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New Technologies Help Diagnose—and Prevent—Sports Injuries New technology is helping in the prevention of sports injuries by facilitating better practice and training sessions, educating players on game fundamentals, and inventing new protective gear. Innovative mouth-guards and wearables gather performance data and can even help prevent brain injuries. |
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Google Impact Challenge Awards Take on Disabilities Google has launched an Impact Challenge with a focus on helping people with disabilities. Grant funding of approximately $20 million will go to nonprofit organizations using emerging technologies to help create a more accessible world for people with disabilities. |
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Artificial Intelligence: The Next Big Thing to Watch Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term that's been a part of computer classes for over a decade, but it was merely theory then. The practice of AI is becoming more mainstream today and is certainly the next big thing to watch in the coming years—especially when its applications can benefit users. |
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Tactics That Boost Crowdfunding Donations, from Stanford Research Whether it’s for your own startup or a cause near and dear to your heart, Stanford computer scientists analyzed how crowdfunding websites can use data science insight to increase donations. The researchers analyzed online donations collected from 470,000 people who donated between 2009 and 2014. |
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Will Websites Eventually Become Extinct? Recently the Indian fashion retailer Myntra.com completely shut down its website and moved to an app-only mode. Is this a sign of things to come—that websites will eventually become extinct? Anuj Magazine examines the pros and cons of a mobile-only strategy. |
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Daimler’s Self-Driving Truck Licensed to Drive How do you feel about sharing the road with self-driving long-haul semi-trucks? The first licensed autonomous commercial truck hit the road on an open public highway in NV. In a staged nighttime production, Daimler Trucks’ Freightliner Inspiration drove on top of the Hoover Dam. |
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Emotion Tracking Software: Beneficial or Harmful? The first question you might have about a human emotion tracking application is: What is the value of understanding human emotions? It's understandable that the data collected can be used for meaningful purposes, but how could this adversely impact users' security and privacy? |
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NASA FINDER Technology Discovers Life in Nepal Disaster To add to the list of cool technology that’s come from NASA's research, here’s a big one—a search and rescue device that detected the heartbeat of four people trapped beneath 10 feet of rubble in the Nepal earthquake disaster so rescuers could reach them. |
