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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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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. He reported that he felt as though a part of him had come back thanks to the prosthesis.

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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. The alerts we raise are not based on biometrics, just a position, such as whether a person is lying on the ground,” says Alan Ferbach, cofounder and CEO of Videtics , a company in Paris that submitted a bid for part of the 2024 Olympics security contract. This time, people care.

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