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It's a Wonderful WiFi
Medical Design Technology - 18 Dec 2018 01:35
Blog It's that magical time of year when family and friends gather 'round a crackling fireplace, the smell of homemade cookies fill the air, and an annual tradition is renewed when Frank Capra's classic It's a Wonderful ...
Apple Strikes Deal to Produce New 'Peanuts' Content
Medical Design Technology - 18 Dec 2018 01:31
News Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the "Peanuts" crew will have a new home on Apple's streaming service. Contributed Author: Associated Press Topics: Video
Comcast Adds YouTube 4K Content to X1
Medical Design Technology - 18 Dec 2018 01:28
News YouTube's catalog of 4K content is now accessible on Comcast's Xfinity X1 platform, the cable giant announced Monday. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Cable
Monitoring Lung Function at Home In Teens With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Medical Design Technology - 18 Dec 2018 01:10
News A new study in the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases describes the at-home use of a child-compatible, hand-held device (HHD) that makes monitoring pulmonary function in teens more convenient and provides the data ne...
New Study Finds That Surgeons Under Stress Make More Mistakes in the Operating Room
Medical Design Technology - 18 Dec 2018 01:46
News A new study reveals that during stressful moments in the operating room, surgeons make up to 66 percent more mistakes on patients. Using a technology that captured the electrical activity of a surgeon's heart, resea...
Low Noise, Low Power Consumption, Fast Transient LDO Regulator for BGA SSD Used in Mobile Devices
Medical Design Technology - 18 Dec 2018 01:32
Product Announcement MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor platform solutions, today announced that it has released a low noise, low power consumption, ...
Study Suggests CBD May Worsen Glaucoma, Raise Eye Pressure
Medical Design Technology - 18 Dec 2018 01:27
News A study from researchers at Indiana University has found that a major chemical component in the substance appears to worsen the primary underpinning of the disease: a rise in pressure inside the eye... Contributed A...
Tiny Implantable Device Short-Circuits Hunger Pangs, Aids Weight Loss
Medical Design Technology - 18 Dec 2018 01:20
News More than 700 million adults and children worldwide are obese, according to a 2017 study. Now, a new battery-free, easily implantable weight-loss devices developed by engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Scandal-plagued CBS Grants $20M to 18 Women's Rights Groups
Medical Design Technology - 18 Dec 2018 01:14
News CBS on Friday pledged to give $20 million to 18 organizations dedicated to eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace as the network tries to recover from a scandal that led to the ouster of its top executive, L...
MuSCAT2 to Find Earth-Like Planets in the TESS Era
Medical Design Technology - 18 Dec 2018 00:41
News A Japan-Spain team has developed a powerful 4-color simultaneous camera named MuSCAT2 for the 1.52-m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez at the Teide Observatory, Canaries, Spain. The instrument aims to find... Contributed A...
Toward Brain-Like Computing: New Memristor Better Mimics Synapses
Medical Design Technology - 18 Dec 2018 00:35
News A new electronic device can developed at the University of Michigan can directly model the behaviors of a synapse, which is a connection between two neurons. For the first time, the way that neurons share or... Cont...
It's Probably OK to Eat Raw Cookie Dough -- As Long As You're Smart About It
Discover - 18 Dec 2018 00:21
For many people, the holiday ritual of baking cookies isn't complete without also eating some of the raw dough. In my family, questions like "Who gets to lick the beaters?" and "Can I grab a piece of dough?" were always ...
Executive's Arrest, Security Worries Stymie Huawei's Reach
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2018 23:41
News While a Huawei executive faces possible U.S. charges over trade with Iran, the Chinese tech giant's ambition to be a leader in next-generation telecoms is colliding with security worries abroad. Contributed Author: ...
3GPP 3 Month Delay of 5G Standard Won't Affect Initial Deployments
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2018 23:37
News 3GPP during a plenary meeting last week in Sorrento, Italy, decided to shift the delivery schedule for the next wave of 5G specifications by three months, but group leader Balazs Bertenyi explained that the move won...
Gift Guide: Some Tech Gadgets That Actually Fill a Real Need
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2018 23:32
News Sometimes you can sense that tech products are striving to solve problems that are manufactured by their manufacturers. Smartwatches, for instance, have long been a nifty idea -- but they've offered few tangible ben...
UCF Researchers Develop Method to Hide Images and Information in Plain Sight
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2018 23:29
News What is real is not always as it appears. University of Central Florida researchers have found a way to hide information on materials and only make it visible to a person using the right tech. "We found we can creat...
Silicon Valley East: Google Plans $1B Expansion in New York
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2018 23:29
News Silicon Valley is becoming Silicon Nation. Google announced Monday it will spend more than $1 billion to build a new office complex in New York City that will allow the internet search giant to double the number of ...
New Property Revealed in Graphene Could Lead to Better Performing Solar Panels
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2018 23:24
News An international research team, co-led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered a new mechanism for ultra-efficient charge and energy flow in graphene, opening up opportunities... Co...
Keysight Technologies, MediaTek Collaborate to Accelerate End-to-End Performance Validation of 5G Multimode Devices
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2018 23:19
News Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced that the company's 5G virtual drive testing (VDT) Toolset is helping MediaTek, a leading semiconductor company, to accelerate end-to-end data throughput performance... Contribut...
Pressure Tuned Magnetism Paves the Way for Novel Electronic Devices
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2018 20:25
News Advances in the technology of material growth allow fabricating sandwiches of materials with atomic precision. The interface between the two materials can sometimes exhibit physical phenomena which do not... Contrib...
Data Storage Using Individual Molecules
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2018 20:23
News Researchers from the University of Basel have reported a new method that allows the physical state of just a few atoms or molecules within a network to be controlled. It is based on the spontaneous self-organization...
New Type of Low-Energy Nanolaser That Shines in All Directions
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2018 20:20
News Researchers in Eindhoven have developed a new type of low-energy, nanoscale laser that shines in all directions. The key to its omnidirectional light emission is the introduction of something that is usually... Cont...