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Study: iPad-based HIV prevention game increased adolescents’ knowledge of the disease
Children who played iPad-based HIV prevention game PlayForward: Elm City Stories knew more about HIV risk than those that played other video games, according to an oral abstract on a randomized control trial of 198 adolescents presented at the AIDS conference this week.
How Artificial Superintelligence Will Give Birth To Itself
There’s a saying among futurists that a human-equivalent artificial intelligence will be our last invention. After that, AIs will be capable of designing virtually anything on their own — including themselves.
Defender smart pepper spray sends attacker’s picture along to 911
Smashing though a $100,000 funding goal on Indiegogo in less than two days, the Defender is a pepper spray device with a built-in digital camera that captures an image of the person being sprayed.
Researchers develop smart seatbelt that senses heart rate to combat driver fatigue
A group of researchers from Spain have published a paper on a seatbelt and seat cover embedded with sensors that can detect the driver’s respiration and heart rate to combat the driver fatalities and car accidents caused by fatigue.
How Artificial Superintelligence Will Give Birth To Itself
There’s a saying among futurists that a human-equivalent artificial intelligence will be our last invention. After that, AIs will be capable of designing virtually anything on their own — including themselves.
Singularity University Exponential Medicine
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Can Mobile Technologies and Big Data Improve Health?
After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age. Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing, and advances in analytic software now make it possible to capture vast amounts of information about our individual makeup and the environment around us.
Pig Heart Transplants For Humans Are On The Way
She’s got the heart of a pig—and that’s a good thing. Researchers are reporting that a baboon is still alive after receiving a heart transplanted from a pig, The Telegraph reports. The baboon has lived with the heart in its abdomen for more than a year. Its longevity is a milestone.
The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
The international community appeared to be shaken by the withering assault on the neighborhood of Shejaiya and by the deaths of 87 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers, including one from California and one from Texas.
Jerry The Bear Helps Diabetic Kids Learn to Manage Their Own Blood Sugar
If you’re a young kid diagnosed with diabetes, it can be hard to submit to all the self-monitoring that people with the disease must do each and every day.




