Source: Digital Trends
There are now more cellphones on earth than human beings. That’s according to data from the United Nations, the UN’s International Telecommunication Union and the World Bank, who found that in the middle of the past decade, the number of active cellphone plans surpassed the now more than 7.5 billion people on the planet. Not every single person has their own phone, of course, and many people have more than one. Plus, there are only about 5.28 billion smartphones globally.
Source: Quartz
Traditional tests for how much eyesight a person has lost due to glaucoma are complex and time-intensive, but IBM’s research team has used artificial intelligence and deep learning to evaluate vision levels based on a 3-D scan of an optic nerve. They report that the method is more accurate than conventional tests, and that going forward, AI could predict the outcomes of future vision tests, allowing doctors to better treat glaucoma patients.