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Google’s Deep Learning AI Project to Revolutionize Cancer Screening
Properly identifying whether the patient has cancer is no easy task, even for experienced pathologists. In fact, the likelihood of agreement between two pathologists observing the same slides can be as low as 48 per cent and this could be a big problem when time is off the essence. Google’s…
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Scientists Create Smartphone Attachment for Screening Cancer
A new portable smartphone attachment that can be utilized to effectively screen for cancer is the result of a joint effort between researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, Sweden’s Stockholm University, and Uppsala University. The device is an effective tool especially for underdeveloped countries where advanced equipment is…
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Omron Demos Project Zero 2.0 at CES 2017
In today’s modern society, consumers are able to access vast sums of data to monitor their calorie intake and other key health statistics on-the-go. Hopefully, this information should allow people to make small changes to their lifestyle which can have a rather dramatic effect. While the focus tends to be…
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Smart Stitches Tell You How Much You’ve Healed
When it comes to technology and medicine they go hand in hand. From the concept of being able to heal people from the inside out to giving people the ability to walk again, the latest piece of technology comes in the form of smart stitches. The new stitches come from…
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Introducing Pillo: Your Very Own Personal Home Health Robot
Pillo Health wants you to be intrigued by its Pillo “home health robot,” a curious blend of personal health, facial recognition, machine learning, and automation. The mini robot has a high-definition camera, omni-directional microphones, 7” touch screen, text to speech software, voice, and facial recognition, and the ability to learn.…
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Fitbit Could be Getting Your Heart Rate Wrong
In this day and age, wearable technology can do amazing things. With people being able to check their emails and text messages with a simple flick of their wrist while some technology even gives us a chance to monitor our heartbeat and track your location. One of the most famous…
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Toshiba Recalls Batteries Amongst Fears of Melting
Toshiba is a company known for their laptops and SSD’s, offering hardware to hundreds of people. If you are one of those people it may be best to double-check your laptop as Toshiba recalls batteries amongst fears of the batteries overheating and melting. That’s right, the batteries can actually melt.…
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Battlefront Glitch Gives Gamers a Massive Advantage
If you’ve been Star Wars: Battlefront, one of the most eagerly awaited games released this year, you may have noticed a slight glitch in the system. Recently there have been a lot of players crashing their X-wings and tie fighters at full pace into the ground, daft as it sounds,…
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Xiaomi Announces $16 Heart Rate Monitoring Fitness Watch
The fitness market is booming as people try to lose weight through calorie controlled diets, and rigorous exercise. Technological advancements have allowed consumers to better understand their eating habits and even track sleep deprivation through fitness monitors. One popular example is the Fitbit Flex, which acts a pedometer and whole…
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Amazon Web Services Goes Down Before Getting Up Again
Bit of Tubthumping play on words in the title there, readers who remember the 90s will get this, surely, oh come on I am not that old! Anyway, many web services are intrinsically integrated with each other to bring benefits to consumers, all well and good then right? Yes and…
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Google Health Now Contains Over 900 Illnesses Information
Google is developing a lot of tools and technologies that are said to be shaping the future. From their AR glasses, Google Glass, to their self driving cars, Google is not staying with just the internet when it comes to what they develop. One of their software pieces is titled Google…
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Almost ‘Fully Formed’ Human Brain Grown in a Lab for the First Time
Researchers from Ohio State University have come tantalizingly close to cultivating a human brain for the very first time. This technological breakthrough is designed to monitor brain activity to help understand neurological conditions such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons. Although not conscience, the synthetic brain reflects the genetic maturity of a…
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E-Cigarettes Could be Prescribed by NHS to Wean Smokers Off Cigarettes
Smoking is one of the major health risks of modern society and contains over 4000 chemicals including nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT. A recent technological alternative is the E-Cigarette, which offers the addictive nicotine hit without the dangerous chemical after-effects. Despite this, there have been…
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First Details Emerge About Nintendo’s “Quality of Life” Device
There has been a great deal of contrasting theories regarding Nintendo’s “Quality of Life” device and its possible relation to the Codename NX project. Recently, a NeoGAF user stumbled upon Nintendo’s WIPO Patent Application WO/2015/107747 which includes schematics about the Quality of Life programme. Unfortunately, the text is in Japanese,…
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Can Depression be Detected by Analyzing Smartphone Data?
When I first stumbled upon this story I became interested for two reasons, firstly, sufferers all too often hide this illness from view, the “yes I’m fine” is a mantra which all too often covers a veil which is impossible to imagine. According to ball park stats, more than 350…
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