{"source":"Technology","paragraphs":["\u003cp\u003eThe algorithm is used by health

care providers to screen patients for \"high-risk care management\" intervention.

Under this system, patients who have especially complex medical needs are
automatically flagged by the algorithm. Once selected, they may receive additional
care resources, like more attention from doctors. As the researchers note, the
system is widely used around the United States, and for good reason. Extra benefits
like dedicated nurses and more primary care appointments are costly for health care
providers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApple has three current phones to choose
from, each with different characteristics and prices. The one that most people
should buy is actually the least expensive of the three: the iPhone 11. Apple has
three current phones to choose from, each with different characteristics and
prices. The one that most people should buy is actually the least expensive of the
three: the iPhone 11.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the time of Giannandrea’s
hiring, the move was considered an admission from Apple that its current AI efforts
were lackluster and needing revamping, evidenced by Siri falling far behind Google
Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa in sophistication and industry adoption. Despite Siri
living inside every iPhone and arriving on the scene before any other major voice
assistant, Amazon and Google have led the race in consumer AI by incorporating
their respective assistants into smart home products, a sector where Apple has
lagged due to its stricter stances on user privacy and its delayed entrance to the
smart speaker market.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWearing face masks that
adequately cover the mouth and nose causes the error rate of some of the most
widely used facial recognition algorithms to spike to between 5 percent and 50
percent, a study by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
has found. Black masks were more likely to cause errors than blue masks, and the
more of the nose covered by the mask, the harder the algorithms found it to
identify the face.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApple said its profit increased to
$11.52 billion in its most recent quarter, up nearly a third from the same period a
year earlier, showing that the company’s enormous business selling iPhones and
other gadgets continues to breeze along. The strong results beat Wall Street
estimates, sending the company’s shares about 4 percent higher on Wednesday to a
new record and for a market value of more than $950
billion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlphabet’s stock rose 3.5 percent in after-
hours trading, and some analysts recommended the company’s shares. With the
regulatory issue settled, they said, Google could get back to focusing on selling
ads across the internet.\"It’s like a delivery company having to pay for a parking
ticket,\" Brian Wieser, a Pivotal Research analyst, said of the penalty, which
Alphabet accounted for in the second quarter. \"It’s not a meaningful fine in the
context of the size of this company.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChhattisgarh’s
$71 million free-phone program - known by the acronym SKY after its name in Hindi -
is supposed to bridge the digital divide in this state of 26 million people, which
is covered by large patches of forest and counts 7,000 villages that do not even
have a wireless data signal. The plan is to add hundreds of cellphone towers and
give a basic smartphone to every college student and one woman in every household
to connect more families to the internet and help fulfill the central government’s
goal of a \"Digital India.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe same evolution took
place with Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud computing subsidiary. It
launched in 2006 as a \"data storage service,\" but it has since become
indispensable to modern tech companies — as necessary as paper clips once were but
a damn sight more profitable. So many companies rely on Amazon’s services that when
the industry grows, AWS does, too. Last year, AWS alone made more money than
McDonald’s. AWS is quite possibly the future of Amazon, which explains why it was
everywhere at re:MARS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs a result, he said,
algorithms have magnified our worst tendencies and \"rogue actors and even
governments\" have used our data against us \"to deepen divisions, incite violence
and even undermine our shared sense of what is true and what is false.\" In one
piercing portion, Mr. Cook criticized how companies like Facebook and Google —
while taking care not to mention them by name — deliver personalized news feeds
that lead to so-called filter bubbles and confirmation
bias.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government
unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on
July 19. Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a
call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and
the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not
covered.\u003c/p\u003e"]}