AI BEAUTY BUD
I have an ugly red blotch on my arm from a recent skin cancer surgery which will soon be on display at a formal wedding. What’s the best concealer? I went to the website TiraMuisu.ai to ask my new beauty bud.
This artificially intelligent bot suggested Dermablend “Quick Fix” to make it blend in and setting powder to keep it from smearing when I’m hugging. But according to Google Gemini, by not recommending a third product, TiraMuisu goofed up. “If you put a flesh-toned makeup straight over the concentrated purple-red spot we see in your image,” it said, “the darkness will likely bleed through or turn the makeup gray.” Uh oh. A gray blotch sounds almost as bad as a red one. So I bought Gemini’s preferred green cream as an intermediary. Voilà. The blotch vanished.
TiraMuisu doesn’t allow image uploading, so I couldn’t show it my blotch. It just summarizes the reviews it gets from the web. But it could save me from watching 20 TikTok videos. According to the company, it summarizes video transcripts and comments from unpaid, everyday consumers. Armed with that info, it replies to your questions in three different voices: Tira, the hype girl, Muisu, the skeptic, and Mochi, the skin care chemist. It’s entertaining, but I still prefer Gemini.
New Way to Examine a Fetus
A friend of mine may be having her baby as I write this. When she’s rested, I’ll ask if her ultrasounds were powered by artificial intelligence. It’s the latest thing.
Anyone who has ever had a baby or looked at an ultrasound printout knows they look like grainy, black-and-white weather radar screens. But a company called Diagnoly offers an AI-powered assistant that changes everything. The black-and-white picture still looks grainy, but it now has real-time, digital bounding boxes, labels and color-coded geometric callouts directly on top. As a technician moves an ultrasound wand, these overlays automatically identify all the relevant baby parts. A tired doctor no longer misses crucial abnormalities.
It’s kind of a no-brainer for medical offices. Instead of requiring them to purchase massive, expensive new machinery, the doctors and sonographers can simply download the “Fetoly” app onto a standard iPad or Android tablet and plug it directly into their existing ultrasound systems. Unlike many modern medical AI systems that require a cloud connection, Fetoly runs entirely locally with zero dependency on the internet.
There are no specific medical offices or hospital systems in Arkansas publicly using Fetoly yet. However, because most of them use GE HealthCare’s Voluson systems, they have the technical capability to deploy the software.
Get a New Ringtone
It’s easy to get a new ringtone on iPhones with the latest iOS 26 operating system. Just open your Files app, choose some music, tap “Share,” and select “Use as Ringtone.” However, since my Files lacked music, I used a free app called “Voice Memos,” then played “The Sound of Music” on my computer while holding my phone up to the screen, stopping before the 30 second mark. Finally, I tapped the three dot menu, then “Share,” “View More,” and “Use as Ringtone.”
Do You Really Own Your Movies?
You don’t really own the movies you bought for streaming purposes. They can disappear.
That’s what happened to Sony customers in several European countries who bought movies at the PlayStation Store, according to Engadget. When a licensing deal with Studio Canal expired, the movies vanished from the customers’ video libraries. They didn’t get a refund either. Hey DVD, you’re looking good.
Good News for Windows 10 Users
The original “End of Life” support for Windows 10 was October, 2025. But when millions couldn’t or wouldn’t upgrade to Windows 11, they extended it to October 2026. More recently, they tacked on another year. The final cut-off is now October 2027.
Read This Next
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, says: “If you care about the future, read this book.” He’s referring to “The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity,” a groundbreaking collaboration by Jamie Metzl and GPT-5.
Metzl, a Harvard-and-Oxford-trained Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, prompted ChatGPT to analyze thousands of years of human scriptures, historical records, philosophical texts, myths, laws, and indigenous traditions to distill ten universal moral rules. He says AI is forcing a massive shift in our moral landscape, but we don’t have to take it lying down. Let’s stay moral everybody.
IBM Breakthrough
IBM has come up with a way to increase computing speed by 50 percent and energy efficiency by 70 percent.
Engineers were faced with the problem of designing computer chips that allowed them to squeeze nearly 100 billion transistors into a piece of silicon the size of a human fingernail. But in that case, the chip’s components would have to be 100,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair. No way that’s happening dude.
It’s like the classic city planners’ dilemma. How many homes can be crammed into a single lot? Imagine Manhattan without the skyscrapers. Even tiny homes wouldn’t fit. Similarly, a new kind of microscopic skyscraper vertically stacks and bonds components on top of each other. It’s called “nanostack technology.”
Nanostack technology is designed to handle enormous AI workloads without a catastrophic spike in global energy consumption. It also speeds up our gadgets and increases their battery life. Expect it in the next five to ten years.