It’s time for another news in brief. As always there has been plenty happening in the health tech community – join us as we take a look at some of the digital stories from across the NHS over the past days. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals uses new Gamma Knife technology Patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS […]
Vietnamese healthcare AI developer VinBrain has started a new partnership with Stanford University to enhance AI medical imaging. Based on their latest data use agreement, Stanford will initially provide VinBrain access to about 240,000 anonymised medical images and reports to train and test the AI on its DrAid clinical decision support platform while also helping […]
South Korea clears first local insomnia DTx The South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has given its first market approval for a digital therapeutic device for treating insomnia, according to a news report. The mobile-based medical device-as-a-software called Somzz by Aimmed delivers a CBT programme that helps increase sleep duration. India OKs health monitoring smartwatch […]
Tesla has released a blog post defending itself against allegations that it fired employees at Gigafactory New York over a push to unionize. As we reported earlier this week, workers doing Autopilot data annotation at Gigafactory New York announced their intent to unionize. Yesterday, the organizers behind the unionization effort filed a complaint with the […]
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This week, Nissan Motor and Kotohira Town announced a new agreement to utilize electric vehicles, including the Nissan LEAF, as “driving storage batteries” to power evacuation centers in the event a natural disaster strikes Japan. Japan’s vulnerability to natural disasters It’s no secret that Japan is particularly vulnerable to natural disasters. The island nation lying […]
E-commerce giant Amazon is funding the world’s first commercial-scale offshore wind seaweed farm that will sit between turbines – and this project has the potential to achieve a lot of great things. Offshore wind seaweed farm The North Sea Farm 1 project, off the Netherlands coast, will consist of a a 10-hectare (25-acre) seaweed farm […]
Glen Tibbitts, United Church Homes’ Corporate Director of IT and HIPAA Security Officer, says he’s noticed a “mindset shift” as residents’ expectations change. Photography by Leonardo Carrizo “Otherwise, you’ll see people with a device that’s still in the box,” he says. “People will tend to engage with technology if they feel they have agency in […]
Tesla is attempting to get owners of older Model S and Model X vehicles with unlimited Supercharging to upgrade to a new car with an enticing new offer. While Model 3 and Model Y sales are going through the roof, the more expensive Model S and Model X are a little more difficult to move. […]
All new cars sold in New Jersey will have to be zero emissions from 2035, Governor Phil Murphy (D-NJ) announced yesterday. All cars zero emission by 2035 As Electrek previously reported, New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection called for a gas car sales ban by 2035 in October 2020. Murphy’s new executive orders are the next step. […]
