Hospitals are adopting AI assistants for patient care and Microsoft is rolling out medical imaging models, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calls for vigilant monitoring of these rapidly evolving tools. The push toward AI integration promises to ease healthcare worker burnout and...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Hearing Aid Feature (HAF), an over-the-counter (OTC) software that turns Apple AirPods Pro into a hearing aid for those with mild to moderate hearing loss. The HAF is the first FDA-authorized over-the-counter hearing aid software....
The global artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is undergoing significant shifts as regulators grapple with the technology’s rapid advancements. While the U.S. and Europe are considering tightening AI regulations, Argentina President Javier Milei is positioning his country as a potential haven for tech investments. Meanwhile, the...
Every year, for the last 16 years, economists have come to Toulouse for the Digital Economics Conference to present cutting-edge research on just about everything digital. For those who don’t know Toulouse, or only that it is the headquarters of Airbus, the La Ville Rose is a...
July 14, 2022
Catapulted from relative obscurity to mainstream status by COVID-19, telemedicine has obvious limitations in treating disease, but the emerging world of digital therapeutics is changing that. This nascent field is the next step for telemedicine, in which software and apps running on consumer electronics like smartphones, tablets and virtual reality headsets can be ePrescribed, delivered […]
August 22, 2019
The growing CBD industry offers one of the best retail and payments stories in the second half of 2019 — and offers lessons for merchants seeking to keep on the...
May 21, 2019
A multi-part, high-stakes race is underway in a fast-growing part of online and brick-and-mortar retail — a race to stay ahead of political backlash and regulation, a race that also...
March 21, 2019
It might not have been inevitable, perhaps, but it was certainly expected: a regulatory backlash concerning the booming trade (both online and in brick-and-mortar stores) of eCigarettes, with their different...
February 28, 2020
The coronavirus has wide-reaching effects on eCommerce, technology, medicine, business travel and the economy. Here are the latest updates on its impacts around the world. Shares of Wayfair fell as much as 26 percent on Friday (Feb.28), and the stock had lost 22 percent already this year, Bloomberg reported. The furniture eCommerce retailer reportedly relies […]
July 23, 2019
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has written a letter to Curaleaf regarding its alleged illegal selling of CBD products and its use of “unsubstantiated claims” about CBD being able...
June 18, 2019
Beauty company Mink has designed a 3D printer that will print makeup from any image, according to a release by the company. The Mink printer is portable, weighing about 2...
June 14, 2019
IBM, KPMG, Merck, and Walmart announced that they have been selected by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a pilot program that addresses requirements to identify, track...
