Asked if artificial intelligence would put radiologists out of business, Dr. Topol said, “Gosh, no!” The idea is to help doctors, not replace them. “It will make their lives easier,” he said. “Across the board, there’s a 30 percent rate of false negatives, things missed. It shouldn’t be hard to bring that number down.” There […]
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The Latest on Niki Lauda’s death (all times local): 11:15 a.m. A doctor who oversaw Niki Lauda’s lung transplant last year says the three-time Formula One champion had been in poor shape for some time. Walter Klepetko of Vienna General Hospital told the Austria Press Agency on Tuesday “it was a long process at the
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WASHINGTON — As the House’s day wound to a close on Monday, a sumptuous feast was being laid out in the Capitol Visitor Center. Dates, spiced rice, baked pumpkin, salad and fruit — and cans of whipped cream for sundaes. It was all prepared for an iftar, the meal eaten each night after sunset to
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Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday after anxiety over U.S. restrictions on sales to Chinese tech giant Huawei pulled Wall Street lower. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Seoul and Sydney advanced, while Tokyo and Hong Kong declined. Anxiety over U.S.-Chinese trade tension was reignited by Washington’s decision to require export licenses for technology sales to Huawei Technologies Ltd.
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Lilian Serrano’s mother-in-law had lots of stomach problems, but she always blamed food. Doctors at a San Diego-area clinic suspected Genoveva Angeles might have cancer, but they could not say for sure because they did not have the equipment to test for it and Angeles, who had been in the country illegally for 20 years,
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Image copyright Reuters Three handwritten wills have been found at the home of Aretha Franklin, months after the “Queen of Soul’s” death. Franklin died from pancreatic cancer in August and family members said at the time that she had left no will. But three documents were found earlier this month. Two from 2010 were recovered
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Image copyright Getty Images Tesco Bank is stopping new mortgage lending and is looking for ways to sell its existing mortgage portfolio. The bank, which started offering mortgages in 2012, has more than 23,000 mortgage customers, who have total lending balances of £3.7bn. Tesco Bank chief Gerry Mallon said: “In recent years, challenging market conditions
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Swansea-based RNLI lifeguard Darren Williams is on a mission to prevent children drowning in Bangladesh. It has one of the highest drowning rates in the world and Mr Williams works with the charity’s international programme trying to tackle the problem. Solutions can often be swimming or safety lessons, but also include less obvious ideas –
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BERLIN — On a recent Saturday afternoon, a hush fell in the bright, airy “reading-aloud” room at Krumulus, a small children’s bookstore in Berlin, as Sven Wallrodt, one of the store’s employees, stood up to speak. Brandishing a newly published illustrated children’s book about the life of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press,
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Octopad is an eight player controller linked to an old Nintendo Entertainment System. It enables games like Tetris and Super Mario Bros to be played by eight people at once rather than just a single player. Developed by Patrick Lemieux of UC Davis, California, the Octopad single button controllers mean each player can only trigger
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