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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pierre , 2018–2019 U.S. MAKING PROSTHETIC LIMBS ACCESSIBLE. The program allows students to earn both an M.D. and a Ph.D.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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The stated goal is to experiment in autonomous on-demand vehicles, hedging the reduction in vehicle sales caused by ride sharing by making GM the preferred vehicle provider for Lyft drivers and integrating connectivity tools like OnStar. as well as 600 universities throughout the country. However, the company pulled the plug on 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. A 2019 study found that among 22 mood-tracking apps, the median user-retention rate was just 6.1 Over the years, she noticed a pattern: How well she plays depends on her mood.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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It started out as a means of running Amazon’s own platform and has since grown into a company that offers similar services to other companies and even university researchers. During a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October 2019, Representative Maxine Waters D-Calif.) Netflix is AWS’s largest customer. 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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