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Thermal scanners are the latest technology being deployed to detect the coronavirus. But they don’t really work.

The temperature-measuring scanners being installed rapidly across the U.S. were never meant for medical use, and industry veterans say they’re seeing “a lot of folks popping up in the marketplace making claims that, frankly, the science can’t support.” Thermal scanners are the latest technology being deployed to detect the coronavirus. But they don’t really work.

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Spotify announces Group Sessions in beta, letting multiple Premium users control a listening session (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

Ashley Carman / The Verge: Spotify announces Group Sessions in beta, letting multiple Premium users control a listening session  —  Share DJ time with your quarantine buddies  —  Spotify is giving premium users a new feature that’ll allow them to share DJ duties with anyone in their immediate vicinity. Spotify announces Group Sessions in beta,

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Study of websites from the top 1,000 US businesses shows colors, layouts, and AI-generated attributes have became more similar between 2010 and 2016 (Sam Goree/The Conversation)

Sam Goree / The Conversation: Study of websites from the top 1,000 US businesses shows colors, layouts, and AI-generated attributes have became more similar between 2010 and 2016  —  Over the past few years, articles and blog posts have started to ask some version of the same question: “Why are all websites starting to look

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Intel partners with Penn Medicine and 29 international medical centers to develop a brain tumor classifier by training AI models using federated learning (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Intel partners with Penn Medicine and 29 international medical centers to develop a brain tumor classifier by training AI models using federated learning  —  To coincide with Brain Tumor Awareness Month, Intel today announced the details of a National Institutes of Health-funded program … Intel partners with Penn Medicine and 29

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Six months after the glitzy launch of Facebook News, sources at seven publishers say they have seen little impact as the company focuses on other things (Max Willens/Digiday)

{$inline_image} Max Willens / Digiday: Six months after the glitzy launch of Facebook News, sources at seven publishers say they have seen little impact as the company focuses on other things  —  Publishers who are used to seeing Facebook launch a new product with much fanfare, then have momentum fizzle, are starting to get a

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