No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins 'We looked very hard for a smoking gun linking technology and well-being and we didn't find it' Science29 Nov 2023 | 35
Zuckerberg accused of OK'ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids 'Meta knows what it is doing is bad for children ... it is now there in black and white' Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 15
Long-term space missions may make liftoff harder for male astronauts Study suggests galactic cosmic radiation could damage below-the-belt tissues Bootnotes23 Nov 2023 | 34
Tipsy tongues tell all: How your sloshed speech could snitch to Siri Alexa, am I wasted? Science10 Nov 2023 | 12
Mac daddy Woz hospitalized in Mexico over mystery malady State of Apple co-founder's health is unclear – it could be a stroke or vertigo Bootnotes09 Nov 2023 | 17
Bored Ape NFT party is a real eyesore, say irritated attendees They're ugly but UV lighting blamed for human damage, not the dumb idea Offbeat06 Nov 2023 | 23
Infosec pros can secure IT, but have harder time securing job satisfaction Industry facing burnout scare as workplace issues snowball Security02 Nov 2023 | 2
NASA awards $1.5m for 'three steps to Mars' astronaut health program One (very) small leap for humanity's future in space Science02 Oct 2023 | 3
Contract for England's controversial health data platform delayed NHS also launches £2M project to engage patients with data strategy Databases29 Sep 2023 | 14
Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss Douglas Adams was right! Mice may hold key to exploring the universe Science20 Sep 2023 | 43
Pangolin-inspired robot can roll around your guts administering treatments Flexing device works where surgeons find hard to reach Science22 Jun 2023 | 4
Oracle Cerner bleeds jobs as Veterans Affairs project stalls Health acquisition freezes recruitment after $10 billion contract put on hold Databases16 Jun 2023 | 13
Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice' Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union AI + ML31 May 2023 | 20
Individual data platforms for all health providers under controversial NHS plans Procurement under threat of legal action imagines trusts will tailor systems for their own use cases PaaS + IaaS31 May 2023 | 11
Keir Starmer's techno-fix for the NHS: Déjà vu disaster or brave new blunder? Opinion Beware over promising benefits and underestimating complexity Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 138
Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records Except maybe in America, where life expectancy keeps dropping Science31 Mar 2023 | 117
Havana Syndrome definitely (maybe) not caused by brain-scrambling energy weapons Pre-existing mental health issues and the stress of working in Cuba are more likely culprits Bootnotes02 Mar 2023 | 36
Tech job vacancies hamper England's digital health plans £1.1M ambition to recruit 10,000 pros 'inadequate' says committee Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 45
Elon Musk's Neuralink probed over pathogen transport Surely this is how at least one Michael Crichton novel starts Science10 Feb 2023 | 30
UK health minister confirms data platform worth £480m will replicate Palantir dashboards Suppliers competing for lucrative prize will rely on 'interoperability' of existing work from US spy-tech firm Databases06 Feb 2023 | 23
Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss Surely there are quicker and more effective ways to end your co-workers Offbeat20 Jan 2023 | 208
Period-tracking apps, search engines on notice by draft law And no more geofencing around health clinics either Security18 Jan 2023 | 9
Researchers teach AI to pinpoint mutations linked to cancer An ounce of prediction is worth a pound of cure AI + ML05 Jan 2023 | 1
Breast cancer screening AI app OK'd by watchdog When putting software on trial is a good thing AI + ML15 Dec 2022 |
US could save billions in health costs if it changed wind energy strategy Socio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers Science05 Dec 2022 | 22
Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info Supplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win' PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2022 | 57
Watchdog warns UK health data platform could damage patients' trust 'This store of confidential data is a national treasure that must never be compromised or treated carelessly' Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 30
UK's National Health Service will roll existing Palantir work into patient data platform Does spy-tech supplier have a head start in bidding for the controversial deal it considers a 'must win'? Databases21 Nov 2022 | 37
Health insurer Medibank's data breach diagnosis keeps getting worse All four million customers at risk of having records of medical treatments exposed Cyber-crime26 Oct 2022 | 11
Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2022 | 41
Mask gizmo wirelessly transmits data on wearer's health Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit Science21 Oct 2022 | 18
AI eye-scanner can tell whether you'll croak it from a heart attack If and when this hits the mainstream, who's going to trust their retinas to random models? AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 19
NYC issues super upbeat PSA for surviving the nuclear apocalypse It's the end of the world as we know it, and you'll be fine Science12 Jul 2022 | 59
UK govt promises to sink billions into electronic health records for England NHS App role expanded following perceived COVID-era success PaaS + IaaS30 Jun 2022 | 62
Half of developers still at screens even during breaks Going for a walk: Good. Doomscrolling: Bad Software11 May 2022 | 33
Can AI transformer models help design drugs and treat incurable diseases? Special report From protein prediction to drug generation, neural networks are revolutionizing medication AI + ML09 May 2022 | 8
Algorithm can predict pancreatic cancer from CT scans well before diagnosis Software picks up subtle clues human doctors miss AI + ML27 Apr 2022 | 18
'Virtually no difference' between AI and humans in diagnosing prediabetes Is that... a good or bad thing? AI + ML06 Apr 2022 | 25
AI drug algorithms can be flipped to invent bioweapons Our model took mere hours to suggest 40,000 potentially lethal compounds, says startup AI + ML18 Mar 2022 | 40
Fujitsu claims world leadership in headache management For actual headaches, not tech messes, but hasn't said why its staff have a problem that needed tackling Science04 Mar 2022 | 14
Stressed-out IT workers, software devs – we're not being funny but have you tried rebooting your breathing? Forget productivity, find a way to unplug and recover Devops17 Sep 2021 | 27
COVID-19 cases surge as do sales of fake vaccination cards – around $100 for something you could get free Vaccine deceit is infectious Security12 Aug 2021 | 202
Boffins find an 'actionable clock' hiding in your blood, ticking away to your death Monitoring a person's 'iAge' may provide a means to prolong life, say scientists Science13 Jul 2021 | 113
Researchers find evidence that stress does turn your hair grey, and it can be reversed – you just need a holiday But the hair dye market isn't about to implode, there are limits Science24 Jun 2021 | 25
No digital equivalent to the impulse aisle found as online grocery shoppers buy fewer sweet treats than in real life Supermarkets presumably working on a solution to this 'problem' right now Offbeat09 Jun 2021 | 17
Mammoth grab of GP patient data in the UK set to benefit private-sector market access as rules remain unchanged No policy shakeup to deal with snatch of info from primary physicians Security17 May 2021 | 39
Co-founder of coronavirus vaccine biz holds in-person tech event... 20+ attendees later test positive for COVID-19 Serial entrepreneur regrets the error Science17 Feb 2021 | 30
Update to NHS COVID-19 app brings improved warnings, end to 'ghost' notifications It's all about timing, apparently Software29 Oct 2020 | 32
What a good eye-dea: Battery-less, grain-of-sand-sized 2.4GHz transmitter to help save your eyesight Wireless sensor to show 'how the body is responding in real-time' to treatment Science05 Aug 2020 | 25
Taiwan collars coronavirus quarantine scofflaws with smartphone geo-fences. So, which nation will be next? Just don't let your battery die or you'll have to explain it to the police Personal Tech24 Mar 2020 | 29
White House turns to Big Tech to fix coronavirus blunders while classifying previous conversations What are Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft et al supposed to do? We have some ideas Science11 Mar 2020 | 118
F8 accompli: Facebook, Epic Games, Microsoft, Unity abandon conference plans over coronavirus fears Big names drop out of GDC, HP axes partner event, stock markets in free fall Software27 Feb 2020 | 7
What's the German word for stalling technology rollouts over health fears? Cos that plus 5G equals Switzerland Technologieverzögerung? Uh, Kommunikationsbürokratie? Networks12 Feb 2020 | 38
Google brings its secret health data stockpiling systems to the US Updated Remember the UK DeepMind scandal? No? Personal Tech12 Nov 2019 | 46
All we need is just a little patients: Google's Alphabet hires new chief health officer Third new senior health role in 4 months. Cough and say arrrrgh On-Prem18 Oct 2019 | 7
The Tell-Tale Heart! Boffins build an AI that can tell your sex using just your heartbeat Problem is, the scientists don't understand how it's doing it AI + ML28 Aug 2019 | 34
It's official – Google AI gives you cancer ...diagnosis in real time: Neural net can spot breast, prostate tumors Boffins spill beans on super 'scope machine-learning tech AI + ML14 Aug 2019 | 27
Surrey Uni boffins take us a step closer to the cyberpunk future with cell-scanning nanotech Scalable probe manufacturing process a boon for medicine, human-computer interfaces Science04 Jul 2019 | 1
Bollocks or brutal truth: Do smart-mobes make us grow skull horns? We take a closer look at boffins' startling claims Phone bone grown from shoddy body tone, it's shown Science21 Jun 2019 | 38
Rubber glove time! Microsoft flings open gates to its very own Azure FHIR health data fest SQL support and Release 4 arrives in cloudy open source service SaaS12 Jun 2019 | 5
Comcast – the cable giant America loves and trusts – confirms in-home health device to keep tabs on subscribers Meanwhile, privacy advocates run screaming from news, trip, end up in hospital Science22 May 2019 | 29