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…

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,…

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….

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…

Chinese authorities have announced a system which will score its citizens’ ‘social credit’. The Government’s goal is to connect all citizens to an obligatory social credit system by 2020, which will…

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Dr. Atul Gawande, a prominent surgeon, teacher, entrepreneur,  public figure, and staff writer for The New Yorker, has been nominated CEO of an Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway funded…

For the first time, Singapore’s Ministry of Health has organised a national Citizens Jury, in the hope of tackling diabetes. One in nine Singaporeans has diabetes, while three in 10…

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….

“Toxic air lowers children’s IQ and memory, affects their test scores and triggers neurological-behavioural problems such as anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and development delays, according to a new Unicef…

This house was 3D-printed in just 24 hours As we start to 3D-print everything – including houses, of all things – it’s pretty impressive that a company built one in…

Great #signalsofchange conversion:   This 18-Year-Old Makes Innovative Prosthetics From Recycled Plastic | Fast Company Aaron Westbrook was born with only one hand. Several years ago, while a freshman at…

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…

Amazon unveils $250 AI camera and machine learning tools for businesses Amazon wants companies to take advantage of artificial intelligence – and, more importantly, it wants to sell them the…

The iPal robot from Avatar Mind can sing, dance, talk, play rock paper scissors and reportedly entertain children for hours at a time. It can also provide a remote video…

IMF predicts the end of banking – what does this mean for the urban gig economy?   IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency | Jeffrey…

Unicef has recently launched a pilot project called Unicef’s Game Chaingers, which recruits gamers to use the processing power of their computers to mine cryptocurrency Ether, to aid Syrian children. …

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…

Miss Kaya – Build Wealth Simply We tend to take the backseat when it comes to finances and building wealth. Even more so in the Asian context, we often prioritise…

India is once again in the grip of Nipah virus, the third recorded outbreak since 2001, with 11 deaths in Kerala confirmed so far. The natural host for the virus is…