Some of the new signals used by its algorithm are meant to detect bigness: the number of different bylines it publishes, the number of foreign bureaus it boasts, the sheer volume of copy it cranks out in a given day.
Though these changes can go unnoticed by a person with a disease, relatives and friends more often pick up on it, but a computer algorithm that detects nuances of speech and subtle changes could detect abberations with much greater frequency.
It is the first charger of its kind to fully and automatically detect the different types of batteries that have been inserted into it and proceed to use the correct charging algorithm to handle the custom recharge of each battery individually.