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The AI That Can Predict When You'll Die

The new 16-inch MacBook pro might actually have a keyboard that works! Google wants you to bank with them. The Brave browser comes out of beta. And there’s an AI that can predict if you’ll die in the next year… but doctors don’t know how it does it.

Brian McCullough

Brian McCullough is the co-founder of Ride Home Media and host of The Techmeme Ride Home. He founded ResumeWriters.com and is the author of How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone.

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Brian McCullough

Nov 13, 2019

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APPLE’S 16-INCH MACBOOK PRO IS HERE AND IT HAS A GOOD KEYBOARD (The Verge)
16-Inch MacBook Pro First Impressions: Great Keyboard, Outstanding Speakers (Daring Fireball)
Next in Google’s Quest for Consumer Dominance: Banking (WSJ)
Brave 1.0 launches, bringing the privacy-first browser out of beta (The Verge)
DoorDash Picks Up Another $100 Million at Nearly $13 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
Border officials can’t have ‘boundless’ access to search devices, court rules (The Verge)
AI can predict if you'll die soon - but we've no idea how it works (New Scientist)