The second-gen CZ Smart is a nice-looking smartwatch but so far has been plagued with laggy screens, poor battery life, and inaccurate health tracking.

Citizen is temporarily suspending sales of its second-gen CZ Smart watch due to a “technical issue.” The Wear OS watch, which launched in May, had a feature based on tech from IBM’s Watson and NASA to track a person’s alertness.

It appears the decision stems from negative experiences from reviewers. Michael Fisher — better known as MrMobile on YouTube — noted that Citizen said it would suspend sales after he had reached out to the company about the watch’s many issues. That was corroborated by a Wired story, in which reviewer Julian Chokkattu also detailed several bugs, like laggy screens, bad battery life, inaccurate tracking, and watchfaces that can’t even tell the correct time.

The platform will also take action against videos that discourage people from seeking professional medical treatment as it sets out its health policies going forward.

YouTube will remove content that promotes “cancer treatments proven to be harmful or ineffective” or which “discourages viewers from seeking professional medical treatment,” the video platform announced today. The enforcement comes as YouTube is attempting to streamline its medical moderation guidelines based on what it’s learned while attempting to tackle misinformation around topics like covid-19, vaccines, and reproductive health.

Going forward, Google’s video platform says it will apply its medical misinformation policies when there is a high public health risk, when there is publicly available guidance from health authorities, and when a topic is prone to misinformation. YouTube hopes that this policy framework will be flexible enough to cover a broad range of medical topics, while finding a balance between minimizing harm and allowing debate.

顔にボトックス注射を受けた人は、しわが薄くなり、元気で、穏やかで、若々しく見えるようになっただけでなく、以前より精神的に安定していることに気づくかもしれない。それは、鏡に映る顔への満足感だけによるものではない可能性がある。近年、うつ病や不安症に対するボトックス注射の効果が研究され、症状の大幅な改善につながる場合があることが明らかになってきている。

　ボツリヌストキシンは、植物や土壌や水の中に自然に存在しているボツリヌス菌がつくる毒素だ。その製剤であるボトックスは、筋肉を一時的にまひさせることで表情じわを減らしたり取り除いたりできるだけでなく、慢性片頭痛（編注：日本では保険適応外）、多汗症、痙性斜頸（けいせいしゃけい、首の筋肉が意思とは無関係に収縮して不自然な姿勢になる疾患）、過活動膀胱などの治療にも用いられている …

From Talos, the giant bronze automaton who guarded the princess Europa in ancient Greek myths, to Cylons and Terminators, the idea of artificial humans has both fascinated and creeped us out for centuries.

Now, we’re closer than ever to making a robot look remarkably like a human, with the development of living robot skin. This icky-looking substance is water repellent, self healing, and has a texture just like our own skin.

Because it’s actually made of human skin cells.

“I think living skin is the ultimate solution to give robots the look and touch of living creatures since it is exactly the same material that covers animal bodies,” said University of Tokyo tissue engineer Shoji Takeuchi.

Vehicles hired through Fetch are piloted to the customer by an operator at a remote location, though customers will still have to manually drive them for the duration of their rentals.

A new car rental service has launched in the UK that aims to deliver vehicles directly to customers without a driver inside. Instead of relying on autonomous driving technology, Fetch — a service launched by British startup Imperium Drive — remotely pilots its fleet of electric cars from the comfort of the company’s head office, providing a ‘driverless vehicle’ experience with the added safety of technically still having a human driver in control.

　人手不足の解消や業務の省力化などを狙って、スーパーやコンビニで相次いで導入されるようになった「セルフレジ」。商品のバーコード読み取りから会計操作までを客自身が行なうため、慣れない中高年層を中心に戸惑いの声は多い。ただ、戸惑っているのは来店客ばかりではない。街中のスーパーや飲食店では、セルフレジでの精算を巡るトラブルに店員側も苦慮しているという現実がある。

　東京・大田区の中規模スーパーの40代女性パート店員が打ち明ける。

「現在、当店では9割がセルフレジになっています。ここ2年で急速に導入が進み、私たち『チェッカー（レジ打ち）』のパートの大半が“配置換え”されました。商品の品出しや陳列、食品加工など、いわゆるバックヤード業務に回され、毎月の賃金が下がった人も少なくありません。私はチェッカーとして残りましたが、日々の大半の業務はセルフレジの操作補助。これが、相当ストレスが溜まる仕事で……」

The global smartwatch market, which had shown consistent growth in recent years, experienced a decline in the first quarter of 2023. According to Counterpoint Research’s Global Smartwatch Model Tracker, smartwatch shipments slumped by 1.5% year-over-year in Q1 2023. The shipment slump can be attributed to reduced demand from major players such as Apple and Samsung.

One of the significant contributors to the decline in smartwatch shipments is Apple, the leading player in the smartwatch market. The company witnessed a notable decline of 20% in smartwatch shipments during Q1 2023 compared to the same period last year.

This decline resulted in Apple’s shipments falling below 10 million units for the first time in three years. As a result, Apple’s market share dropped from 32% to 26%. The reduced demand for Apple watches can be attributed to the global economic crisis.

～G7群馬高崎デジタル・技術大臣会合で河野大臣など各国要人含め約300人が事業へ関心～

Honda has unveiled the EM1 e: e-scooter in Europe. Announced last September, the new model will be the first two-wheeled EV from the brand to launch on the continent. The EM1, or Electric Moped 1, has a three-phase brushless in-wheel motor with 0.58 kW typical and 1.7 kW peak power. The engine has a top speed of 45 kph (~28 mph) and delivers up to 90 Nm of torque.

The EM1 e: uses the removable 50V Honda Mobile Power Pack e: providing up to 41.3 km (~25.7 miles) typical range or 48 km (~30 miles) range in ECON mode. The battery can be recharged up to 2,500 times, with a 2.7-hour charge taking the battery from 25 to 75%; a full recharge takes around six hours. LED lights indicate the battery charge level, and the scooter consumes 47 Wh/km (~76 Wh/mile). A digital dash shows information such as the remaining battery, and you can recharge your phone via a USB-A port.

Fan is gleeful about video of beta Full Self-Driving mode breaking traffic laws.

Tesla released a new version of its controversial “Full Self-Driving Beta” software last month. Among the updates in version 11.4 are new algorithms determining the car’s behavior around pedestrians. But alarmingly, a video posted to Twitter over the weekend shows that although the Tesla system can see pedestrians crossing the road, a Tesla can choose not to stop or even slow down as it drives past.

The video was posted by the Whole Mars Catalog account, a high-profile pro-Tesla account with more than 300,000 followers. The tweet, which has been viewed 1.7 million times, featured a five-second video clip with the accompanying text …

　米オープンＡＩ社が開発した最新版の人工知能（ＡＩ）に日本の医師国家試験を解かせたところ、合格ラインを超えたと、日米の国際研究チームが明らかにした。ただ、人間の受験者の平均点は下回り、患者を安楽死に誘導する選択肢を選ぶなど不適切な解答もみられたという。

　米ワシントン大の笠井淳吾研究員（自然言語処理）らは、同社の対話型ＡＩ「チャットＧＰＴ」や、最新版の「ＧＰＴ―４」を使い、２０１８～２２年の５年分の医師国家試験を解かせた。その結果、チャットＧＰＴはいずれも不合格だったが、ＧＰＴ―４は５年分すべてで合格ラインを上回った。

　一方、ＡＩは妊婦の患者には投与できない薬剤を選んだり、患者に対して安楽死を促すような言葉がけを「適切な対応」として選択したりした。笠井氏は「日本の医療現場の法律やルールを知らなかったり、妊婦であるなど大切な情報を見落としたりするのは問題だ」としている。