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IBM working on robot to take care of the elderly : Technology major IBM is developing a robot based on SoftBank's Pepper

IBM working on robot to take care of the elderly : Technology major IBM is developing a robot based on SoftBank's Pepper to assist the elderly and their caregivers. The robot will study ways of measuring heart and respiratory rate, answer basic health-related questions and determine if an individual...
Source: inshorts.com

NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016: On behalf of the editors of NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry , I am pleased

NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016: On behalf of the editors of NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry , I am pleased to present the Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016. The selection of the 10 best stories was, as always, difficult, with more than 200 summaries published in the past year that inform...
Source: jwatch.org

Robotic Kiss Transmitter Lets You Smooch a Loved One From Afar

Robotic Kiss Transmitter Lets You Smooch a Loved One From Afar
Source: ieee.org

Read Yuval Harari's Homo Deus. Great read giving insight into human behaviour from a historical perspective cautiously predicting

Read Yuval Harari's Homo Deus. Great read giving insight into human behaviour from a historical perspective cautiously predicting what the future might hold. Good account of the common myths that we hold ... like Gods and - even more widespread - money. Places modern 'humanism' at the centre of his...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal: The app's developer is working on a way to circumvent the ban.

Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal: The app's developer is working on a way to circumvent the ban.
Source: engadget.com

A filmmaker installed security software on a decoy phone to spy on smartphone thieves

A filmmaker installed security software on a decoy phone to spy on smartphone thieves
Source: theverge.com

Turkey blocks Tor's anonymity network: It's harder to evade the country's growing censorship efforts.

Turkey blocks Tor's anonymity network: It's harder to evade the country's growing censorship efforts.
Source: engadget.com

Multi-social millennials more likely depressed than social(media)ly conservative peers: Compared with the total time spent

Multi-social millennials more likely depressed than social(media)ly conservative peers: Compared with the total time spent on social media, use of multiple platforms is more strongly associated with depression and anxiety among young adults, the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media,...
Source: eurekalert.org

New Evidence of the Superiority of Female Doctors: If all physicians were women, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every

New Evidence of the Superiority of Female Doctors: If all physicians were women, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year.
Source: theatlantic.com

Review question: Are action plans with brief education to help patients recognise and respond to worsening symptoms effective

Review question: Are action plans with brief education to help patients recognise and respond to worsening symptoms effective in COPD? | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org

The battle for high-quality VR: "It's time to acknowledge that your audience does not need to see your every stumble on

The battle for high-quality VR: "It's time to acknowledge that your audience does not need to see your every stumble on the way to virtual reality greatness."
Source: niemanlab.org

Tiny Implantable "Microcoils" in the Brain Activate Neurons Via Magnetic Fields: Precise stimulation could be useful for

Tiny Implantable "Microcoils" in the Brain Activate Neurons Via Magnetic Fields: Precise stimulation could be useful for visual prosthetics or brain-computer interfaces
Source: ieee.org

Horus Recognizes Faces, Reads Text, Describes World Around for Blind People |: A new device is expected to soon be made

Horus Recognizes Faces, Reads Text, Describes World Around for Blind People |: A new device is expected to soon be made available for visually impaired people that uses voice to describe the world in front of them. The device is a camera and standalone computer that can be trained to recognise faces....
Source: medgadget.com

Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs:

Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs: This study assesses the sensitivity and specificity of an algorithm based on deep machine learning for automated detection of diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema in...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Skull casket holding human bones reveals weird burial rituals

Skull casket holding human bones reveals weird burial rituals
Source: newscientist.com

Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study: Objective

Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study: Objective To estimate the effect of playing Pokémon GO on the number of steps taken daily up to six weeks after installation of the game. Design Cohort study using online survey data. Participants...
Source: bmj.com

Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures.

Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures. The potential for quality-linked reimbursement to incentivized improved quality of care, however, depends critically on whether physician quality can be measured reliably."
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic: There is considerable scientific interest in understanding

Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic: There is considerable scientific interest in understanding how cell assemblies - the long-presumed computational motif - are organized so that the brain can generate cognitive behavior. The Theory of Connectivity proposes that...
Source: frontiersin.org

The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming

The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming cheap, like the cost of communication or finding information. Machine intelligence is, in its essence, a prediction technology, so the economic shift will center around a drop in the...
Source: digitopoly.org

Baby bracelet aims to save newborns in India from hypothermia: The 8m babies born prematurely every year in India are at

Baby bracelet aims to save newborns in India from hypothermia: The 8m babies born prematurely every year in India are at risk of hypothermia. A Bangalore startup has invented a bracelet to protect them
Source: theguardian.com