Artificial intelligence could allow people excluded from clinical trials to access them

Clinical trials often have a serious drawback– People who are given drugs in them are selected very strictly. Most clinical trials, for example, do not allow pregnant women. And most have age requirements. Also, most do not allow people with conditions other than those being tested.

This filtering process reduces the available pool of potential volunteers and also unnecessarily excludes many people who may benefit from therapy. Artificial intelligence could change this sieve.

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Learn the basics of programming with this free two-hour beginner’s course

If you want learn to program There are countless websites to do it and also free. Now, what is usually difficult is not getting where but deciding when and which course you need to start.

To do this, the folks at freeCodeCamp, who have an extensive curriculum to learn from scratch, create extremely basic and novice-proof mini courses and tutorials. That is the case with this hours video (in English with subtitles) covering an introduction to programming.

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In less than three years Proton and Steam Play have changed the world of Linux gaming by running more than 14 thousand games

Few games were as highly anticipated by the end of 2020 and ended up making as much noise (though mostly for bad reasons) as Cyberpunk 2077. The ambitious CD Projekt Red title came with so many bugs and performance issues, especially on next-gen consoles. last, that Sony ended up removing it from its digital store and until the sun today it has not returned.

The best version, most reviews agreed, is the PC version, one that could also be played almost from day one on Linux. Yes, one of the most powerful and technically ambitious triple-A games of recent times, played better on Linux than on a PS4 (depending on the PC of course). The point is, if that story doesn’t tell us already how different the Linux gaming landscape is today than it was 5 years ago, nothing will.

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Is there a way to play Fortnite from an iPhone or iPad?

Fortnite, one of the most popular games in recent times, was removed last August from the iOS and Android app stores. The reason? Epic Games announced its own payment system in Fortnite that violated Apple and Google rules (dodged their commissions), and they decided remove the game from the App Store and Google Play, respectively.

In the beginning, those who had the game downloaded and installed could continue playing it, but with the arrival of the fourth season everything changed. To play Fortnite, you need the updated version and Epic has not officially released it in either app store. On Android, the solution is to use the Epic launcher, but what about iOS? Is there a way to play? We’ll tell you then.

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