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Introducing Login Approvals | Facebook - 0 views

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    Facebook post bout how to enable a form of two factor authentication via SMS.  This system requires you to have your phone with you if you are accessing facebook from a new machine.  
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iPhone/Android app allows doctors to quickly diagnose stroke | KurzweilAI - 0 views

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    Doctors can now make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone/Android app with close to the same accuracy as a diagnosis at a medical computer workstation, researchers from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine have shown in a new study. The Resolution MD Mobile app lets physicians view and manipulate remote medical images in high-resolution 3-D on the iPhone or Android phone, allowing for a quick diagnosis for the treatment of stroke, cardiac arrest, or other emergencies. 
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Smart skin: Electronics that stick and stretch like a temporary tattoo | e! Science News - 0 views

  • One major advantage of skin-like circuits is that they don't require conductive gel, tape, skin-penetrating pins or bulky wires, which can be uncomfortable for the user and limit coupling efficiency. They are much more comfortable and less cumbersome than traditional electrodes and give the wearers complete freedom of movement.
  • "The blurring of electronics and biology is really the key point here," Huang said. "All established forms of electronics are hard, rigid. Biology is soft, elastic. It's two different worlds. This is a way to truly integrate them."
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    Engineers have developed a device platform that combines electronic components for sensing, medical diagnostics, communications and human-machine interfaces, all on an ultrathin skin-like patch that mounts directly onto the skin with the ease, flexibility and comfort of a temporary tattoo. Led by researcher John A. Rogers, the Lee J. Flory-Founder professor of engineering at the University of Illinois, the researchers described their novel skin-mounted electronics in the Aug. 12 issue of the journal Science.
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Scientists announce human intestinal stem cell 'breakthrough' for regenerative medicine... - 0 views

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    Human colon stem cells have been identified and grown in a petri dish in the lab for the first time. This achievement, made by researchers of the Colorectal Cancer Lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and published in Nature Medicine, is a crucial advance towards regenerative medicine. Throughout life, stem cells of the colon regenerate the inner layer of our large intestine in a weekly basis. For decades scientists had evidences of the existence of these cells yet their identity remained elusive. Scientists led by the ICREA Professor and researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) Eduard Batlle discovered the precise location of the stem cells in the human colon and worked out a method that allows their isolation and in vitro expansion, that is their propagation in lab-plates (petri dishes).
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Wikimedia blog » Blog Archive » New mobile site launched on Wikipedia, soon f... - 0 views

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    With MobileFrontend, we now have the ability to easily allow not only Wikipedia but our sister projects to have a mobile friendly view. No longer will it just be Wikipedia that has a mobile view.
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Google Keeps Building the Tower of Babel, Floor by Floor - 0 views

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    Google announces three new languages to translate on Android and this article summarizes just what's happened in the last year on this front.  
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New Disposable, Medical Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt | Singularity Hub - 0 views

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    It's clear that the Fraunhofer researchers didn't set out to hit this milestone in camera technology. What they were really interested in was trying to improve upon endoscope technology. An endoscope involves a camera at the tip of a tube. The tube contains a wire that transmits the image back to a computer. The tube also serves as a way to physically manipulative the camera to snake it through the gastrointestinal tract, for instance. Typical endoscopes cost around $25,000-30,000 so they must be reused many times. Because the endoscope is going in and out of people's bodies, it must be cleaned and sterilized between each use, which just drives up the cost of maintaining the instrument. It's no wonder that hospitals charge more than $2,000 per endoscopy. All of this, however, would change if the camera was cheap enough to throw away.
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Crisis Mapping Meets Check-in - Technology Review - 0 views

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    Ushahidi's new hosting option makes it even simpler to set up a site with the crowdsourcing software.
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Sysomos on Osama Bin Laden: Wow, Does News Travel Fast - 0 views

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    Update: @TwitterGlobalPR has tweeted some factoids this afternoon. Twitter saw its highest rate of tweets per second last night with the peak coming with 5,106 at 11:00 p.m. EST. Between 10:45 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. EST Twitter average 3440 tweets per second. It is notable that Twitter did not crash under the load. A year ago at this time Twitter was having problems surrounding people tweeting about the soccer World Cup. This year the most notorious man in the world is killed and the company can handle it fine.
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#E2sday: Dare to Share - A New Culture of Collaboration in the Enterprise | The Future ... - 1 views

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    Infographic about a culture of collaboration in the workplace`
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Google+ Project: It's Social, It's Bold, It's Fun, And It Looks Good - Now For The Hard... - 0 views

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    Google might actually get social networking right this time with a completely integrated suite of new tools called Google+
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    Huh.
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Nevada's state legislature has approved the use of driverless cars - 0 views

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    Good background and references on Nevada's new law allowing autonomous vehicles. 
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    a new service that is trying to bridge the world of Google+ and Twitter by watching your public profile for + posts with #p2t in them.  It will then cross post them to Twitter. In invite-only as of July 10. 
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A New Use for MOOCs: Real-World Problem Solving - Zafrin Nurmohamed, Nabeel Gillani, an... - 0 views

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    Give a course, gain free consulting.
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Nielsen Report: Blogs Still on the Rise | ClickZ - 0 views

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    Combined, the three major blogging platforms -- Blogger, WordPress and Tumblr -- account for 80.5 million unique pairs of eyeballs in October 2011 (Facebook had 139.1 million unique that month.) By the end of 2011, the Nielsen/McKinsey company had tracked over 181 million blogs around the world, up from 36 million in 2006.
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