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 Today Entrepreneur teaches us that "AI Gives Outdated Industries a Makeover."  

AI transforms medical imaging

A revolution is brewing within the medical-imaging space as well. X-rays haven’t changed much in the past 100 years. We may have digitized all the technology surrounding them, but we have yet to make monumental changes. The cathode ray tube still has to be superheated for an X-ray to work, and the heating and cooling makes the machines very expensive. Fortunately, the AI solution developed by Nanox has made a breakthrough in X-ray technology, allowing the cathode (which is a vacuum tube that produces images when its phosphorescent surface is struck by electron beams) to operate at room temperature. Moreover, the company introduced the digital x-ray, which is the first innovation in x-ray technology in the past 126 years. The development of a new breed of medical-imaging infrastructure that can be deployed en masse, coupled with a radiology-services cloud platform, provides preventive care solutions on a global scale.

So, according to the author, x-rays apparently change every 200 years or so, but it is unclear in what way.  All the technology surrounding x-rays has been digitized, but in non-monumental way.  X-rays require cathode ray tubes - just like those old TVs.  And those cathode ray tubes have to be superheated, which makes them very expensive (they cost almost $100 on eBay, as nobody makes them anymore).  

Fortunately, an artificial intelligence solution is here to help.  That artificial intelligence has made a break-through discovery that the genuine intelligence could not make - it found a way to allow the cathode, which is the Trinitron vacuum tube used by Sony's TVs, to operate at room temperature (Sony TVs, if you remember, used to only operate in ovens set to 500 degrees Fahrenheit).  

Moreover, the company behind that artificial intelligence introduced digital (not to be confused with digitized) x-rays.  That is, apparently, the first innovation in x-ray technology in the past 126 years - in other words, everyone has been using the same-old cold-cathode (and, thus, digital) Crookes tube that Roentgen used in 1895 - no change since then.

Now, who is to blame?  The clueless author, the inept editor, or the cunning fraud that sprays all this nonsense in its press releases and investor presentations, and on its website and social media.