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Wired Wednesday: Colorblind Calibration app, Skin Cancer Detector and Learn Chinese via AI

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I spoke about these tech topics for Wired Wednesday with Ben Wilson:

  • Samsung’s new app helps people who are colorblind recalibrate colors on their TVs (source)
  • A Cheap, Portable Skin Cancer Detector Has Won the Dyson Award (source)
  • Microsoft Learn Chinese for iOS Launches: AI-Powered Teaching Assistant (source)

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