Software incorrectly tells 400 people they have cancer
Published in IoT


That will ruin your day

A biotechnology company selling a $949 blood test that it bills as a "first of its kind" to detect cancer said it incorrectly informed about 400 customers that they might have the disease.

Salesforce said its AI can spot cancer
Published in AI
Friday, 11 December 2020 10:25

Salesforce said its AI can spot cancer


92 percent accuracy

Salesforce has been showing off its ReceptorNet, a machine learning system which it said can spot a critical biomarker for cancer 92 percent of the time.

Intel sets its AI onto brain tumours
Published in AI
Monday, 11 May 2020 10:43

Intel sets its AI onto brain tumours


AI uses federated learning

Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) are setting up a federation with 29 international healthcare and research institutions to train artificial intelligence (AI) models that identify brain tumours using a privacy-preserving technique called federated learning.

IBM open sources AI to help find cure for cancer
Published in AI


PaccMann wants open sauce flavour

IBM has open-sourced three artificial intelligence (AI) projects tailored to help cure cancer.

IBM voices its cancer success
Published in AI
Friday, 21 September 2018 10:41

IBM voices its cancer success


Winning battles not the war

The CEO of IBM, Ginni Rometty, has hit back on claims that IBM tech was not as successful at fighting cancer as it would like.

Don’t keep your mobile phone close
Published in Mobiles
Monday, 18 December 2017 10:37

Don’t keep your mobile phone close


It could give you cancer

There is some bad news for Apple fanboys who take their mobile phone to bed with them so that they will dream that Siri is a real girlfriend. It could be that this behaviour is just nature's way of taking you out of the gene pool.

Microsoft thinks it will cure cancer in a decade
Published in News


Of course the patent might blue screen

Software king of the world, Microsoft thinks it might be able to cure cancer by treating it in the same way as a computer virus.

Mobile phone use does not cause cancer
Published in Mobiles


29-year study gives the all clear

It is looking incredibly unlikely that mobile phone use is giving anyone cancer.  A long term study into the incidence of brain cancer in the Australian population between 1982 to 2013 shows no marked increase.

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Refused treatment until it was too late

Wednesday, 01 June 2011 13:47

Phones cause cancer proof is a wake up call

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Aussie brain surgeon warns