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If you find yourself in a dangerous situation, your first instinct may not be to reach for your smartphone for help. But a Brooklyn developer has built a new emergency app, ‘I’m Getting Kidnapped,’ that could help make you feel a bit safer, just in time for the World Cup.

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Long Island dermatologist Kavita Mariwalla knows well how to treat acne, burns, and rashes. But when a patient came in with a potentially disfiguring case of bullous pemphigoid—a rare skin condition that causes large, watery blisters—she was stumped.

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The tubes that make up the internet cover much of the world, but not all of it. Google has announced plans to get internet to where the tubes can’t reach, with three technologies: balloons, high-altitude solar-powered drones, and the latest, satellites in space.

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Google is planning to spend $1 billion on a fleet of satellites that will bring internet to the world’s most remote areas, the Wall Street Journal has revealed.

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Photo: Georgia TechGood Vibrations: By activating tiny vibration motors in its fingertips, the Mobile Music Touch glove speeds up the process of learning to play a piano melody. The glove looks humdrum, like a garment you might pick up at a sporting-goods store.

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Atlanta, Georgia-based health device maker CardioMEMS received FDA clearance for its CardioMEMS HF System, which monitors pulmonary artery pressure, but for patients who have experienced New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III heart failure and have been hospitalized for heart failure in the

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Up until very recently most people have had only one source for the information they could share with their doctors during a visit: How they felt.

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