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Amazon Echo will bring artificial intelligence into our lives much sooner than expected
By Mark Skilton, The Conversation From Business Insider What’s all the fuss about the voice-activated home speaker that Amazon is due to release in the UK and Germany in late September? This gadget has been available in the US for over…
Body implants
10 of the craziest things people have implanted in their bodies By Kristen V. Brown, Fusion From Business Insider Cyborgs are not science future; sophisticated chips and sensor implants that merge man with machine are already here. There are people…
An aspiring police officer who went undercover in a jail for 2 months describes why ‘violence is almost necessary’ behind bars
By Mark Abadi In jail, violence is always around the corner. Inmates strategically use fights to settle disputes and climb the political ladder. And if inexperienced inmates can’t adapt to their dangerous surroundings, they’ll live in constant fear of another…
This test could help thousands of cancer patients avoid chemotherapy
By Lydia Ramsey From Business Insider For patients facing a diagnosis of early stage breast cancer, the traditional course of treatment is typically surgery, followed by an often difficult course of chemotherapy to try to make sure the cancer doesn’t…
A woman with schizophrenia told us what it’s really like to live with incurable hallucinations
By Rafi Letzter From Business Insider When Rachel Star Withers was a child she saw demons everywhere. That was how she understood the specters that flitted through her room at night, moved things around, and made faces at her from the…
Kids favorite toys
Kids at every income level reveal their favorite toys By Gus Lubin From Business Insider If you want to understand the world, look at how people live. Toys are a good place to start. Dollar Street, a soon-to-launch project from…
How the Internet of Things will affect security & privacy
By Andrew Meola From Business Insider The Internet of Things is connecting more devices every day, and we’re headed for a world that will have 24 billion IoT devices by 2020. This growth carries several benefits, as it will change…
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An unusual way to deliver drugs could be a $29 billion market by 2030
By Lydia Ramsey From Business Insider A next generation of implantable eye treatments could change the way we treat eye conditions. And, according to a new report by Citi GPS, this experimental way to deliver eye care could turn into…
This might be the most detailed map of the human brain we’ve ever seen
By Erin Brodwin From Business Insider Imagine that the first map you ever saw of the United States was simply a rough outline of the country’s borders with only about half the state boundaries penciled in. That’s essentially the type of diagram…
US: A psychologist explains why the Orlando terror attack isn’t likely to change anyone’s opinion about gun control
By Shana Lebowitz From Business Insider House Democrats staged a sit-in last week demanding Republicans permit a vote on gun-control legislation. Days earlier, the Senate failed to pass four pieces of gun-control legislation that were proposed after 49 people were…
