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AT&T launches a medical radar-based monitoring device, Apple ships a high-yield savings account, Rocket Lab adds a suborbital launch option

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🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

AT&T and Cherish launched a medical radar device that monitors elders through walls. The radar detects falls across multiple rooms in a house, and leverages AT&T's connectivity to alert first responders in the event of emergencies. Key privacy and convenience selling points are that no wearable devices or cameras are needed 🔒

The product will initially only be available for enterprise customers, such as senior living facilities, nursing homes, and healthcare providers.

 ♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

  • Apple launches a high-yield savings account linked to its Card

  • Google to release new AI-powered search tools

  • Google launches performance upgrades to Chrome on Mac & Android

  • Twitter ships feature to label hateful tweets when it restricts them

  • Adobe adds it's generative-AI Firefly tool to video and audio editing

General and early-stage

  • Rocket Lab adds a suborbital launch option for hypersonic defense

  • AMC+ unveils an ad-supported tier for its streaming service

  • Superchat ships a chatbot to interact with notable historical figures

  • Elon Musk unveils TruthGPT, a "maximum truth-seeking AI" 

  • Warner Bros announces a multiplayer Harry Potter quidditch game

🔍 Other good finds

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  • Hands-free. iOS 17 may allow sideloading of apps on iPhones

  • Anatomy 101. How to design better UI cards

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- Amol