Windows 10’s October 2018 major update, a.k.a. version 1809, is turning out to be quite the nightmare, most especially for users. It was rolled out early lost month with a nefarious file-deleting bug that allegedly affected only a small number of users. Microsoft has since pulled out the update and re-released it but the nightmare is far from over. The … Continue reading
Bah. Who needs teleporting, creepy-looking robot deliverymen when you can just put something on the internet? Much quicker for open threads to talk about Doctor Who, that!
Google’s Life Sciences division unveiled a project it was working on to measure blood glucose levels back in 2014. It developed a smart contact lens which was supposed to provide a non-invasive way of obtaining the blood’s sugar levels. The division later came Verily, a company under Google’s parent Alphabet, Inc. It has now announced that work on the smart contact lens for blood glucose monitoring has been halted.
They had initially teamed up with Alcon, the eye care subsidiary of pharma giant Novartis, to develop the contact lens into a commercial product. The team says that while this evolved into a versatile electronics platform that supports actions like sensing and transmitting data on the eye, there just isn’t enough consistency in the readings.
Many clinical study sessions were conducted with individual users and hundreds of thousands of biological data points were collected from on-eye readings. The tests revealed that there was “insufficient consistency in our measurements of the correlation between tear glucose and blood glucose concentrations to support the requirements of a medical device.”
One major challenge was to obtain reliable tear glucose readings in the complex on-eye environment. The team found that interference from biomolecules in tears preventing them from obtaining accurate glucose readings from the small quantities of glucose in the tear film.
It has thus been decided along with Alcon to put work on the project on hold. They will continue working on the smart accommodating contact lens and smart intraocular lens projects but the aim will no longer be to use it as a non invasive method of obtaining blood glucose readings.
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Windows 10’s October 2018 major update, a.k.a. version 1809, is turning out to be quite the nightmare, most especially for users. It was rolled out early lost month with a nefarious file-deleting bug that allegedly affected only a small number of users. Microsoft has since pulled out the update and re-released it but the nightmare is far from over. The … Continue reading
This year’s Samsung flagships have really taken colors to heart. The Galaxy S9, S9+, and Galaxy Note 9 have gone beyond the usual drab hues and embraced purples and blues and browns. That said, some do actually prefer their phones to be less conspicuous in terms of appearance but also find black or gray to be too dull. If the … Continue reading
Well, here’s the good news: After last week’s troubling, backpedaling, post-Rick, post-timeskip “premiere,” The Walking Dead regained some of its footing tonight to produce a perfectly fine, if not particularly memorable episode. The bad news is that something’s wrong with Michonne, and it’s kind of a bummer.
If you use the Windows 10 Mail app just because you don’t want to put up with ads that you see from your email provider online, they might eventually follow you to the app as well. According to reports, Microsoft briefly ran a test in which it served advertisements within the Windows 10 mail app.
Aggiornamenti Lumia reports that the beta version of the Windows 10 Mail app did place ads at the very top of the inbox. This persisted for a few days before Microsoft removed the ads. The company says that it was an experiment.
The ads were apparently served to non-Office 365 subscribers who were using the Mail app in Windows 10 to access their email. A FAQ page on Microsoft’s support website mentions that it was running a pilot program to test ads in Mail. The test was conducted in Canada, Australia, India, and Brazil.
It also mentioned that the ads were served on Windows Home and Windows Pro but not Windows Enterprise or Windows EDU. They were shown to non-work account holders that were set up through Mail, even third-party accounts such as Gmail and Yahoo. The page has been archived but Microsoft has removed it from its website.
Microsoft’s head of communications Frank Shaw later tweeted that the ads inside Mail were “an experimental feature that was never intended to be tested broadly” and that they have now been turned off completely. Whether or not the company will decide to bring them back in the future remains to be seen. One thing’s clear, though, it has certainly thought about doing so.
Windows 10 Mail App Could Get Ads In The Future , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
“The nine of us are now a family and we’re a family with each of us our own burdens,” she told CNN’s David Axelrod.
With all that’s happening in the smartphone market these days, it’s almost too easy to forget that HTC still makes smartphones. Even Sony hits headlines more than the Taiwanese company, at least in mobile news (HTC’s name always comes up in VR, though). Aside from the very niche HTC Exodus blockchain phone, the last notable smartphone the company put out … Continue reading
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