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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. 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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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Even a casual glance at the IMF’s World Economic Outlook statistics for Russia shows the tight correlation since 1992 between GDP growth on the one hand and oil and gas output, exports, and prices on the other (economic series available here ). percent of GDP in 2014. If, as seems increasingly likely, the ban on crude exports is lifted, U.S.

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