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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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The Ability Hand is available in the United States for patients age 13 or older. He went on to earn a master's degree in computer science in 2008, also from Loyola. Akhtar and Nguyen flew to Quito, Ecuador, to test their product on Juan Suquillo, who lost his left hand during a 1979 border war between Ecuador and Peru.

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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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The potential biases in such an algorithm will depend on how its software developers train it, says Weber: “You have to be very careful and it’s one of the biggest problems: Probably you won’t have tons of video of people with dangerous behavior available to train the algorithm.” “In Human rights in other countries may suffer.

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