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If your heart stops, this smartwatch-AI can call for help


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00:47 A ‘smart’ way to quickly detect cardiac arrest

Google researchers have developed an AI for a smartwatch that will call for help if its wearer is having a cardiac arrest. Trained, in part, on data gained when patients had their hearts deliberately stopped during a medical procedure, the team’s machine learning algorithm can automatically detect the telltale signs of cardiac arrest. The team think this system could save lives, although more testing is required. "Our hope is that as these capabilities expand it provides a new way to keep people safer,” says Jake Sunshine, one of the researchers behind the study.


Research Article: Shah et al.


09:15 Research Highlights

Evidence that a low dose of yellow fever vaccine might be enough to provide lasting immunity, and the odd umbrella-shaped tree fossil that suggests that early plants may have been more complex than previously thought.


Research Article: Kimathi et al.

Research Article: Gastaldo et al.


11:10 Briefing Chat

Microsoft’s new AI that helps create video game ‘worlds’, and why dogs blink more when other dogs do the same.


Nature: Microsoft builds AI that creates ‘impressive’ video-game worlds

Science: Dogs, like people, may use blinking to bond


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