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With sales of smartphones losing steam, technology companies including Intel believe that wearable computing devices – a still undefined category including smart watches, fitness trackers and Google Glass – could become a major trend in personal computing.

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Stop the press! IBM Research announced this morning that it has discovered a whole new class of… plastics. This might not sound quite as sexy as, say, MIT discovering a whole new state of matter — but wait until you hear what these new plastics can do.

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A burgeoning subculture of 3-D printed gun enthusiasts dreams of the day when a lethal firearm can be downloaded or copied by anyone, anywhere, as easily as a pirated episode of Game of Thrones.

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While wearables are definitely the hot topic of the tech world, without mass market acceptance the gadgets will likely end up as just novelties for the early adopter clique. A new Pew Research study, however, indicates that wearable tech is no mere flash in the pan.

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The fledgling Google Glass is slowly working its way into the mainstream, and one place that people should get used to seeing the device is in hospitals. Several medical institutions have already been testing the computer-enabled eyeglasses to see if the devices enhance doctor’s work.

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A few weeks ago, when we revisited Eric Topol’s top 10 digital health predictions, Topol mentioned microfluidics — and the ability to create home versions of medical lab tests — as one of the unexpected breakthroughs of the last five years.

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Plano, Texas-based remote monitoring startup Vivify Health (formerly Intuitive Health) raised $3 million, according to an SEC filing. This brings Vivify Health’s total announced funding to at least $6.4 million to date.

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Developer of a Google Glass app for doctors, Remedy, launched a pilot study with three Harvard hospitals in which they will provide physicians assistants who are handling night coverage in hospitals — a time when doctors are not around as often as during the day — with Google Glass so that they

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The analysts at the Institute for the Future present new research about our weird times. In a decade, cognitive enhancement may have gone mainstream. Pills can already help you stay up longer, bring more focus to your work, and who knows what else.

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Dengue fever infects millions and kills tens of thousands of people around the world each year. But an Australian-led program is showing positive signs of turning this brutal disease into a bite-sized issue.

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