⚡️ Phone gauges intoxication through VOICE

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A new Stanford study found smartphones can potentially detect intoxication with 98% accuracy by monitoring changes in speech patterns.

Will smart devices soon have their own voice-detecting breathalyzers? Let’s dive in…

In today’s tech rundown:

• Study: Your voice could reveal how drunk you are

• New composite stimulates bone regrowth, prevents bacteria

• 10 New products

• 7 quick stories

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SAFETY TECH

📱 Your voice could reveal how drunk you are

The Rundown: A new study from Stanford University shows that smartphones can potentially monitor blood alcohol levels with 98% accuracy by passively analyzing changes in a person's voice.

The details:

• 18 participants read tongue twisters while drinking, allowing researchers to correlate voice patterns with intoxication.

• Voice recordings were taken repeatedly and matched to breathalyzer tests, with machine learning isolating vocal features like frequency and pitch to correlate with intoxication.

• The tech could provide non-invasive, real-time alerts against driving or other risky behaviors while intoxicated.

The relevance: As we also highlighted in a separate story in today’s Rundown AI (detecting diabetes from voice recordings) — there is serious untapped potential in analyzing audio. This type of innovation could be standard on future smart devices.

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MEDICAL TECH

🦴 New composite stimulates bone regrowth

The Rundown: Researchers just developed an implantable scaffold made of bioactive glass and polymer that aids broken bone healing by inhibiting bacteria and promoting tissue regrowth.

The details:

• The customized scaffolds are designed to fit severe break sites based on CT scans and replace missing bone.

• The bioactive glass component raises pH to hamper bacteria and transforms into a bone-like compound called hydroxyapatite.

• The polymer provides structural strength, with the scaffold degrading as the bone heals over 6-7 years.

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SNIPPETS

Nature fully retracted a blockbuster paper from physicist Ranga Dias claiming discovery of room-temperature superconductivity, invaliding the purported finding that could have revolutionized energy and computing.

A robot at a Korean food facility fatally crushed a technician after mistakenly identifying him as a box of produce and attempting to lift him.

The Department of Justice reached a $25 million settlement with Apple after alleging the company violated anti-discrimination laws through restrictive hiring for a visa program.

Humane launched its anticipated screenless wearable AI Pin powered by OpenAI, letting users interact via voice, touchpad, and by projection.

Cruise has begun layoffs of contingent workers who supported its driverless operations, which paused after key permits were suspended over a crash.

Disney announced a combined Disney+ and Hulu app will launch in the US in March after a December beta, consolidating the streaming libraries and cutting content costs.

Amazon is reportedly planning to replace the Android core of its Fire OS software with a new homemade Linux-based OS called Vega across Fire TV, Echo, and future devices.

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