Tech Digest daily roundup: AI in breast cancer screening as good as two radiologists, study finds

Artificial intelligence (AI) can "safely" read breast cancer screening images, a preliminary study suggests. Researchers found computer-aided detection could spot cancer in mammograms - X-ray pictures of the breast - at a "similar rate" to two radiologists. The NHS is already looking at how it can implement such technology in its breast screening programme. However, the…

BATTERY DEVELOPMENTS: Korean scientist claims eight-fold leap in power-up time

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It is a bit of a shame and quite an embarrassment for mankind that batteries haven’t come on in leaps or bounds since the 1970s, with modern Duracells only being marginally better than the Duracells used to power a Big-Trak for about 35 minutes on Christmas Day, 1981.

But that might possibly be about to change – thanks to a man called Prof. Cho Jae-phil who works at the Department of Applied Chemistry at Hanyang University, in South Korea…