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LG opened CES 2026 by outlining its vision to reduce the physical effort and mental burden of life

Medical issue forces mission curtailment and leaves station short-handed NASA is bringing the Crew-11 astronauts back to Earth early after one encountered a medical issue that could not be dealt with aboard the orbiting outpost.

NASA has decided to bring the Crew-11 astronauts home a month earlier than originally planned due to a medical concern with one of them

The Apple Watch Series 11 is on sale for the lowest price we've ever seen

ChatGPT was vulnerable to prompt injection, but OpenAI apparently fixed it

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk persuaded a judge on Wednesday to allow a jury trial on his allegations that ChatGPT maker OpenAI violated its founding mission in its high-profile restructuring to a for-profit entity

Illinois Department of Human Services disclosed that a misconfigured internal mapping website exposed sensitive personal data for more than 700,000 Illinois residents for over four years, from April 2021 to September 2025

While wave upon wave of smartglasses and face-based wearables crash on the shores of CES, traditional glasses really havent changed much over the hundreds of years weve been using them

It's for less consequential health-related matters, where being wrong won't kill customers Could a bot take the place of your doctor? According to OpenAI, which launched ChatGPT Health this week, an LLM should be available to answer your questions and even examine your health records

Last year Razer showed off Project Ava as a digital assistant that lived inside your computer to help adjust settings or provide gaming tips

The usual suspects always show up at CES new TVs, laptops, chips, robots and the like

CES has no shortage of new health tech there are even multiple Whoop-style fitness trackers

Have you ever wanted to save approximately three seconds and two mouse clicks when shopping online? Microsoft has something special just for you

New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.

The firm says its chatbot sees health and wellbeing questions from 230 million people every week.

Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.

CES 2026s second day was all about hands on time with new tech

ChatGPT Health is a new space for medical questions and it works with your health records and apps, but OpenAI isnt claiming it can replace your doctor

Happy Groundhog Day! Security researchers at Radware say they've identified several vulnerabilities in OpenAI's ChatGPT service that allow the exfiltration of personal information.

OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Health, which is a special place within ChatGPT where you can connect your Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Function, Weight Watchers, AllTrails, Instacart, and Peloton accounts and ask questions about your health

Health tech gadgets displayed at the annual CES trade show make a lot of promises

According to OpenAI , millions of people use ChatGPT to discuss their health concerns. We aren't surprised, but we just learned that the company has introduced ChatGPT Health for users to be informed, prepared, and confident when navigating their health

OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Health, a sandboxed health-focused mode that lets users connect medical records and wellness apps for more personalized guidance

ChatGPT Health is not intended for diagnosis and treatment, OpenAI said.

Jan 7 - OpenAI on Wednesday launched a ChatGPT Health tab that answers health-related questions and lets users upload medical records and connect wellness apps such as Apple Health and MyFitnessPal

ChatGPT's new health feature will help you analyze your wellness data.

OpenAI is launching a new facet for its AI chatbot called ChatGPT Health

An anonymous reader shares a report: Ever since the federal government began issuing the Dietary Guidelines in 1980, it has told Americans to limit themselves to one or two standard alcoholic drinks a day

Ultrahuman smart rings currently cant be sold in the US

Samsung says AI data center-fueled RAM scarcity could raise the company's prices

Following initial blowback to the plan, insiders say OpenAI plans to test ads directly in ChatGPT this year.

Dreame Technology, the China-based smart home appliance brand, has entered the wearables market with the introduction of its first AI-powered smart and health rings

Vision tests are an important part of life, but they arent always the most convenient things to work into your schedule

Throne has rocked up to CES 2026 to show off its forthcoming toilet computer which uses computer vision to study your poop

If you're looking to get in shape in the new year, a wearable that tracks your daily activity and workouts can help with that

The 29-year-old woman who created the "MyBoyfriendIsAI" community on Reddit isn't dating (or sexting) her AI boyfriend anymore

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, revealed a deceptively simple workflow that uses parallel AI agents, verification loops, and shared memory to let one developer operate with the output of an entire engineering team

If the world didn't already have one too many digital assistants, Lenovo is adding another one to the pile

sinij shares a news release from the Utah Department of Commerce: The state of Utah, through the Utah Department of Commerce's Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy, today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Doctronic, the AI-native health platform, to give patients with chronic conditions a faster, automated way to renew medications

OpenAI's loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats.

AI could lead to productivity, unemployment, and health gaps we should focus on sustainable human-AI collaboration

Eric Migicovsky has been thinking a lot about friction

As soon as I held the Pebble Round 2 in my hand, I suddenly realized what Id been missing for the better part of a decade

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed S4505, a law that requires websites to display warnings claiming that features like algorithmic feeds, push notifications, infinite scroll, like counts, and autoplay cause addiction -- despite, as TechDirt argues, the absence of scientific consensus supporting such claims

Im no psychologist, but I get a sense Segway turned up to CES 2026 with something to prove after last year

OpenAI's latest report states that 40 million people use ChatGPT for health-related questions every day

Ready, aim, firethe latest health trackers use sensors to check your urine for proper hydration, ketone levels, and possible kidney stones.

Workers face new mental health pressures as they shift from doing tasks to babysitting agentic AI A report on occupational health warns that AI adoption may paradoxically increase workplace burdens rather than reduce them

Jan 5 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su showed off a number of the company's AI chips on Monday at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, including its advanced MI455 AI processors, which are components in the data center server racks that the company is selling to firms like ChatGPT maker OpenAI

French startup NAOX is at CES with a groundbreaking wearable EEG for clinics and research, but thats not what were interested in today

Urinalysis company Vivoo has rocked up at CES 2026 with two new products designed to keep an eye on your health

Withings, the French company that pioneered the category of WiFi bathroom scales, unveiled a new top-of-the-line model that monitors signs of hypertension, the latest in a wave of consumer health gadgets attempting to help manage high blood pressure

Smartglasses company Rokid has introduced new display-free AI glasses at CES 2026

Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+ chatbot now has its very own home on the web at alexa.com

A viral Reddit "whistleblower" post accusing a major food delivery app of systemic exploitation is "most likely AI-generated," reports the Verge

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amazon's AI-powered overhaul of its digital assistant, now known as Alexa+, is coming to the web

The changes are modeled after a small country with universal health care.

One man's failing healthcare system is another man's opportunity About sixty percent of American adults have turned to AI like ChatGPT for health or healthcare in the past three months

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence since OpenAI kickstarted the AI boom with ChatGPT's launch in 2022 has sparked concerns about safety and job security.

Tamagotchi ripoffs are alive and well at CES 2026 , and SoildTech's spin on the idea is to stick a virtual pet in the dirt to help you stop killing your plants

The company launched Alexa+ last February and it remains in early access

Garmin's Health Status feature has one small setback, but this new upgrade could allow you to keep tabs on health trends over longer time periods

The Apple Watch Series 11 is on sale for the lowest price we've ever seen

Withings Body Scan 2 is a new smart scale that is packed with AI and advanced health-measuring tools

Stack Overflow's monthly question volume has collapsed to about 300 -- levels not seen since the site launched in 2009, according to data from the Stack Overflow Data Explorer that tracks the platform's activity over its sixteen-year history

xAI has launched Business and Enterprise tiers for Grok with like-for-like pricing, but ChatGPT is still cheaper for casual users

Government 'incredibly' concerned about breach potentially affecting more than 100,000 patients New Zealand health minister Simeon Brown has ordered a review into the cyberattack at ManageMyHealth, which threatens the data of hundreds of thousands of Kiwis.

Over the last ten or so years , L'Oral has brought a taste of beauty tech to the masses at CES 2026

Back in 2023, Withings launched Body Scan, a super-premium scale with the sort of tech found in a high-end gym or low-end clinic

There's a good chance you spend more time talking to your phone's virtual assistant, or dictating text with your voice, instead of actually calling people these days

Reddit "has overtaken TikTok as Britain's fourth most-visited social media service," reports the Guardian: The platform has undergone huge growth over the last two years, with an 88% increase in the proportion of UK internet users it reaches

Remember how California's government negotiated a 2024 deal where Google contributed millions to California's local newsrooms to offset advertisers moving to the search engine? "A year after it was cemented and billed as a model that could succeed where entire countries and continents had fallen short the agreement is tangled in budget cuts, bureaucratic infighting and unresolved questions about who controls the money," reports Politico, "leaving journalists empty-handed and casting doubt on whether the lofty experiment will ever live up to its promise." The program, initially framed as a nearly $250 million commitment over five years, has secured just $20 million in new money for journalists in its first year, with no guarantee the funding will continue

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AI startups now outnumber all publicly traded U.S