Microsoft Corp. and G42 have announced a significant digital investment in Kenya, marking the largest private sector digital investment in the country’s history. The $1 billion investment will support various initiatives outlined in a comprehensive package aimed at promoting economic development in East Africa. One of the key components of the investment is the construction … Read more
Google is updating its Digital Wellbeing app for Android, with changes that could impact how users monitor and manage their smartphone usage. The changes were discovered by Assembly Debug in the APK of the 1.11 beta version of the app. One of the upcoming updates includes renaming “App Timers” to “App Limits,” which will have … Read more
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently discussed the company’s latest foray into the field of clinical medicine at the Microsoft Build conference in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft has partnered with Providence and the University of Washington to develop GigaPath, a groundbreaking basic model for pathology that utilizes generative AI technology. This model has been pre-trained with real-world … Read more
A team of researchers from Microsoft, Providence Health System, and the University of Washington have collaborated to create a groundbreaking generative AI model for diagnosing cancer. The model, called Prov-GigaPath, utilizes over a billion images of tissue samples from 30,000 patients to accurately identify cancer in clinical settings. This new AI technology has the potential … Read more
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of Amazon, is collaborating with Indian startups to utilize Generative AI (GenAI) in fields like agriculture, healthcare, education, and environmental sustainability. One example is CropIn, a startup partnering with AWS to address world hunger and food insecurity by leveraging core data architecture, analytics, modeling, and simulation components … Read more
A partnership between Microsoft, the University of Washington, and Providence Health Network is working to enhance artificial intelligence in the field of cancer diagnosis through digital pathology. By collaborating, they aim to address challenges in implementing AI on a larger scale. The initiative seeks to revolutionize the way cancer is diagnosed by leveraging technology to … Read more
Digital pathology is an innovative field at the intersection of digital transformation in biomedicine and generative AI technology. Whole-slide imaging, which converts microscope slides of tumor tissue into high-resolution digital images, plays a crucial role in deciphering tumor microenvironments for precision immunotherapy. However, handling gigapixel whole-slide images poses computational challenges that conventional vision transformers struggle … Read more
In recent years, the landscape of digital media has been shifting dramatically, with a significant decrease in traffic from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. While these platforms used to drive a large portion of website traffic, that number has dwindled to just 1.7 percent, with Facebook removing its news tab and Twitter becoming … Read more
The dilemma of choosing between the Google Pixel 8a and Pixel 8 is exacerbated by the fluctuating prices and staggered release dates of the phones. The Pixel 8a is priced at $499, while the Pixel 8 starts at $699. It can be challenging to justify spending an extra $200 for the Pixel 8 when the … Read more
Consumer adoption of digital payments and digitization has increased significantly during the pandemic, becoming a common expectation for most individuals. In India, where Android dominates the smartphone market, Google has finally launched Google Wallet after two years of its re-launch as a digital wallet platform in the US. Google Wallet is a digital wallet service … Read more