Daniela Hernandez
@WSJ's digital @WSJScience editor. Recovering neuroscientist, pirate enthusiast. UCSC Scicommie 2012. @KHNews & @WIRED alumn
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Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram—and Sometimes Even Tinder
Employers are seeing a surge in CVs from Gen Z job applicants containing photos and illustrations; ‘there’s a freaking bitmoji’
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“There’s a freaking bitmoji on the résumé.” 😂🤣
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Isolation and Social Media Combine to Radicalize Violent Offenders
Social media is increasingly playing a role, especially among lone actors like the ones responsible for the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Advances Brain-Computer Interface
Neuralink says it is moving its brain-computer interface a step closer to a therapeutic device.
Don’t Understand Moronic Bromides (in Scientific Acronyms)?
You aren’t alone. There is a whole wing of research showing those clever names for inventions and medical studies just confuse everyone.
Computers Can Now Bluff Like a Poker Champ. Better, Actually.
A new artificial intelligence program called Pluribus is so advanced at a key human skill—deception—that it wiped out five human poker players with one lousy hand. ‘Hopeless.’
It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done
Voltaire was right.
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Daniela Hernandez
“Recognizing that inflection point — the point at which our continuing to rework our work reaches a law of diminishing returns — is one of the hardest skills to learn, but also one of the most necessary.”
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New Noninvasive Genetic Tests for IVF Embryos Are in Development
Scientists at academic medical centers and fertility companies are developing more accurate and less invasive ways to test whether embryos made through in vitro fertilization procedures might have genetic abnormalities.
Robot Restaurants: Good or Gimmicky?
The restaurant industry is embracing automation, from robot-staffed espresso bars to fully automated burger chefs. In this episode, we explore what this means for workers, diners and--most importantly--the quality of our food.
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Daniela Hernandez
I put my own robo-interactions to good use with @StrongReporter & @LauraSimWSJ in this episode about robots in restaurants 🍔🤖Give a listen! wsj.com/podcasts/robot… @mims @juliejargon
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Winds Confound Scientists’ Ability to Predict Hurricane Florence
A unique combination of weather patterns and coastal geography is adding to uncertainty about where Florence is headed and how ferocious it will be.
Brain Data Could Read Moods, Potentially Treat Depression
A newly developed algorithm to help read mood-related brain activity could lead to more personalized therapies for psychiatric conditions like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
IBM Bet Billions That Watson Could Improve Cancer Treatment. It Hasn’t Worked.
Big Blue spent billions on its Watson artificial intelligence product with a focus on cancer care. Sometimes, it didn’t say more than doctors already knew. In other cases, Watson was tripped up by a lack of data in rare or recurring cancers and...
Meet the Chatbots Providing Mental Health Care
Researchers are working to teach empathy to artificially intelligent messaging tools, with the goal of supplementing human therapists.
The New Camp Counselor Is a Therapist
Summer sleep-away camps are bringing in social workers to talk with teenage campers about their anxiety and struggles to relax, make friends and give up electronic devices and social-media apps.
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"Nearly half of children at sleep-away summer camps take some sort of medication"
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How AI is Augmenting Therapy
Millions of people suffering from mental health issues are left untreated and undiagnosed. In this episode, we meet the psychologists and scientists studying how artificial intelligence can help.
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Meet the psychologists and scientists studying how artificial intelligence and VR can help tackle mental health issues: wsj.com/podcasts/how-a… My latest Future of Everything podcast with @AnthonyGrreen. This was an especially heart-wrenching one
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Frequent Technology Use Linked to ADHD Symptoms in Teens, Study Finds
A new study of 2,500 teenagers linked frequent use of technology like social media sites, videogames and streaming services to ADHD symptoms.
Drugmakers Call Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug Study Outcome Positive
Biogen and Japan’s Eisai said they had “positive” results from a midstage study of an experimental Alzheimer’s drug, offering signs a medicine could finally disrupt the disease’s memory-robbing course, though experts said it was too soon to say the...
How Computers Could Make Your Customer-Service Calls More Human
The robotic call-center agent reading from a script is getting a makeover as a number of companies develop software to give agents real-time feedback about how their customer conversations are going.
The Quest to Decode the Brain
New tools that can give a more detailed look at how neurons work are leading the research of brain scientists in new directions.
Hacking the Brain's Code
Today, paraplegics can move robotic limbs using only their thoughts. But when it comes to our understanding of how the brain works, we still have a long way to go. Meet the scientists attempting to hack the world's most complex computer.
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The brain is still the world's most powerful computer. In our latest episode of the Future of Everything, meet the scientists trying to decode it: wsj.com/podcasts/hacki… @AnthonyGrreen @StrongReporter @BrianRobertGZ
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How Robots Are Making Better Drugs, Faster
Companies like Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline are investing in automation with the hope of transforming drug discovery from an enterprise where humans do manual experiments to one where robots handle thousands of samples around the clock.