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Five years ago, Cortana was going to be Microsoft’s answer to Siri and Alexa, an AI-powered personal assistant capable of responding to voice commands,Today, if you click the Cortana button on a Windows 10 PC, you still get the “Ask…

Disney+ is now the third-biggest subscription-based streamer on the market. Netflix is still king, with 167 million subscribers worldwide, and Amazon AMZN is just behind with 150 million members (though that is linked to its flagship delivery service, rather than…

The almost $100 billion fitness industry has quickly shifted into a virtual world for those who have been able to quickly adapt. However, those who haven’t implemented a digital strategy may not make it out alive and if they do…

The world population is ageing and seeing out its twilight years with greater levels of illness, so a new way of addressing the biggest global killer is essential.A perfect healthcare system would have people taking much better control of their…

Overall, the market for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) is forecasted to generate over $10bn by 2023 according to Interact Analysis, and that prediction relies on data from before the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more in zdnet…

Magic Leap announced the acquisition of the Belgium-based startup that allows Magic Leap One users to engage in real-time telepresence conference calls using volumetrically captured avatars representing their real bodies.Concepts of communication imagined in science-fiction in the past 30 years…

Microsoft’s Plasma Bot self-screening tool is supporting the CoVIg-19 Alliance, a newly established group of biopharmaceutical companies that are looking to use people’s naturally produced antibodies in plasma – the liquid part of blood – for a potential large-scale treatment…

Genome editing is beginning to move from the laboratory into the clinic. A number of clinical trials are in progress, using genome-edited cells to treat disease in patients.But it is the prospect of heritable genome editing, in order to influence…

Today’s healthcare industry is built on scarcity. There are not enough physicians, hospital beds, medical devices, or drugs to go around, so these things are expensive and a pain to get (you know. As the population grows and ages, and…

Chen is one of the foremost experts on the indoor environment; specifically, how air moves through spaces like aircraft cabins and cruise ships. And he wants to see transit redesigned to accommodate cleaner air and safer travel in the face…