Author: Connected World

Counterfeit drugs are running rampant around the world. Case in point: More than one million people die each year from counterfeit drugs—and more than 200,000 people die each year from counterfeit anti-allergy drugs alone. Some of the most common counterfeit drugs include antibiotics, HIV/AIDS and cancer medication, antidepressants, drugs to treat erectile dysfunction, weight-loss supplements, and anti-malaria medication. AI (artificial intelligence) can help. As one example, an AI-based counterfeit detector comes from Cypheme. Found in OpenAI’s GPTStore, this tech can allow consumers to verify the authenticity of health products using a smartphone. Here’s how it works. The deep tracing tech…

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Each year, 30-40% of elderly people living at home suffer falls—and this goes up to 50% among residents of nursing homes. In the United States, this is more than 15 million falls by the elderly each year. This is a real public health problem, since 10% of victims stay on the ground for more than an hour—a fatal lapse of time in some cases. Enter Zoe Care, unveiled at CES earlier this month. Zoe Fall’s AI (artificial intelligence) analyses the variation of radio waves to identify a person’s movements. In case of a fall, an alert is sent automatically to…

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