It’s been over two months since Dr. Marty Makary stepped down from his post as FDA commissioner, and there has yet to be visible progress toward naming his permanent successor. The gap in leadership is sparking concerns among industry watchdogs that pharma could lack clear guidance on federal priorities for weeks or months to come….
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This tutorial builds a highlight-cutting pipeline for kids’ soccer footage: two RF-DETR models trained in the Roboflow UI (a player/ball/goal detector and a jersey digit detector) run inside a Roboflow Workflow with BoT-SORT tracking, and a local Python pipeline turns those detections into jersey numbers, a single tracked kid, detected goals, and a finished highlight…
OpenAI is rolling out “Health in ChatGPT” to U.S. users aged 18 and older after unveiling and testing the feature since January. Paying for a subscription could literally save your life. Users can connect Apple Health, medical records, and wellness apps to review lab results, prepare for doctor’s appointments, and analyze sleep or activity data….
NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine is an application framework for achieving optimal ray tracing performance on the GPU. Applications using OptiX can fail in ways that are difficult to diagnose: an invalid API argument, a black frame, or a GPU-side bug buried under thousands of concurrent threads. Debugging facilities in the NVIDIA OptiX Toolkit (OTK)…
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Getty Images Summary: Humanoid robot technologies are advancing fast, but the pace of adoption may move less predictably. Each use case demands distinct technology to fulfill the robot’s specialized role. In geographic markets where humanoid adoption is most viable, demand will inevitably be determined by the unpredictable human response to this new tech. “The ChatGPT…
on social media about a passenger bumped from an airplane because of overbooking. If you’re a frequent flyer, you may come across a similar situation. If you’re unlucky enough, it might even be you. This might sound like a mistake but I can assure you it isn’t. We live in a world where such operational…
Before a healthcare robot can be useful in the real world, it has to learn how the physical world pushes back. Anatomy varies. Instruments bend, press, slip and interact with tissue. Imaging can be noisy or incomplete. And the rare, edge scenarios developers most need to understand don’t appear on schedule. That creates one of…
AI Teammates are agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock, and few engineering organizations run them in production at the scale that monday.com does. Nine in ten Builders use AI coding tools every month, up from roughly half a year ago. Per-engineer PR throughput is up by more than half. Every figure in this post comes from…