Medical News
Disney Takes Control of Hulu, Comcast Extends License for NBCU Content
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 20:42
News Hulu operations are in the sole hands of Disney effective immediately, and the entertainment giant can gain control of Comcast's 33 percent ownership interest starting in 2024. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: M...
Verizon's NB-IoT Network is Live Nationwide
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 20:44
News Verizon's initial entry-level NB-IoT plan offers 50KB of data for $1 per month, with data sharable across other NB-IoT devices on the same plan. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Carriers
Tuesdays with Roger: Sprint Earnings and Apple's App Store Troubles
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 17:28
Videos On this week's episode Recon Analytics' Roger Entner dives into Sprint's quarterly earnings and implications for the pending T-Mobile merger implications, plus the FCC blocks China Mobile and an antitrust suit cou...
WhatsApp Discovers Spyware that Infected with a Call Alone
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 16:01
News Spyware crafted by a sophisticated group of hackers-for-hire took advantage of a flaw in the popular WhatsApp communications program to remotely hijack dozens of phones, the company said late Monday. Contributed Aut...
App Delivers Diagnostic Lab Results with Higher Turnaround and Better Reliability
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 16:00
News SystemOne launched Aspect Reporter, an Android app designed to report diagnostic lab results back to clinicians, while also confirming patient links to treatment... Staff Author: Tierney King Topics: Medical Design ...
New Approach Shows Regeneration of Severely Damaged Lungs
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 16:00
Videos Columbia Engineering and Vanderbilt researchers are first to demonstrate in a clinically relevant model that severely damaged lungs can be regenerated to meet transplantation criteria; could lead to more lungs ava...
AI Could Prevent Unneeded Tests in Patients with Stable Chest Pain
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 16:00
News Artificial intelligence (AI) could prevent unnecessary diagnostic tests in patients with stable chest pain, according to research presented today at ICNC 2019. A decision support system saved one hour of testing per...
To the Beat of Your Own Cardboard Drum
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 16:00
Videos Cardboard is fun for making playhouses and Batmobiles, but they're quite self-destructive and don't last too long. Now, Signal Snowboards is redesigning cardboard to create a working drum kit... Staff Author: Tier...
Electric Cars: Current Trends Make for a Shocking Change
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 16:00
Article While vehicle manufacturers invest in research, authorities are working to improve charging infrastructure. The day when electric cars dominate the passenger transport market no longer seems quite so distant... C...
Ford's Spare-Part Robot Deliverer Frees 40-Employee Hours Daily
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 15:04
Videos Ford's self-driving robot nicknamed "Survival" can be found at one of their manufacturing plants in Valencia, Spain, delivering spare parts to human workers. It's been programmed to navigate the plant's layout... ...
Museum Digitally Resurrects Salvador Dalí with the Help of AI
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 15:02
Videos Salvador Dalí lives...in a digital form. The famous Spanish surrealist painter has been recreated as a simulation for the The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. Known as the "Dalí Lives" experience, visitors.....
AI Must Seem Unobtrusive to be Accepted as Part of Clinical Decision Making
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 15:00
News Physicians making life and death decisions about organ transplants, cancer treatments or heart surgeries typically don't give much thought to how artificial intelligence might help them. And that's how researchers a...
Robots Shoot for the Moon in MIT's Annual 2.007 Competition
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 14:52
News In their historic lunar mission 50 years ago, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong collected and returned to Earth more than 48 pounds of lunar material, including 50 moon rocks that researchers... Co...
103rd AW Leads Innovation with First Virtual Reality Loadmaster Training System
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 14:40
News Loadmasters at the 103rd Airlift Wing helped develop the first Virtual Loadmaster Training System, that recently became fully operational at Bradley Air National Guard Base, East Granby, Connecticut. The VLTS... Con...
Advancement in Driverless Aircraft Could Direct the Future of Drones, Flight
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 14:38
News Billions of dollars are being spent by aviation giants and aerospace startups to create driverless flying vehicles that can meet the growing need for rapid and flexible travel and delivery. Anyone who has tried... C...
Smallest Pixels Ever Created Could Light up Color-Changing Buildings
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 14:34
News The smallest pixels yet created - a million times smaller than those in smartphones, made by trapping particles of light under tiny rocks of gold - could be used for new types of large-scale flexible displays, big.....
How Acoustics Detected Artillery in WWI
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 14:34
News During World War I, William Lawrence Bragg led a team of engineers in the development of an acoustic method to locate enemy artillery, work that was so successful that it was soon used widely throughout... Contribut...
TuffDrive M.2 USB Solid-State Drives
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 14:34
Product Announcement The Virtium TuffDrive M.2 USB SSDs feature the M.2 form factor and USB 3.1, enabling efficient, secure data storage in systems without the SATA interface. The drives bring high-endurance, low-power.....
Locating a Shooter from the First Shot via Cellphone
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 14:32
News In the past several decades, militaries have worked hard to develop technologies that simultaneously protect infantry soldiers' hearing and aid in battlefield communication. However, these advanced Tactical... Contr...
OmniVision and GEO Semiconductor Partner on RGB-IR Solution for Automotive Cabin Monitoring Systems
Medical Design Technology - 14 May 2019 14:30
Product Announcement OmniVision Technologies, Inc. and GEO Semiconductor Inc. announced a joint solution for capturing and processing high-quality color (RGB) and infrared (IR) automotive interior images, day and night, ...
When a Woman's Personality Shifts Dramatically, Doctors Race to Keep Up
Discover - 14 May 2019 12:00
A woman’s sudden mania, odd sexual behavior and furious note-taking don’t add up.
Early term infants less likely to breastfeed
EurekAlert! - 14 May 2019 06:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new, prospective study provides evidence that 'early term' infants (those born at 37-38 weeks) are less likely than full-term infants to be breastfeed within the first ...