madhumithaa on Twitter Great #signalofchange where biohackers are fighting hard to make diabetes management more affordable, through yeast produced insulin – crucial to the lived experience of rising chronic illnesses….

After permission from regulators, Stanford Medical School is now testing an AI system to diagnose eye disease without ever accessing any personal details. The app utilizes technology from Oasis labs,…

A4i, a company based in Toronto, is developing an app to help patients with schizophrenia and psychosis prepare for everyday tasks as well as helping them to discern if sounds…

Can This Startup Cure Social Anxiety? This Bay Area company says its website can treat the debilitating mental illness-and clinical psychology doesn’t disagree. Though Joyable’s mission could grow to include…

In 2017 (as of November 5th) there have been 307 mass shooting events in the United States.

Dubai airport’s new virtual aquarium tunnel scans your face as you walk through it Passengers will no longer have to wait in line at security counters or pass through e-gates,…

Hackers aren’t so interested in your credit card data these days. That’s bad news Healthcare and government have overtaken the retail sector as most-targeted for data breaches, according to security…

UIDAI allows facial recognition for Aadhaar authentication New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Monday moved to enable facial recognition as an additional means of Aadhaar authentication….

Special operations veterans are not done serving. Transferring skills from military dive training, retired soldiers are responding to a different kind of planetary threat: the loss of critical ocean habitat. Force…

Darpa has become the world’s largest funder of gene drive research, amid military worries that the steep fall in cost of gene-editing increases the risk of rogue experimentation with bioweapons….

The Gates Foundation has developed an open source platform called Mojaloop to promote mobile finance in the developing world. This is a free software available for software developers and banks to adapt…

A researcher from the University of Southern California has demonstrated how a brain implant can be used to improve memory which could have a major effect on the treatment of…

A US-based initiative, Re-working Lunch, has been formed by approximately 100 leaders from across multiple sectors to tackle the impact of unhealthy school lunches throughout the nation. In the States, one…

A new study suggests that CRISPR might not work in humans. The Cas9 snipper proteins come from bacterial species to which humans have extensive immunity. The study found immunity levels…

In 2015, Japan’s government released its Orange plan, a package designed to tackle dementia. This includes the development of new drugs, regular home visits and supporting family caregivers. In particular,…

Sophia becomes the world’s first robot to be granted citizenship, by Saudi Arabia. Upon receiving Saudi citizenship, she said in an interview at the Future Investment Initiateive in Riyadh, “I am very…

A security robot is being used in San Francisco to deter homeless people from forming “tent cities”. The robot uses lasers, sensors and GPS to monitor the area, and alerts…

Researchers from Stanford University created a ‘flash organisation’ to work alongside designer Daniel Steinbock to produce his new card game called True Story. ‘Flash organisations are a new crowdsourcing technique that…

Researchers from Rhino Security Labs have shown that it is possible to hack Amazon’s Cloud Cam and turn it offline if you are within wifi range.

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Certain eatery districts in Singapore such as @savourworldsg will now only accept cashless payments. What does this mean for the future of money, the way we live, and ensuring equal…