Daniela Hernandez
@WSJ's digital @WSJScience editor. Recovering neuroscientist, pirate enthusiast. UCSC Scicommie 2012. @KHNews & @WIRED alumn
Last synced from Twitter 815d ago
Questions to Ask About How Your Medical Data Could Be Used by Researchers
Considering participating in medical research? Here are some things to ask about the study and how your information will be used.
Vitamin-Based Vaping Products Proliferate Online
Vaporizer products that contain vitamins and essential oils are largely escaping regulatory scrutiny, while being marketed on social media to young people as health products, and in some cases as ways to quit smoking.
Vaping’s Black Market Complicates Efforts to Combat Crises
Health officials are confronting a sprawling black market for vaping products as they seek to combat a mysterious lung illness and a surge in teen vaping.
WSJ News Exclusive | Sales of Illicit Vaping Products Find Home Online
As concerns about the health hazards of vaping mount, a market for cannabis-vaping products and the tools to create counterfeits is thriving online on big tech platforms like Amazon and Facebook.
Now Hiring: Robot Babysitters
Robots need managers too. Meet one robot specialist who gets paid to look after several robot security guards that roam offices in the San Francisco Bay Area. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal
1
Daniela Hernandez
@mims .@EmExtra and I made a video about that 🤖🤖🤖
100d
Engineered Mini Brain Models Show Patterns of Activity That May Resemble Babies’
Miniature, engineered reconstructions of the developing brain were found to have patterns of neural activity that resemble those recorded in very young brains, researchers reported Thursday.
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’
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.
1
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.”
154d
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.
1
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
418d
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.
2
Daniela Hernandez
"Nearly half of children at sleep-away summer camps take some sort of medication"
507d
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.
3
Daniela Hernandez
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
509d