[ad_1] Those services are already provided by the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, but users must dial a 10-digit number, 1-800-273-8255 (TALK). In 2018, Lifeline counselors answered over 2.2 million calls and 100,000 online chats. But the FCC’s report, which was mandated by the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of 2018, found that a 3-digit number […]
Category: medicine
Squishy Rubik’s Cube could help patients monitor their health
[ad_1] The team has goals other than creating a squishy toy in mind, though. Ultimately, the chemists want to be able to create tiles of smart soft materials that can show medical information when placed on a person’s skin. The material could be used in wearable sensors that change colors, for instance, when it detects […]
Russian rocket test explosion leads to radiation leak
[ad_1] Officials also ordered shipping in the nearby Dvina Bay region of the White Sea, near both the military facility where the explosion occurred and a nuclear submarine production facility. Rosatom’s statement didn’t say exactly what hardware was involved, but the New York Times pointed to clues that it might have been an experimental weapon. […]
Tomorrow’s bionic eyes will have ‘Predator’ vision
[ad_1] It’s called the Orion Visual Cortical Prosthesis System, and it’s been developed by Second Sight Medical Products. Like the Argus II before it, the Orion system consists of a small camera mounted on a pair of glasses to capture images, a video-processing unit to convert what the camera sees into electrical impulses the wearer […]
Save $300 on a Google Pixel 3
[ad_1] Google Pixel 3 (64GB) Street price: $800; deal price: $500 The Google Pixel 3 (64GB), our upgrade Android phone pick, has dropped to a new low of $500 in all three available finishes. If you’re looking for more memory, the 128GB version of the Pixel 3 is also discounted down to $600 from a […]
Researchers create ‘2D’ gold a million times thinner than a fingernail
[ad_1] The flakes are flexible, which means they could be used in bendable screens, electronic inks and transparent conducting displays, plus tests indicate that the material is 10 times more efficient as a catalytic substrate than the currently used gold nanoparticles. This means it could greatly increase the speed of medical diagnostic tests, as well […]
Google employee claims it discriminates against pregnant women
[ad_1] Of course, this isn ‘t the first time Google was accused of discrimination. The search giant recently paid $11 million to people who claimed they were denied jobs because of their ages; three women sued the company because they believe it pushed female workers towards lower-paying career trajectories; and thousands of workers walked out […]
32 million patient records were breached in the first half of 2019
[ad_1] The Protenus’ 2019 Mid-Year Breach Barometer Report found that 60 percent of all breaches were due to hacking, including the single largest breach. In that incident, hackers targeted a medical collections agency and obtained the data of roughly 20 million patients, including those who’d used LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics. Their data was found for […]
Facebook is inching closer to a think-to-type computer system
[ad_1] Brain-computer interface systems already exist, but require users to mentally select a letter at a time on a virtual keyboard, a process that tends to be very slow. The UCSF researchers, however, tried to use context to help the machines translate entire words and phrases. Researchers implanted electrical arrays on the surfaces of the […]
Scientists create contact lenses that zoom on command
[ad_1] The biomimetic lens are made of stretchy polymer films that respond to the electric signals generated by your eyes when they make a movement, such as blinking. Known as electrooculographic signals, humans are even capable of emitting the electric impulses when they’re sleeping. “Even if your eye cannot see anything, many people can still […]