Google’s Play Store on the web is dated, to put it mildly — the big sidebar and card-like listings wouldn’t look out of place on a phone running Android Lollipop. The company appears ready to drag its portal into the modern era, though. Android Police and a tipster said they’ve […]
Month: November 2021
Apple Podcasts app ratings flip after the company starts prompting users
Apple’s decision to allow ratings for its own apps is producing… mixed results. As developer Kosta Eleftheriou and The Verge have noticed, the official Podcasts app has flipped from an abysmal 1.8-star rating to over 4.8 in the space of just a few weeks thanks to a surge of reviews. […]
NYC bill bans AI recruiting tools that fail bias checks
New York City could soon reduce the chances of AI bias in the job market. The Associated Press notes the city’s council has passed a bill barring AI hiring systems that don’t pass yearly audits checking for race- or gender-based discrimination. Developers would also need greater transparency (including disclosures of […]
Second wave of kids with MIS-C had more severe illness than first wave, according to new Children’s National Hospital study
November 12, 2021 When comparing the first and second wave of patients diagnosed with multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), the second wave patients had more severe illness, according to a new prospective cohort study of 106 patients at Children’s National Hospital […]
Penicillin slows devastating impacts of rheumatic heart disease in children from Uganda
New findings address widely eradicated cardiovascular disease that continues to plague developing nations November 15, 2021 Penicillin, a widely available and affordable antibiotic, may be one key to turning the tide on the deadly impacts of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) for children in […]
How grandmothers’ brains react to the sight of their grandchildren — ScienceDaily
Many people lucky enough to have grown up with doting grandmothers know that they can burnish a child’s development in unique and valuable ways. Now, for the first time, scientists have scanned grandmothers’ brains while they’re viewing photos of their young grandchildren — providing a neural snapshot of this special, […]
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Personalized T cell immunotherapy for pediatric brain tumors is one step closer to becoming a reality
Researchers successfully merged two scientific fields that led to a novel multi-targeted T cell immunotherapy November 18, 2021 Children’s National Hospital experts developed a new approach that discovered unique proteins in an individual tumor’s cells, which then helped scientists generate personalized T cells […]
Study suggests this area of the visual cortex emerges much earlier in development than previously thought. — ScienceDaily
Within the visual cortex of the adult brain, a small region is specialized to respond to faces, while nearby regions show strong preferences for bodies or for scenes such as landscapes. Neuroscientists have long hypothesized that it takes many years of visual experience for these areas to develop in children. […]
As we develop, the brain connects lessons learned differently — ScienceDaily
A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences — finding hidden connections between different experiences — changes dramatically as we age. The study’s findings might one day lead to personalized learning strategies based on a person’s cognitive and […]