An Algorithm to Predict the Death of Terminally Ill Patients

A thoughtful, riveting piece from author and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee in the New York Times Magazine touches upon the current, general inaccuracies in predicting how much time remains in the lives of patients with terminal illnesses. Mukherjee, however, goes into explaining a “dying algorithm” that might just be able to help doctors with palliative care. Plugging a hospital’s medical records for 160,000 deceased patients into …

Amazon Patent’s Mirror for Virtually Trying on Clothes

Utilizing a camera scanning system, displays and projectors, Amazon’s patent for a blended-reality mirror describes an item that could (if produced) allow users to try on clothes virtually. The device would be part reflective and part transmissive, wherein the users face and eyes are recognized and reflected back, though affixed to a transmitted body model—based upon a scan—dressed in virtual clothes. Of course, a hindrance …

Francis and the Lights: Morning

At the tail end of 2017, Francis and the Lights dropped the surprise album Just for Us, and its lead track “Morning” sets off a wondrous soundscape of crooning, emotion-powered lyrics and time-defying synths. No one quite makes music like Francis Starlite and the whole album acts as a testament to this.