Yearly Archives: 2014
Wearable Technology That Feels Like Skin
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When it comes to the future of computing, there is one major known and a principal unknown.
The ...
Mind-controlled prosthetic arm now a reality
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A man in Sweden has become the first recipient of a mind-controlled prosthetic arm that is direc...
Estonians Embrace Life in a Digital World
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TALLINN, Estonia — The centuries-old city center here looks quaintly antique, with well-worn...
Experimental Ebola Drug Puts Its Maker, Chimerix, Back in the Spotlight
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Just seven months ago, executives at the biotechnology company Chimerix were receiving death thr...
Zoeticx Middleware API Unifies Incompatible Electronic Medical Records
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Zoeticx has written middleware which can unify data from any current provider into a single com...
Meet the computer that can outsmart IBM’s Watson
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Amelia, experts say, is "the next level up" from IBM's Watson supercomputer.
In 1998, an indepen...
‘Invisibility cloak’ uses lenses to bend light
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A device called the Rochester Cloak uses an array of lenses to bend light, effectively renderin...
Costs Can Go Up Fast When E.R. Is in Network but the Doctors Are Not
When Jennifer Hopper raced to the emergency room after her husband, Craig, took a baseball in the face, she made sure they went to a ho...
Roche Breast Cancer Drug Appears to Greatly Extend Patients’ Lives
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A drug used to treat advanced breast cancer has had what appears to be unprecedented success in p...
Africa wants equal partners, not exploitation – Maged Abdelaziz
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In 2012 the United Nations General Assembly created a mechanism to monitor commitments made by A...