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Now IBM’s Watson Tackles Questions That Have No Answers
When IBM’s advanced artificial intelligence program Watson beat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings in 2011, it was an impressive feat for a computer–but still, it was only processing information that humans already knew in order to answer trivia questions.
The Handheld Reusable DNA Sequencer is Here
About the size and shape of a clay brick, the battery-powered prototype called Freedom4 is the result of a six-year collaboration between a computer programmer, a physicist, a chemist, and a team of biologists.
DARPA Project Starts Building Human Memory Prosthetics
Remember This? Lawrence Livermore engineer Vanessa Tolosa holds up a silicon wafer containing micromachined implantable neural devices for use in experimental memory prostheses.
New ‘Biochips’ That Mimic Our Bodies Could Speed Development of Drugs
Imagine if scientists could recreate you—or at least part of you—on a chip. That might help doctors identify drugs that would help you heal faster, bypassing the sometimes painful trial-and-error process and the hefty costs that burden our healthcare system.
The Data Scientist on a Quest to Turn Computers Into Doctors
Some of the world’s most brilliant minds are working as data scientists at places like Google, Facebook, and Twitter—analyzing the enormous troves of online information generated by these tech giants—and for hacker and entrepreneur Jeremy Howard, that’s a bit depressing.
Beijing Doctors Implant World’s First 3D-Printed Vertebra into 12 Year-Old Boy
Doctors from the Peking University Third Hospital (PUTH) in Beijing, China, have become the first in the world to use 3D-printing in complex spinal cord surgery, after replacing a section of cancerous vertebra in a boy’s neck with a piece created on a 3D printer.
Nature Biotechnology
Additive manufacturing, otherwise known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, is driving major innovations in many areas, such as engineering, manufacturing, art, education and medicine.
Athos raises $12.2M for health sensing clothing
A selfie for your health: award-winning app Eyenaemia spots anemia
Normally diagnosed during a doctor’s visit, the condition can be spotted by looking at the hue of blood-rich areas such as the skin beneath the fingernails or the inner eyelid.
The Squink—a personal electronics factory?
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