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A survey of doctors released Wednesday showed how pervasive medical falsehoods have become — not only online, but also within the walls of medical exam rooms where doctors and patients talk.The survey from the Physicians Foundation, a nonprofit research group, found that 61% of doctors said they encountered patients influenced by misinformation or disinformation a moderate amount or a great deal of the time over the past year.An overwhelming majority of physicians, 86%, said the incidence of such falsehoods among patients had increased over the past five years, a period that includes most of the Covid pandemic, with 50% saying…

A new wave of flippable and foldable phones is shaking up the US smartphone market, long dominated by Apple’s iPhone.The iPhone remains king, but flip phones are spurring innovation and gaining momentum with consumers.”There is quite a bit of buzz around this,” Forrester analyst Dipanjan Chatterjee told Business Insider. Still, he said foldables remain niche, representing 1% to 2% of the smartphone market.Companies including Samsung, Motorola, and Google have ventured into foldable or flippable smartphones — Samsung with the Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip, Motorola with its Razr flip phones, and Google with its Pixel Fold models.In July,…

No, AI doesn’t mean you don’t have to learn to code, at least according to one OpenAI researcher.Szymon Sidor recently sounded off on why, even in a world with ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI tools, it’s still good for current high school students to learn basic coding.”You should absolutely learn to code,” Sidor said during episode of the company’s podcast from August. “One skill that is at a premium and will continue to be at a premium is having really structured intellect that can break down complicated problems into pieces.”Sidor, who has worked at OpenAI for over eight years, said…

Being overweight or obese has long been linked to a greater risk of developing or dying from breast cancer. New research suggests a reason: Certain breast cancer tumors may feed on neighboring fat cells.The findings may help scientists find ways to treat triple-negative breast cancer, which is notoriously aggressive and has lower survival rates. Moreover, the results may apply to any cancer that uses fat as an energy source, according to the report, published Wednesday in Nature Communications.Triple-negative accounts for about 15% of all breast cancers. It tends to be more common in Black women and women under 40 and…

The clock is ticking until Cadillac joins the Formula 1 grid. Literally.“On the wall of every office that we have is a countdown clock,” team principal Graeme Lowdon told The Associated Press in a recent interview. “It’s counting down to two things.”One is the first “fire-up” of the car with its engine, and then the other is free practice at Cadillac’s first official F1 session in Melbourne, Australia in March next year.It will be the start of a new mission for General Motors, and the end of a process to join F1 which included years of negotiations, a change of…

By Charlie Devereux and Michael Francis GoreMADRID (Reuters) -As Madrid sweltered at the peak of one of Spain’s longest-ever heatwaves, the temperature on a street in one of its poorest neighbourhoods – Puente de Vallecas – measured 41.4 degrees Celsius (106.5 Fahrenheit) by early afternoon.A few hundred metres down the street it was 38.6 C.The difference? One section of the street was treeless while the other was shaded by a row of leafy mulberries.According to scientific studies, trees can play a key role in mitigating the often-deadly effects of heatwaves and as temperatures in Spain rise as a result of…

Hinge is using AI to help you find better dates, but the company doesn’t want you dating bots.”I don’t think that an AI chatbot should be your friend or certainly not your boyfriend or girlfriend,” Hinge CEO Justin McLeod said in an episode of the “Rapid Response” podcast published on Tuesday.In contrast, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a May podcast that the average American now has fewer than three close friends and that digital chatbots could help cure this “loneliness epidemic.”Hinge is owned by Match Group, which also operates dating apps like Tinder and OKCupid. In 2018, Match acquired…

Lovable CEO Anton Osika says he isn’t bothered by Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive AI hiring spree at Meta.In an interview that aired Monday, Osika told podcaster Harry Stebbings that his vibe-coding startup was looking for a “very different type of talent” than Meta.”For Zuck, it’s like there’s these 10 people that know everything about how to train foundation models and he’s paying more for that knowledge than for these people,” Osika told Stebbings.But that sort of talent isn’t what Lovable is looking for, Osika said.”They wouldn’t perform as well as the engineers in my team, doing what we are doing. So…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Alice Nekesa did not know she was infected with malaria-causing parasites until it was too late. She was in the fourth month of pregnancy last year when she started bleeding, a miscarriage later attributed to untreated malaria in her.The Ugandan farmer said recently that she regretted the loss of what would have been her second child “because I didn’t discover malaria and treat it early.”Variations of such cases are commonly reported by Ugandan health workers who witness stillbirths or feverish babies that die within days from undiagnosed malaria. The deaths are part of a wider death…

The death toll in New York City’s Legionnaires’ disease outbreak has risen to five with more than 100 cases confirmed across five ZIP codes in Central Harlem, local health officials announced.Since the outbreak began on July 25, the New York City Health Department has reported 108 cases of Legionnaires’ disease in Central Harlem — a historically Black neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. The latest death was reported on Aug. 18 after health officials concluded that a person with the disease who died before mid-August was associated with the Central Harlem cluster.”Based on epidemiological evidence, remediation efforts have been effective as new cases…