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Apps Put a Psychiatrist in Your Pocket

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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. Calls and texts: The frequency of text messages and phone conversations signifies a person’s social isolation or activity, which indicates a certain mood.

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Hyundai Motor to establish Hyundai Mobility Global Innovation Center in Singapore

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With Hyundai CRADLE’s presence in Singapore, the company will expand its global innovation network to Southeast Asia, with hubs already established in Korea, US, Israel, Germany and China. In the US, car-sharing and robo-taxi services will capitalize on the anticipated commercialization of autonomous vehicles of SAE Level 4 or higher.

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Better Place closes $200M Series C financing; valuation now $2.25B

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Better Place, a developer and provider of electric car networks—including battery switch stations, batteries and public/personal charge spots ( earlier post )—worldwide, has secured $200 million through a Series C equity financing from a consortium of top-tier investors and partners, nearly doubling the company’s valuation to $2.25

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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A person who requires insulin must walk a tightrope. If it falls too low, the person may faint; if it rises too high and stays elevated for too long, the person may go into a coma. Only in 1970 did ambulatory blood-glucose testing become possible; in 1980 it became commercially available.

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Renault and Better Place partner in Australia to launch Fluence Z.E. with switchable battery in 2012

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The Better Place membership provides unlimited access to batteries, the network of public charge spots and battery switch stations, and personal charge spots at home or work. cars per household and one million new passenger and light commercial vehicles are sold every year. both for regular service and specific repairs. Fluence Z.E.

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Better Place Debuts EV Services Platform and Partners at Frankfurt Motor Show

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Better Place introduced its electric vehicle (EV) services platform at the Frankfurt Motor Show, in conjunction with Renault’s unveiling of the Fluence ZE Concept with Quickdrop (switchable) battery system and an expanded agreement with Renault, committing both companies to a volume of at least 100,000 electric cars in Israel and Denmark by 2016.

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Are You Ready for Workplace Brain Scanning?

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Neural sensors are now reliable and affordable enough to support commercial pilot projects that extract productivity-enhancing data from workers’ brains. But there are serious questions about whether work should be organized around certain functions of the brain, rather than the person as a whole. This is not sci-fi,” says.