US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer
As cancer treatments have advanced and outcomes have improved, one aspect of cancer care in the US has consistently worsened over the last decade: the wait time for surgery.…
According to a study in JAMA Surgery, patients with one of six types o…
Timeliness is considered a core metric of healthcare quality, and dela…
Apple and Epic argue over how much Apple should get from purchases made outside the App Store
In a new filing in its long-running legal dispute with Epic Games, Apple has proposed a structure that would allow it to collect fees on digital purchases made via external links that don't use the company's in-app purchase system.…
Epic has already responded, saying that Apple's request is "far outsid…
Right now, Apple cannot take a commission on external purchases after …
Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot
Mico is headed to Learn Live.| Image: Microsoft Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode.…
In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn…
Mico launched in Copilot's voice mode last October, with Microsoft AI …
‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today - where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android.…
It's been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided that Goo…
Donato ordered Google to carry rival Android app stores inside its own…
Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works
The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse.…
But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, raisi…
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500-Words—and Barely Says Anything
AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley.
Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
