ChatGPT Health lets you analyze your medical records
OpenAI announced chatgpt healthA new feature designed for health and wellness in AI chatbots. ChatGPT users can access the Health section to connect wellness apps like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal. This is an isolated environment, which prevents other chat apps from accessing your medical data. Users in the US can connect their medical records provided by b.well. They can then ask questions related to their health. For example, you can ask it to give you a summary of your recent test results, advice about your diet and workout routine, etc. According to OpenAI, more than 230 million people interact with ChatGPT every week to ask health and wellness-related questions.
OpenAI says ChatGPS Health is designed to support medical care, not replace it. It also warns that the bot is not to be used for diagnosis or treatment. ChatGPT Health is currently available to users with ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans outside the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. OpenAI says it is working on expanding access to Health to all users on the web and iOS in the coming weeks.
Disney+ is testing vertical video
Disney is experimenting with vertical videos, which are available on YouTube Shorts, Instagram, TikTok, and more. According to an announcement from the company, these are portrait-oriented videos Being tested on Disney+. Users can expect original short-form videos, repurposed clips from social media, scenes from Disney+ shows, and more. Disney believes that these video formats will help increase user engagement on its platform.
It is not alone, Netflix is also dabbling with short videos. The popularity of such videos has increased on social media over the past few years, especially among mobile phone users. This may explain why streaming services are now moving in that direction. This is what experts believe AI-powered personalization The way people use streaming services will change.
Brave Browser makes its ad blocker more memory-efficient
Brave has had a major breakthrough in improving the performance of its browser. Unlike most browsers, Brave comes with a native adblocker, written in the Rust programming language. The company says its Rust-based adblock engine Now uses 75% less memory than beforeAnd it takes up around 45 MB of RAM on all platforms, i.e. Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. This is the default, you can save even more memory by enabling additional filter lists to block more ads, thus further increasing performance.
A blog post on the company’s website explains that Brave was able to achieve the milestone by refactoring the AdBlock engine to use a compact and efficient storage format called FlatBuffers. This in turn allowed developers to migrate approximately 100,000 AdBlock filters from standard, heap-allocated Rust data structures into a special, zero-copy binary format. Additionally, Brave has improved storage efficiency by 30%, filter matching performance by 13%, reduced memory allocation by 19%, and shared resources between instantiations of the AdBlock engine to reduce memory usage on the desktop.
Users can update their app to Brave v1.85 to receive the improvements. Brave says the improvements to its adblocker will also improve the battery life of devices. It plans to bring additional customizations to its browser in the next updates.
System requirements of 007 First Light surprise users
Fans of the upcoming James Bond game, 007 first lightThere were quite a few shockers this week when IO Interactive revealed the title’s system requirements. The minimum requirements to run 007 First Light at 1080p at 30 frames per second require a PC with 16GB of RAM and 8GB of video memory. This seems quite high to run a game at 30 FPS.
However, players who want to run the game at 1080p 60fps will need a computer with 32GB of RAM and 12GB of VRAM. This is really crazy.
Many people do not have such powerful PCs. In fact, Steam’s hardware survey indicates that less than half of PC players own such a machine. It’s unclear whether the game requires such a set up to play natively at 1080p, or whether these requirements are needed to experience the game using advanced technologies like NVIDIA’s DLSS, AMD FSR, Intel XESS, etc. The unusually high system requirements have set off alarm bells, with many users concerned about the game’s optimization. Some fans pointed out that there were several frame drops in a gameplay video recently published by the studio.
007 First Light was originally scheduled to launch on March 27, 2026, but the release was postponed to May 27, 2026. IO Interactive stated that the launch date was pushed back to give the developers more time to polish and refine the game.
Google Play Store users are getting a small settlement payment
Have you received an email stating that you are eligible for a settlement due to the class action lawsuit against Google Play Billing? Don’t worry, this time it is not a scam but reality. The plaintiffs had claimed that Google had used its dominance to suppress competition such as Google Play Billing and more affordable alternative payment methods in the Play Store, which meant that app developers and users had no choice but to use the system to make purchases. As a result of this lawsuit, Google is issuing small settlements to users.
Users who were residents of the United States or certain US territories, and purchased an app or paid for an in-app purchase Google Play billing between 2016 and 2023Are eligible for settlement. Payments are being sent automatically, and users report that they have received emails from Google and local authorities regarding settlements. It appears that Google is paying users around $2, although the amount could be higher depending on how much the user has spent on Google Play billing.
The email indicates that by accepting the payment, users will be giving up the right to sue Google over related claims. Users who wish to object to the settlement or opt out must do so by February 19, 2026.
