Connected Patient Challenge Highlights Health Care Innovations
Online voters narrowed down the six finalists who presented during the live event to a panel of judges comprising chief innovation officers and digital health leaders from a variety of technology...
View ArticleBH robotics team makes first FIRST trip to state championship
Eight Southwest Michigan FIRST Robotics teams are competing in the Michigan State Championship at Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, which starts today. This is the first time members of the...
View ArticleDirect Primary Care: A Better Way to Pay for Healthcare?
Watch TV shows, movies and more on Yahoo View, available now on iOS and Android. This kind of primary care allows patients to bypass insurance and pay a flat rate to see their doctor for basic...
View ArticleRobotics competition encourages more female engineers
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – Engineering continues to be a male-dominated field. Only 11 percent of working engineers in the U.S. are women and among women who earned engineering degrees, more than 30...
View ArticlePWNAGE robotics team heads to world championships
With its second regional competition win in a row, PWNAGE Robotics Team 2451 from St. Charles is heading to the FIRST Robotics Competition World Championships. The latest victory came at the FIRST...
View ArticleFacebook busts up international spam operation
While Facebook has spent significant time fighting fake news on its network, it continues to battle another plague to its social platform: Fake accounts. These are often used to spread low-quality...
View ArticleNew NSA leak may expose its bank spying, Windows exploits
A hacking group has released suspected U.S. government files that show the National Security Agency may have spied on banks across the Middle East. Numerous Windows hacking tools are also among the new...
View ArticleAmid Questions Over Its Culture, Uber Says Its Bookings Doubled in 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber’s corporate culture has been under fire. But the company is focusing on a different message for investors and employees: Business is soaring. The ride-hailing service, said on...
View ArticleThe Worst Hacks of 2017 — So Far
Last year, we saw cyberattacks on Mark Zuckerberg, Olympic athletes and the DNC. We don’t know what people or companies hackers will hit in 2017, but we don’t need to wait long for another reminder to...
View ArticleAirman provides special needs dentistry
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — A 96th Medical Group dentist goes beyond the usual check up with some of the dental clinic’s youngest patients. He specializes in medically fragile and special needs...
View ArticleIDG Capital to Deploy More Resources in Firms, Eyes Tech Assets
IDG Capital, which together with China Oceanwide Holdings Group recently bought tech publisher International Data Group for an estimated $1.5 billion, will also look to increase and extend its...
View ArticleRolling Robots co-founder shares how robotics impact students’ education
The use of robotics can be important in the education of children and teens —particularly in learning how to solve problems — according to co-founder of Rolling Robots, where students of various skill...
View ArticleLocal robotics team puts heart into championships
As “Chaser,” a 29x29x24, 118 pound robot, moves about the floor delivering gears to spin a propeller and shooting fuel missiles, it looks a bit like a miniature replica for a sci-fi film shoot that...
View ArticleLa Crosse hosts first robotics competition
Fifty high schools from six different states showcased their hard work this weekend. It is the first time the FIRST Robotics Regional Competition has been held in La Crosse. Robotics in the Coulee...
View ArticleRobert W. Taylor, whose early vision helped create the Internet, dies at 85
Robert W. Taylor, whose ideas for using computers as communication devices were considered visionary, and who fostered several major advances that contributed to the development of the Internet and...
View ArticleHacker documents show NSA tools for breaching global money transfer system
HONG KONG/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Documents and computer files released by hackers provide a blueprint for how the U.S. National Security Agency likely used weaknesses in commercially available...
View ArticleBrands see visual intelligence as key part of AI strategy
Ever since neural networks began their renewed renaissance in 2012, computer vision has been a ripe field of study and innovation for AI researchers and a fruitful area of applied AI for enterprises....
View Article'Skinny bundles' step up challenge to US Big Cable
Washington (AFP) – For years, US cable operators got rich by offering fat “bundles” of hundreds of channels and raising prices regularly for television consumers. Now the “skinny bundle” is disrupting...
View ArticleMike and Nicole’s Week in Tech: United’s Troubles and Burger King’s ‘Hack’
Each Saturday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at The New York Times, review the week’s news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the...
View ArticleApple Bites Into Self Driving Vehicles
Apple has taken a bite into the emerging autonomous vehicle sector. California’s DMV recently issued a permit to the tech company that allows them to test self-driving technologies in the state. Other...
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