A small office printer-sized device inside a pharmacy at Southampton General Hospital is about to begin doing something that pharmacists have long desired. Pills will be printed by it. actual ones. shaped, flavored, and dosed according to the individual in front of it. The National Institute for Health and Care Research awarded the funding earlier this year, and the researchers behind it describe it in the same way engineers describe a prototype that finally functions after years of near-failure. FieldHyper-personalized 3D-printed medicineFirst FDA-approved 3D-printed drugSpritam (levetiracetam), 2015Lead UK research siteUniversity Hospital SouthamptonFunding bodyNational Institute for Health and Care ResearchKey researchersDr…
Author: Taylor Lowery
Taylor Lowery
Taylor Lowery is a senior editor at glofiish.com, a technology writer, and a true circuit enthusiast. She works in the tech sector, so she does more than just cover it. Taylor works for a smartphone company during the day, which gives her a firsthand look at how gadgets are designed, manufactured, promoted, and ultimately placed in people's hands.Her writing is unique because of this insider viewpoint. Taylor makes the technical connections that other writers overlook, whether she's dissecting the silicon architecture of a new flagship chipset, analyzing the implications of a significant Android update for actual users, or tracking the effects of a new AI model announcement across the mobile industry.Her editorial focus covers every aspect of the current tech stack, including smartphone software and hardware, artificial intelligence (from large language models and generative tools to on-device inference), and the broader innovation trends influencing the direction of the consumer technology sector. She is especially passionate about the nexus of AI and mobile computing, which she feels is still in its most exciting early stages.
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Late on a Friday night, a certain silence descends upon a police control room. Phones are ringing. The sound of monitors. A dispatcher reaches for a cold cup of coffee somewhere in the corner. Additionally, a piece of software is increasingly detecting patterns in that same room that a human eye could miss in time, warning the streets when something is going to go wrong. It’s the kind of scene that would have seemed lifted from a movie script just ten years ago. That is no longer how it feels. Predictive AI is gradually making its way into the everyday…
When I first learned about the Florida Keys plan, I thought it sounded almost too tidy. After releasing hundreds of millions of male mosquitoes that were genetically modified to carry a self-destructing gene, the biting females would simply disappear in a few seasons. There are no clouds of insecticide floating over backyards. County health officials will no longer give standing-water sermons. Just a subtle biological adjustment made with surgical patience. However, nature rarely cooperates with neat plans, as anyone who has spent a steamy August evening on a Key Largo porch will attest. Project OverviewDetailsProject NameOX5034 Mosquito Release PilotLead CompanyOxitec…
A clip of a politician I had interviewed years prior was the first convincing audio deepfake I had ever heard. The rhythm was appropriate. It sounded just like him, with the pauses, the slight lift at the end of some words, and even the clearing of the throat. However, he had never mentioned any of it. And that is the main concern for anyone watching the upcoming election cycle. Topic ProfileDetailsSubjectAudio Deepfakes in ElectionsCategoryGenerative AI / Election SecurityPrimary ConcernVoice cloning used in disinformation campaignsTime Required to Clone a VoiceAs little as 15 seconds of audioNotable IncidentsBiden robocall (New Hampshire, Jan…
A significant security revelation usually results in a certain kind of silence, and this week’s silence over Cupertino feels heavier than most. Working with Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, iVerify has outlined what may be the first mass exploitation of iPhones that has been seen. This is not a targeted attack on a foreign minister or dissident, but rather something more widespread, messier, and difficult to ignore. The Coruna framework resembles a tool that started out inside the US government and then ended up somewhere it wasn’t supposed to. You can practically see how it took place. A beautifully written piece…
The way officials discuss phones has changed over the past year, and you can almost feel it. Smartphones used to be met with a kind of dejected shrug: “Yes, they listen, yes, they track, what can you do?” The tone has shifted. The dialogue has become more intense in Brussels, Washington, Delhi, and London. Your pocket phone is no longer viewed as a passive gadget that occasionally misbehaves. It is increasingly being viewed as something more akin to an unregulated intelligence organization that operates out of your jeans. Topic SnapshotDetailsSubjectAI integration inside consumer smartphonesPrimary concern flagged by governmentsMass data collection,…
Five years ago, there was no such thing as a newsroom silence. You can see it between the keyboards when you walk through one today, whether you’re in Buenos Aires or London. fewer calls. fewer disputes over a lede. Staring at a chat window, a junior reporter types a prompt in the same manner that an older colleague once asked a source a question. It’s peculiar because it’s not dramatic. Topic OverviewDetailsSubjectThe Rise of AI-Generated JournalismPrimary Research SourceReuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of OxfordCountries StudiedArgentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK, the United StatesMost Used AI ToolChatGPT (22%…
A senior European official made a statement that stuck with me a few months ago in a quiet corner of a defense conference in Brussels. He claimed that no longer creating policy was the most difficult aspect of his work. It was telling ministers that a Taiwanese chip factory was more important than a Russian missile silo. When he said that, he didn’t really laugh. In a nutshell, that is where global politics have strayed. Power was measured in tanks, trade routes, and treaties for the majority of the last century. Beneath all of this is now a more subdued…
You can learn most of what you need to know by taking the morning train through Silicon Valley. As the hills fade into the distance, young engineers with earbuds in and laptop screens illuminating their faces fix bugs. They leave DeepMind at Mountain View, Stanford at Palo Alto, and Nvidia at Santa Clara. Each station feeds a distinct node in a global supply chain that, three or four years ago, nearly no one outside the industry could identify. Everyone is aware now. or believes they do. The race to create the best AI chip has grown to be the most…
When you first see a functioning construction printer, it’s not the technology that catches your attention, but rather how relaxed the entire area seems. There are no workers yelling over saws. There were no flatbed deliveries waiting at the curb. The people watching it spend most of their time on their phones while a long mechanical arm glides back and forth, laying concrete in slow ribbons that stack into a wall. It has an odd serenity to it. The question that no one has fully addressed is whether that calm scales into a true solution to the housing crisis. The…