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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. The Ability Hand is connected by Bluetooth to a smartphone app, which provides users another way to configure and control the hand's movements. Pierre , 2018–2019 U.S.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). In the U.S.

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Apps Put a Psychiatrist in Your Pocket

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Nearly every day since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, has played the piano. Compared to a healthy user [top], a person experiencing symptoms of bipolar disorder [middle] or depression [bottom] may use their phone more than usual and late at night.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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During a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October 2019, Representative Maxine Waters D-Calif.) who said to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: “I think you of all people can appreciate using a person’s past behavior in decisions about future behavior. These companies had two main concerns. billion.

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Subspace Rebuilt the Internet for Real-Time Applications

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In December 2019 the videoconferencing company Zoom had 10 million daily participants, and by April of the following year it had 300 million. More than 20 percent of Internet-connected devices experienced performance issues at any given time, and 80 percent had major disruptions several times a day.

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