New crowdfunding marketing campaign wants to deliver Amazon’s Alexa to smartwatches

Amazon hasn’t announced any plans to make its own smartwatch, but a brand new Indiegogo campaign is promising the following–exceptional factor. CoWatch claims to be the ”global’s first Amazon Alexa integrated smartwatch.” similar to the Amazon Echolinked speaker, CoWatch will

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Angiogenesis factor found to promote three age-related diseases of the eye

A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigator has found that increased expression of the angiogenic factor VEGF-A promotes three common aging-related eye conditions – both versions of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and also cataracts – in an animal model. While VEGF-A

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Microsoft Created a Twitter Bot to Learn From Users. It Quickly Became a Racist Jerk.

Damien Meyer | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft set out to learn about “conversational understanding” by creating a bot designed to have automated discussions with Twitterusers, mimicking the language they use. What could go wrong? If you guessed, “It will

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Stem cell progeny tell their parents when to turn on

Super-sonic signal: A signal from Transit-Amplifying Cells (TACs) activates stem cells in the hair follicle, researchers have found. Both types of cells appear in green (top), with TACs clustered lower down. The researchers identified the signal as Sonic Hedgehog. In

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