Three Entertainment Stories About Current Events and Trends

Published: February 22, 2024

Amazon Uses AI For Healthcare

By Nylah Smith

(Credit to Alexis Rowland)

AI has been playing an increasing role in healthcare, trying to make it easier for healthcare providers to save time and see more patients, but it isn’t easy learning how to use AI, so to make it easier for healthcare providers, Amazon has recently announced a new AI healthcare service called Amazon Web Service (AWS) HealthScribe.

This service is HIPPA approved, allowing healthcare providers to build their own clinical applications that save time. It saves time for healthcare providers by creating transcripts, generating notes, and analyzing patient and clinician conversions. Even though there are benefits, there are also cons. AWS isn’t always accurate due to audio quality, background noise, and AI sometimes malfunctioning. Also, people have their doubts about AI in healthcare.

“It wouldn’t be very trusting, it could malfunction, it could be input wrong,” junior Cloei Evans said.

Despite the pros and cons, AWS has a steadily growing 34 percent success rate and has been useful for healthcare providers. Looking at how successful AI has been in healthcare, don’t be alarmed to see it being used at your next appointment.

Budget Easy With Girl Math

By Izzy Lash

Make budgeting easy in these three steps! Girl math is the hottest new way to keep track of spending. Simply ignore all manner of actual cost in order to focus on the savings. For instance, wearing a $20 sweater 20 times is basically getting the sweater free. 50 percent off of a $100 purchase is actually a net gain of $50. Girl math is about making the most of your delusions.

Of course, girl math is an internet joke rather than an actual strategy. It’s a way for people, mostly high school to college aged women, to joke about their spendings. Girl math is part of a larger trend of putting the word ‘girl’ in front of everyday things, like girl dinner, girls night, and girl moment, in order to share things that may have been odd, like eating a single sauce packet for dinner, in a way that doesn’t get flagged for concerning behavior.

“Girl math is silly, I think it’s funny,” junior Heidi Turek said.

So, try girl math. Your bank account may cry, but you sure won’t.

(Credit to Faith Smith)

Concrete for the Soul

By Izzy Lash

(Credit to Heidi Huff)

Gravity defying smoothies, shakes and ice creams have been a craze since the dawn of Tik-Tok, and while there were many instances of success, the one that took the spotlight was Dairy Queen’s concrete shake.

The main difference between Dairy Queen’s concrete shake and the average milkshake is that, in order to make it impossible to spill, it must first actually be a ‘concrete’. The difference is in the base material. Instead of being ice cream based, concrete shakes have a custard base with more egg yolk than usual. This leads to a tighter structure when frozen, much like their namesake, concrete. But the real reason for their fame was taste.

“Dairy Queen ice cream is a go to late summer night snack that always hits,” senior Maggie Cuccio said.

This mixture isn’t exactly a secret. Plenty of other places sell concrete shakes. The reason Dairy Queen received so much hype for theirs was thanks to their prior fame as a well known fast-food place, and their credibility as a good place to get a shake.

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