Articles for category: Software (Tech & Development)

Google DeepMind Enhances AMIE for Long-Term Disease Management

Google DeepMind has extended the capabilities of its Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE) beyond diagnosis to support longitudinal disease management. The system is now designed to assist clinicians in monitoring disease progression, adjusting treatments, and adhering to clinical guidelines across multiple patient visits. AMIE’s updated framework introduces a two-agent model: The Dialogue Agent manages patient interactions, collects clinical information, and ensures consistent communication across visits. The Management Reasoning (Mx) Agent processes clinical data, guidelines, and patient history to generate structured treatment and monitoring plans. Source: Google Blog  The system relies on DeepMind’s Gemini AI model, leveraging

US cities warn of wave of unpaid parking phishing texts

US cities are warning of an ongoing mobile phishing campaign pretending to be texts from the city’s parking violation departments about unpaid parking invoices, that if unpaid, will incur an additional $35 fine per day. While parking scams have been around for years, a massive wave of phishing text messages has caused numerous cities throughout the US to issue warnings, including from Annapolis, Boston, Greenwich, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, Charlotte, San Diego, San Francisco, and many others. The current wave of texts started last December and has continued since, with BleepingComputer receiving a text targeting New York residents earlier this week. The

AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D arrive March 12, starting at $599

Something to look forward to: AMD has confirmed the pricing and launch date for its latest high-performance processors, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D, with MSRPs of $699 and $599, respectively. Both models are set to launch in a few days on March 12. Expect the full TechSpot review very soon. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D is a powerhouse, featuring 16 cores and 32 threads, with a base clock speed of 4.3 GHz and a boost clock of up to 5.7 GHz. It boasts 144MB of total cache, including AMD’s second-generation 3D V-Cache technology, which enhances performance by expanding

Best Internet Providers in Arizona

If you’re seeking rich history, you can’t go wrong with Arizona. It has everything to look out for: beautiful mountains, show-stopping vistas, the saguaro cacti and most importantly, Route 66. Its cities aren’t anything to sniff at either, with Dateland known for its famous date shakes, as well as busy, but picturesque Phoenix, terrific Tucson and fabulous Flagstaff. If you live in Arizona or want to move there, you’ll no doubt want to know more about your home internet options. What is the best internet provider in Arizona? Our experts here at CNET recommend CenturyLink as the top internet provider

From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that these programs analyze “the statistical properties of the language” to “make educated guesses based on the words you’ve typed previously.” Or, in the words of James Vincent, a human person: “These AI tools are vast autocomplete systems, trained to predict which word follows the next

The Netflix film adaptation of Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR now has its director

According to , Netflix has tapped Fast & Furious director Justin Lin to direct its upcoming movie adaptation of BRZRKR, the popular comic by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt about an immortal warrior. Netflix first plans to create both back in 2021, with Reeves starring in the former and returning to voice his character in the animated show. But, we’ve heard little about the projects since. In the meantime, Reeves and author China Miéville with The Book of Elsewhere, which was released last year. There are still no details on when the Netflix adaptations will air, but we can safely

The X-37B spaceplane lands after helping pave the way for “maneuver warfare”

On this mission, military officials said the X-37B tested “space domain awareness technology experiments” that aim to improve the Space Force’s knowledge of the space environment. Defense officials consider the space domain—like land, sea, and air—a contested environment that could become a battlefield in future conflicts. Last month, the Space Force released the first image of Earth from an X-37B in space. This image was captured in 2024 as the spacecraft flew in its high-altitude orbit, and shows a portion of the X-37B’s power-generating solar array. Credit: US Space Force The Space Force hasn’t announced plans for the next X-37B

Ignoring Protests, Christie’s Holds AI Art Auction, Makes Big Money

As Christie’s auction house planned the first-ever auction dedicated to AI-generated art works, over 5,600 people signed an online letter urging them to cancel it. “Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license,” the letter complained. “These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them. Your support of these models, and the people who use them, rewards and further incentivizes AI companies’ mass theft of human

Improving Japanese Input UX in Multilingual Applications: Properly Handling IME Conversion

Introduction In global web application development, multilingual support is an essential requirement. However, languages that use IME (Input Method Editor) such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean have unique input and conversion processes that require special consideration. This article explains issues with form operations in Japanese input and their solutions. Target Audience Web application developers Frontend developers Those involved in developing globally accessible applications The Problem: Event Handling During IME Conversion Japanese input involves a conversion process from “hiragana” to “katakana/kanji”. During this process, the following issue often occurs: Example: When trying to search for "Tokyo Tower" 1. Type "とうきょうたわー" (hiragana)