Recent Discoveries and Breakthroughs

Curious to find out about recent discoveries and breakthroughs in health & medicine, science & space, technology, our environment and our living world? Interested in the latest research findings? Please visit us often to get the most interesting research news and updates.

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Google Keep Challenges Evernote

by dendory

Google Keep is a new product that the search giant introduced in order to compete with current note taking apps such as Evernote. But with Reader having been killed just a week ago, is Keep a keeper?

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Japanese Researchers Announce Breakthrough In Regenerative Therapy For Breast Cancer Patients

by Steve Levenstein

A Japanese medical research team employing stem cells mixed with patients' own fat has been able to regenerate up to 90 percent of tissue removed during breast cancer surgery. If adopted as a standard treatment protocol, the procedure could significantly affect the number of radical mastectomies performed and post-surgery prostheses required.

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Toshiba Launches New 4K TVs

by dendory

Toshiba introduces the new 9 Series TV sets, providing full 4K resolution, 3D support and Cloud TV. These sets are available in 58", 65" and 84" dimensions.

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Video Cracks Code to Apple’s Innovation

by Cornelius Fortune

How innovative is Apple, really? The "3 Ways Apple Actually Innovates" video takes a different approach to this question in little more than a minute.

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What Empathic Smartphones And Smart Cameras Tell Us About Ourselves

Will the Samsung Galaxy Camera be able to feel your mood?

by Cornelius Fortune

With the announcement of the Xpression, a new mood-sensing app, is the field wide open for advancements in mobile technology on a science fictional scale?

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Infrastructure Scaling: The NewsBlur Story

by dendory

With Google Reader shutting down, NewsBlur saw its daily users go from 1,500 to 50,000. They did not scale well, and now they posted some lessons learned from the event, and what others should know when they start a new online service.

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Making The Most Out Of Quirky.com

by dendory

Quirky.com is a great site aimed at inventors and something you can take advantage of to market your ideas into products, but not everything makes it to the production floor. How can you maximize your chances for your idea to become a product?

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Samsung Announces Galaxy S4

by dendory

Samsung introduced the Galaxy S4 today, an upgraded model to its very popular S3 from last year. There are better specs, new software offerings, but a fairly similar looking handset case. The S4 will be out this coming April.

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Robot Wheelchair Makes Walking Look Bad!

by Katie Gatto

Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System or ROPITS for short, a new robot wheelchair designed by the people have at Hitachi the system, which can be used in conjunction with a tablet or a smart phone, will enable users to get from point a to point b without having to plan every inch of the path manually.

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TeleSound Makes Sounds From Your Smartphone

by dendory

The TeleSound is a Kickstarter project which aims at extending your smartphone with sounds. Pairing with your phone or tablet using Bluetooth, it will allow you to send sound requests to the integrated speaker, for the amusement of your cat or kids.

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