Google Deepmind extends Stream App to Musgrove Park

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Google’s DeepMind implemented it’s Streams health app to Musgrove Park Hospital in Somerset.

Streams helps medical professionals spot signs of kidney failure but was controversial when it rolled out at Royal Free Hospital in London. As it sought access to 1.6million patient records.

According to the BBC there is no opt-out for patients who don’t want to share their personal data, with DeepMind keen to reiterate that no data is shared with it’s parent firm.

DeepMind is Google’s AI arm and development of the app didn’t involve any AI, DeepMind has a health division and are keen to explore ways in which it can be used within the NHS

Streams has been seen in a positive light by medical professionals but questions raised if the NHS should’ve shared data with Google.

Musgrove Park Hospital plans to hold workshops/open days with both the staff and the public to see how the app works and refused to rule out if it could be used in the future to detect health conditions.

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Nike: Race yourself

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Nike has built an LED Running track which allows you to race yourself!

Based in the Philippines it takes up an entire block, thanks to a shoe sensor which tracks a runner, the first lap is recorded and then on the second lap appears on the wall as the runners very own ‘avatar’, with up to 30 runners allowed to race at one time.

Check the video of it in action below:

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A man took a spirit level on a plane to prove earth is flat……

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A YouTuber named D Marble flew from North Carolina to Seattle, seems normal right? Well he took a spirit level on board to see if the pilot would dip the nose of the plane to “compensate for curvature”

In his YouTube video description D Marble states:

I recorded a 23 minute & 45 second time-lapse which by those measurements means the plane travelled a little over 203 miles. According to “Spherical Trigonometry” given to explain the Heliocentric model [a globe model], this should have resulted in the compensation of 5 miles of curvature. As you’ll see there was no measurable compensation for curvature……

He continues….

Most importantly…Bodies of Water (i.e. puddles, ponds, lakes, rivers, and oceans) do NOT curve into a sphere. Droplets…yes. Oceans…no! The Earth is composed of 70% water. Other than waves and other ripples, the surface of that water generally lays flat. Therefore, THE EARTH IS FLAT.

See his video below:

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WoeBot

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WoeBot a chatbot available only on Facebook Messenger is a therapeutic chatbot designed and created by a team of Stanford psychologists and AI experts and doesn’t show any personal information publically via the newsfeed.

A session with WoeBot is free for 14 sessions, then you can either pay weekly ($12), Monthly ($39) or annually ($312)

Silicon Valley is developing chatbots to help cure and treat mental disorders like depression, with studies already showing hope that therapy via a chatbot may work.

During a trial at Stanford, students aged 18-28 showed reductions in anxiety and depression when they used the Woebot for 2 weeks.

As many of those suffering from anxiety or depression cannot afford to see a therapist and pay for prescribed medications it is here where Woebot steps in and where Silicon Valley hope will help cure many of those who have the mental disorder.

Woebot is conversational and is appropriate for those aged 18 and older, if you’re younger you need a parents permission to sign up for it.

It can track moods, which are displayed weekly via graphs, looking for patterns that are out of the norm, learning its user via the amount of conversations they have. Woebot also has the ability ability to teach via cognitive behavioural therapy. (A structured talk therapy which normally lasts a few sessions)

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Twitter Re-Design

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Twitter  is looking a lot different, it’s more unified, profile pictures are circles and on mobile moves the profile page to the side of the app, accessed by tapping your profile picture at the top of the timeline.

It’s layout is still the same but makes use of whitespace better, the reply button is now a speech bubble, as according to Twitter people thought the arrow icon meant ‘delete or go back’ – while on iOS Twitter have integrated Safari View Controller to their app instead of their own in-app browser.

See below what the new design looks like!

The new Twitter is available now by downloading the latest update or by clicking here: Apple / Android

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Music composing robot!

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The Shimon robot has learned organically how to play music! As well as being incredibly cool, this robot goes some way to explaining how artificial intelligence can be creative!

Initially the robot had to learn more than 5,000 songs, 2 million motifs & rifs, it’s from this information that the Shimon learned how to compose music by using deep learning techniques to create two 30 second pieces of original pieces.

Researchers at Georgia Tech say that the music that the Shimon creates are a mix between jazz & classical, describing it as ‘soothing’ As well as utilizing deep learning the Shimon also uses a camera on its head to detect which notes to play.

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Slowing internet!

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In the next few months there could be a major shake up on the internet, a US government body is looking to ban net neutrality.

Net Neutrality: The basic right internet users have to access websites equally.

However giants such as Amazon and Reddit have spoken out against the move. Scrapping net neutrality would mean Internet Service Providers would make lots of money, whilst websites themselves wouldn’t benefit whatsoever. Directly affecting their business.

There’s currently an international protest against these proposed changes, as they could have an effect on internet freedom around the world.

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Driverless Taxi’s?

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Autonomous Taxi’s which don’t require a human as back up are one step closer to becoming reality after a test programme was announced which would trial these “on demand, driverless services” on public roads from next year.

Delphi and Transdev are looking to launch 2 Renault “Zoe” autonomous taxi’s in Rouen, Normandy and a shuttle van between a rail station and a campus in the University district of Paris-Saclay to trial this super cool scheme. During the scheme there’ll be drivers behind the wheel to take over if any problems arise, but the plan is to phase out behind the wheel drivers for employees at a central dispatch location to watch over journey’s and take over from there, manually if required.

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Drone Racing!

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Drone Racing League’s incredible finale took place at London’s Alexandra Palace on Tuesday June 13th where professional drone pilots, fully equipped with VR goggles giving them real time footage of what the drone is seeing, putting you the viewer and the pilots at the heart of the action, racing through various obstacles and paths at speeds over over 130 KPH! It seems complicated but the pro’s at the controls made it look incredible easy!

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GoPro Fusion

The Palm-Sized Fusion 360 Camera Is Like Using Six GoPros!

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The moment that we have all been waiting for.. GoPro have made a palm-sized 360 camera and they say that it is like using 6 GoPro’s at once! (How good is that?!)

The palm-sized shooter, which was initially unveiled in April, is the company’s first consumer 360-degree camera. It can take photos in 8K resolution and uses two spherical lenses to capture 360-degree material.

Design wise, the camera is coated in a rubber grip to ensure you don’t drop it, and comes with a little carry case to keep it safe.

Details on the Fusion are still sparse and GoPro hasn’t unveiled a price, but rival devices tend to retail for between $250 — $350.

More details to come soon!