If you have a query about your prescription drugs, you’re better off asking Google Assistant than Siri or Amazon’s Alexa. That’s the conclusion of a new piece of research, published in the journal Nature Digital Medicine. While you’re best off asking a human doctor, of course, the research was intended to see how accurate Google, Amazon and Apple’s AI assistants are at explaining the 50 most commonly prescribed medicines. Fossat told CNBC. “It’s especially important to research these voice assistant tools, given the growing demand for them in health care.” latest generation of Apple Watch. Tim Cook has also talked about Apple’s contribution to health being a lasting legacy for the company. This is one area where Apple could work to up its game. … [Read more...] about Google Assistant is a better virtual pharmacist than Siri
Google One rolls out new $0.99 movie rental offer for members
If you are a Google One member, you can now get a $.99 movie rental on Google Play for any movie with a limit of one redemption per Google One plan. While the latest Google One promotion is certainly not the most exciting yet, those of you who are interested in claiming the offer will have to do so before September 30, 2019. As noted by 9to5Google, the movie rental offer is available with all Google One storage plans, including the base $19.99 annual plan that comes with 100GB storage. A much more exciting Google One promotion was introduced in March this year, when Google started sending out emails with a promo code for a free Google Home Mini to valued 2TB Google One members. To redeem the latest offer, you will first need to open the Google One Android app or head over to the Google One website. When you tap on the Google Play movie rental offer, you will be shown the terms and conditions of the offer before you can redeem it. As mentioned earlier, the offer ends on September 30, … [Read more...] about Google One rolls out new $0.99 movie rental offer for members
Distracted Kindergartners May Earn Less As Adults
If you're wondering why your salary is so low, it bears asking: Were you inattentive as a kindergartner? According to a 30-year study, children who were distracted kindergartners earned less money, on average, in their early 30s than their more attentive classmates did. While these findings may seem discouraging (after all, aren't kindergartners known for being rambunctious?), the researchers see it another way. "Early behaviors are modifiable," they wrote in the study, "making them key targets for early intervention." [11 Facts Every Parent Should Know About Their Baby's Brain] In other words, if this behavior is caught early enough, perhaps children can learn to become more attentive over time, which could help them later in life, the researchers said. Even so, these results are correlational, meaning it's not clear if one feature actually causes another. And, according to an expert not involved in the study, it's unclear why the link between inattention and lower salary exists. … [Read more...] about Distracted Kindergartners May Earn Less As Adults
Does the Samsung Galaxy Watch 2 codename tell us anything?
Samsung launched the Galaxy Watch alongside the Galaxy Note 9, so we're expecting to see the Galaxy Watch 2 unveiled alongside the Galaxy Note 10 on August 7. We don't know a whole lot about the upcoming smartwatch yet, but we've just heard one small bit of information.Sources for Sammobile told the publication that the Galaxy Watch 2 is going by the codename 'Renaissance', which is fitting given the 'Da Vinci' codename for the Galaxy Note 10.It doesn't tell us that much about the device, but we can try and guess at what Samsung is going for based on the meaning of the word 'renaissance', which the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as "A movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity" or "Rebirth, revival".Merriam-Webster: Renaissance2. A movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity 3. Rebirth, revivalIf we assume Samsung is aiming for the first definition, it suggests an emphasis on artistic expression for the user, which ties in with the … [Read more...] about Does the Samsung Galaxy Watch 2 codename tell us anything?
Digging into the new features in OpenZFS post-Linux migration
ZFS on Linux 0.8 (ZoL) brought tons of new features and performance improvements when it was released on May 23. They came after Delphix announced that it was migrating its own product to Linux back in March 2018. We'll go over some of the most exciting May features (like ZFS native encryption) here today. For the full list—including both new features and performance improvements not covered here—you can visit the ZoL 0.8.0 release on Github. (Note that ZoL 0.8.1 was released last week, but since ZFS on Linux follows semantic versioning, it's a bugfix release only.) Unfortunately for Ubuntu fans, these new features won't show up in Canonical's repositories for quite some time—October 2019's forthcoming interim release, Eoan Ermine, is still showing 0.7.12 in its repos. We can hope that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (which has yet to be named) will incorporate the 0.8.x branch, but there's no official word so far; if you're running … [Read more...] about Digging into the new features in OpenZFS post-Linux migration