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Facebook debuts its first dedicated virtual reality app, Facebook 360
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.
Sugar Does Rot Your Brain After All: Scientists Connect to Alzheimer’s
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.
Once-banned Vigilante app now warns of nearby emergencies

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.
New Skin Patch Monitors Glucose and Delivers Diabetes Drugs
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.
Insta360 Air turns Android phones into 360-degree VR Cameras, now available in US and Europe
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.
Microsoft’s HoloLens: How these surgeons can now voyage around patients’ organs
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.
There’s A Virus Infecting Our Medical Devices With Identity Stealing Malware
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.
The Legend of Zelda’s Hyrule Has Been Recreated in VR
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.
Crowdsourced Medicine Is Transforming the Diagnosis of Rare Disorders
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.
This Father 3D Printed A Bionic Arm For His Infant Son, And Now Other Kids Can Have One
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.




