). But the FDA rules won't apply to all restaurants. And food diets are cumbersome, tending to go the way of new year's resolutions.
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Humans may live longer and longer, but eventually we all grow old and die. This leads to a simple question: Is there an intrinsic maximum limit to human lifespan or not? There are two equally simple answers. Either there is a limit or there isn't. Soft pretzels are one of the best things to come out of concession stands, but homemade pretzels are a million times better.
Why This Toyota Robot Might Have More Emotional Intelligence Than Your Boss
You walk into the break room and sit down for a cup of hot brew. The boss is there, flipping through his personal Instagram account. You think about asking about the weather, but he abruptly marches off, heading to a meeting. Wait, this person is your boss? What seems like a low emotional intelligence (or EQ) could also be a sign of someone who simply doesn't care about your day or that you recently knocked a sales presentation out of the park.
These Startups Bridge the Digital Divide
The migration to online and mobile has created a conundrum for banks. They have worked hard to sell the convenience of digital channels to the point that they now find themselves in reactive mode -- they are waiting for customers to need something. The 20 startups selected for this year's FinTech Forward Companies to Watch are helping banks replicate, and in some cases enhance, the close bonds they often share with their customers in person through digital channels. The companies are redefining personal banking and personal security. They're using artificial intelligence to offer virtual assistance.
The Evolution of Automation: Meet the Restaurant Run by Robots
Robot automation is a rapidly rising trend in many major manufacturing areas, from cars to construction to clothing, and bots are also taking over customer service jobs, like retail assistant or even food deliverer. Now, one startup is putting robots somewhere relatively new: the kitchen. Zume Pizza in Mountain View, California, is letting robots make their pizzas and reducing labor costs in the process. To be specific, Zume is having robots take over the tasks humans traditionally have difficulty doing. These robots spread sauce evenly and work the 426 C (800 F) oven, a workplace hazard for humans.
Machine Learning and NLP Are Emerging as Key Tools for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease
Winterlight Labs, a spinoff from the University of Toronto, is using natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to identify people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other forms of dementia based on patterns in their recorded speech. The World Health Organization estimates that 47.5 million people in the world have dementia, which is defined as a chronic or persistent disorder of the brain marked by lapses in memory, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. In developed countries, AD is one of the most costly of all diseases to treat. Every year in the United States, 236,000 people are diagnosed with AD. There are an additional 100,000 healthy individuals over the age of 60 who seek AD screening.
45 digital health startups that raised money in Q3 2016
For the third quarter of 2016, MobiHealthNews tracked just shy of 600 million in deals. While a few large deals anchored the quarter, the majority of the 45 we tracked this quarter were small; only seven were more than 20 million, most were 10 million or less. For this analysis, we've omitted investments in joint ventures like Verily and Sanofi's OnDuo as well as grant funding. Read on for the 45 deals in the digital health space we tracked throughout the quarter, listed in order from largest to smallest amount of funding. Canada-based wearable technology company Thalmic Labs, which makes the connected armband Myo, raised 120 million in Series B funding in a round led by Intel Capital, the Amazon Alexa Fund and Fidelity Investments Canada.
The chatbot will see you now: AI may play doctor in the future of healthcare
A supercomputer whirs away in London, crunching complex drug chemistries into deep learning algorithms to discover new medications. A few miles away, a DeepMind neural network scans millions of images from Moorfields Eye Hospital, searching for signs of eye disease. The application casually asks if you still have that headache from yesterday and if you'd like to book a doctor's appointment for tomorrow. Of all the fields that artificial intelligence will disrupt in the coming years, healthcare may see the greatest paradigm shift. AI's influence in the industry will be deep and broad.
Deep Learning Cuts Error Rate for Breast Cancer Diagnosis NVIDIA Blog
If there's one thing doctors and patients want from breast cancer diagnoses, it's reliability. Keeping up with the massive flow of research data on breast cancer is a challenge for scientists. And the variety of methods used to analyze that data make reliable predictions difficult to come by. A team from Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) tackled this issue using deep learning, in the 2016 Camelyon Grand Challenge. Hosted by the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, the competition aims to determine how algorithms can help pathologists better identify cancer in lymph node images.