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Facebook debuts its first dedicated virtual reality app, Facebook 360

March 10, 2017 Leave a comment

Facebook has devoted major resources and billions of dollars to virtual reality, but there has been a pretty clear line between what happens in the main Facebook app and what happens on the Oculus Rift and Gear VR.

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Sugar Does Rot Your Brain After All: Scientists Connect to Alzheimer’s

March 10, 2017 Leave a comment

Time to lower your sugar intake. Scientists from the University of Bath have just found the first connection between excess blood sugar glucose and Alzheimer’s disease.

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Once-banned Vigilante app now warns of nearby emergencies

March 10, 2017 Leave a comment

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Late last year, Sp0n released a Vigilante mobile app that was supposed to warn you of nearby crimes and emergencies. Or rather, it tried to release the app — Apple quickly pulled the title after worrying that the name and focus encouraged users to thrust themselves into dangerous situations.

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New Skin Patch Monitors Glucose and Delivers Diabetes Drugs

March 9, 2017 Leave a comment

  People with diabetes need to closely monitor their blood glucose levels multiple times every day, usually using a device that pricks their finger for a blood test to assess whether they need insulin shots or other drugs.

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Insta360 Air turns Android phones into 360-degree VR Cameras, now available in US and Europe

March 8, 2017 Leave a comment

Real-Time Image Stabilization on the Way – The Insta360 Air, a smartphone add-on that instantly turns Android phones into 360-degree cameras, is now on sale across the United States and Europe.

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Microsoft’s HoloLens: How these surgeons can now voyage around patients’ organs

March 8, 2017 Leave a comment

Using Microsoft’s HoloLens platform, researchers in Oslo have developed a way of turning traditional two-dimensional medical images into 3D augmented-reality models for planning surgery and navigating around organs during operations.

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There’s A Virus Infecting Our Medical Devices With Identity Stealing Malware

March 7, 2017 Leave a comment

We’re slowly learning that while appliances connected to the internet, aka the internet of things, might be convenient, they’re also a hacker’s paradise, because in our haste to make them easy to use, we’ve made them woefully insecure.

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The Legend of Zelda’s Hyrule Has Been Recreated in VR

March 7, 2017 Leave a comment

Virtual reality may be the way of the future for gaming, but for Nintendo, it’s a thing of the past. Over 20 years ago, Nintendo tried to release the Virtual Boy long before technology could give players a true VR experience.

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Crowdsourced Medicine Is Transforming the Diagnosis of Rare Disorders

March 7, 2017 Leave a comment

Patients trust their doctors to diagnose them accurately — and quickly. But when a patient has a rare condition or non-specific symptoms, getting that accurate diagnosis can become a costly process that takes months or even years. Maybe crowdsourced medical diagnosis could do a better job.

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This Father 3D Printed A Bionic Arm For His Infant Son, And Now Other Kids Can Have One

March 6, 2017 Leave a comment

When Ben Ryan’s son Sol was born, an injury during delivery led to a blood clot in his arm—and at the age of 10 days, the arm had to be amputated.

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