Diabetes patients could monitor glucose with lightwaves. Future versions of the noninvasive prototype may be as small as a watch. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A new, noninvasive blood-glucose monitoring system may allow people with diabetes to finally ditch their painful finger pricks and under the skin sensors. Although the current iteration is comparatively bulky, MIT scientists writing in the journal say they are well on their way to scaling down their invention.

With CES coming to a close, we've seen a ton of cutting-edge tech, and we're only a week into 2025! A lot of the products announced at the show won't be available until later this year, but there are still plenty that are available to buy now. Below, we've gathered a bunch of devices available for purchase or preorder. Get best-in-class reporting that's too important to ignore for just 2.50 1 per month for 1 year. Includes unlimited digital access and exclusive subscriber-only content. This is OnePlus' latest flagship Android smartphone. The company also released the OnePlus 13R, which is a more affordable (and a bit less specced) model, but it goes on sale January 14 (you can preorder it now).

Is broccoli or beetroot the best option for your personal health? Which foods are likely to trigger the biggest glucose spikes or cholesterol surges in your blood? Custom diets are the next frontier in nutrition science – and artificial intelligence (AI) will play a key role in figuring out what each of us should, and shouldn't, be eating. An ambitious program called Nutrition for Precision Health (NPH) kicked off in the US in January 2022 when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $170 million to fund institutions across the country to conduct a five-year study with 10,000 participants. CNN spoke to Holly Nicastro, program director in the NIH office of nutrition research and coordinator of NPH, about the aims and scale of the project and how AI can benefit our health by helping to devise optimal diets for every individual.

Regardless of the industry that you're in, it is harder than ever to find truly new customer insights. Research budgets are smaller, the low-hanging fruit has already been picked so you need to dig deeper to find new insights, and traditional research can be expensive and time-consuming. But artificial intelligence, or machine learning, is changing the game, according to John Mitchell, president and managing principal at Applied Marketing Science, a Waltham, MA-based research and marketing firm that helps its clients better understand and incorporate the voice of the customer into product development. Between social media, online customer reviews, and customer service calls, companies already have billions of user-generated content (UGC). "Consumers are freely volunteering insights about products and services at the moment of truth," Mitchell told BIOMEDevice Boston attendees on Tuesday. The problem is that sifting through all of that to find valuable product development insights is simply too much for one human reader to process on their own, Mitchell said.

Medical students are using a robot boy to better understand how young patients respond to treatment. Called HAL, the realistic robot can cry, bleed, talk and go into anaphylactic shock.

Over the last decade, the "data revolution" has touched every aspect of our work and personal lives. Today's business challenges have never been more complex, and the critical insights that can address these challenges are often buried in an avalanche of data. In today's marketplace, the business that wins, is the business that "thinks." The viability of a company in the marketplace now depends on its ability to use data and analytics to fuel a thinking business. Companies in industries as diverse as healthcare, retail, banking and manufacturing are already using cognitive technologies to reshape business and do things faster and more efficiently than ever before.