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Brazilian Military Faces Stiff Questions About Purchase of Penis Implants
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Brazilian Military Faces Stiff Questions About Purchase of Penis Implants

By Noor Al-Sibai

He Jiankui, the scientist who gained wide notoriety for genetically modifying two human babies in 2018, has been released from prison.
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Scientist Who Genetically Modified Human Babies Released From Prison

By Jon Christian

Scientists have created a bizarre magnetic slime that can be remotely controlled via a magnetic field, New Scientist reports.
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Scientists Create Robot to Put Inside Your Body That Looks Like, Um

By Victor Tangermann

A 34-year-old paralyzed man, who even lost the ability to move his eyes due to ALS disease, is able to communicate again through a brain implant.
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Scientists Say Brain Implant Let Completely Paralyzed Man Communicate Again

By Victor Tangermann

Recipients of bionic eyes from Second Sight are starting to go blind after the company behind the technology stopped supporting their products.
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Bionic Eye Patients Are Going Blind Again After Manufacturer Decides They’re Obsolete

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of researchers gave sheep vastly improved vision, using bionic eyes surgically implanted behind their retinas. The same could work in humans.
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Bionic Eyes Give Sheep Sight, Heading to Humans Next

By Victor Tangermann

A new study details how researchers have used electrical implants connected to a smartphone app to help Michel Roccati walk again after a spinal injury.
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Spine Implants Allow Paralyzed Man to Control Legs Using App

By Noor Al-Sibai

Exit International, a non-profit dedicated to assisted suicide advocacy, has developed a 3D-printed suicide capsule dubbed Sarco.
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Assisted-Suicide Chamber Approved by Authorities in Switzerland

By Tony Ho Tran

A company that sells "lasso guns" to cops is working on ways to get its firearm into schools and medical institutions.
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Startup Trying to Sell Lasso Gun to Capture Unruly Kids In Schools

By Noor Al-Sibai

More people are getting injured using virtual reality headsets than ever before because, well, more people are buying them than ever before. 
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Virtual Reality Users Keep Suffering Horrible Injuries

By Noor Al-Sibai

Manuel Zahn and Armaghan Ahmad Khan published research on their 3D camera and haptic feedback sleeve that will help people who are blind or have low vision.
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New Device Lets People Who Are Blind “See” in Infrared

By Lonnie Lee Hood

IBM is putting up Watson Health for sale once again. The buyer could potentially affect millions of patients and government healthcare strategies.
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Remember IBM’s Amazing Watson AI? Now It’s Desperately Trying to Sell It Off

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Australian brain computer interface company Synchron allowed a 62-year-old man with ALS to turn his thoughts directly into tweets.
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Man With ALS Tweets Using Brain Implant That Translates Thoughts Into Text

By Victor Tangermann

Nuclear experts in the Netherlands are warning against "anti-5G" pendants that some are wearing to ward off harmful frequencies, they say, are being emitted by 5G towers.
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Experts: Stop Wearing Radioactive “Anti-5G” Necklaces, Idiots

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are developing a lifesaving automatic Narcan injector that may bring harm reduction into the world of medtech.
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Wearable for Opioid Users Injects Narcan If You Overdose

By Noor Al-Sibai

This Is the Science of Pleasure
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This Is the Science of Pleasure

By Foster Kamer

What if scientists gene-hacked humans, to be more affectionate, amorous and generally happy -- much like our distant cousins the bonobos?
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Could We Gene Hack Ourselves to Be Blissed Out Sex Maniacs, Like Our Distant Cousins the Bonobos?

By James Anderson

Experts say that neural implants that can deliver pleasure directly to our brains are coming soon. The question is what it will mean for us when they do.
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What Are the Ethics of an Implant That Delivers Pleasure Directly Into Your Brain?

By Dan Robitzski

In spite of running a healthtech company, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes apparently didn't understand how prostates work.
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We’re Losing It at Elizabeth Holmes’ Excuse for Why Theranos Results Made No Sense

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers at the Stanford University say that they were able to treat depression in their patients by stimulating their brains with magnets.
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Stanford Scientists Say Brain Magnets Can Relieve Depression

By Tony Ho Tran

Taiwan has announced it’s created a battery-powered exoskeleton suit that can allow its soldiers to run faster and carry heavy objects with ease.
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Taiwan Builds Exoskeleton to Give Soldiers Super Strength

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers at Stanford School of Medicine developed a scanner that can recognize the user's unique "anal print" for a longitudinal record of their health.
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Scientists Working on Toilet That Identifies You by Your Butthole

By Victor Tangermann

In an incredible new Wired video, tech journalist Brent Rose had an incredible time testing out a powered exoskeleton built by Roam Robotics.
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Watch a Guy With Bad Knees Get Superpowers With a Powered Exoskeleton

By Victor Tangermann

Aubrey de Grey, a prominent scientist trying to expand the human lifespan, has been accused by multiple women of a disturbing pattern of sexual harassment.
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Anti-Aging Personality Aubrey de Grey Accused of Sexual Harassment

By Dan Robitzski

A medical device for heart failure called the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device likely contributed to thousands of deaths, and the FDA didn't step in.
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Defective Heart Pump Appears Have Killed Thousands of Patients

By Dan Robitzski

What would happen if you threw all 7.88 billion humans on Earth into one galactic blender and extracted the resulting goo into a sphere?
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Disturbing Simulation Shows What Would Happen if You Blended Up Every Living Human

By Victor Tangermann

A new study shows that robotic exoskeletons may not be as beneficial as initially thought due to unnecessary strain they place on wearers' brains.
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Exoskeletons Are Causing Problems With Wearers’ Brains, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Juul paid the American Journal of Health Behavior $51,000 to have the entire May/June issue filled with 11 studies funded by the company.
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Juul Paid a Medical Journal to Run a Bunch of Pro-Vaping Studies

By Victor Tangermann

New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely
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New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to an array of electrodes implanted in their brains, two monkeys were able to "see" and recognize individual shapes — without using their eyes.
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Neuralink Co-Founder Leaves Company For Unknown Reasons

By Jon Christian

Space Force chief scientist Joel Mozer says that the military should develop augmented supersoldiers in order to stay competitive with other countries.
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Space Force Chief Scientist: “Human Augmentation” Is Now Necessary

By Dan Robitzski

California-based exoskeleton manufacturer SuitX is betting its technology will soon go mainstream — with exoskeletons being sold at every big box store.
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Exoskeleton Maker Says Powered Suits Could Soon Be for Sale at Home Depot

By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink's new demo isn't exactly groundbreaking to many, with some arguing the underlying technology has been around for decades.
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Expert: New Neuralink Demo is Basically Tech From the Early 2000s

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's Neuralink has shown off an impressive new feat: a nine year old macaque called Pager playing a game of pong only using the signals in its brain.
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Neuralink Releases Video of Monkey Playing Pong With Its Mind

By Victor Tangermann

A new smartphone app called Lumenate promises to alter your consciousness, something akin to an LSD trip, using flickering lights.
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New App Claims to Make You Trip Like You’re on LSD

By Victor Tangermann

A scientist working on an artifiical placenta that provides oxygen for babies born prematurely says it may be ready for human experiments in five years.
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Artificial Placentas for Human Babies Coming Within Five Years, Scientist Says

By Dan Robitzski

A group of 11,000 patients across England who have experienced symptoms of bowel cancer are lining up to receive a drug capsule with a camera inside of it.
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Thousands of Patients Are Swallowing Tiny Pill-Cameras to Look for Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists studying how sex chromosomes are linked to differences in the brain has to tread lightly, lest their work be misrepresented.
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Expert: In the Future, Spine Implants May Cause Orgasms on Demand

By Tony Ho Tran

"Wolverine," a top-secret project by the Alphabet-owned moonshot company X, is building devices that grant superhuman hearing.
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Secret Alphabet Project “Wolverine” Aims to Give People Superhuman Hearing

By Dan Robitzski

A company Brain Scientific is developing an "e-tattoo" that can be injected under the skin in epilepsy patients and scan their brains for looming seizures.
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This Startup Wants to Tattoo Brain-Reading Electrodes on Your Skull

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers have come up with a skin patch that can track blood pressure, heart rate, as well as levels of glucose, alcohol, and caffeine.
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This Skin Patch Can Detect Alcohol and Caffeine in Your Blood

By Victor Tangermann

To prevent the spread of COVID-19 across its facilities, NASA is handing out Fitbit devices to 1,000 of its employees, including 150 astronauts.
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NASA Is Using Fitbits to Prevent COVID Spread Among Astronauts

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk hinted on Twitter that his neural implant company Neuralink may be able to start human research at some point this year.
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Neuralink May Start Human Implants Later This Year, Elon Musk Says

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a neural implant they can both control and recharge remotely, cutting down on the need for battery-changing surgeries.
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Remote Controlled Neural Implant Controls Rats’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

After a study found that an iPhone can shut down an implantable defibrillator by being near it, Apple is recommending to keep it at least 6 inches away.
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Apple: Keep Your New iPhone At Least 6 Inches Away From Pacemaker

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study published last week, an iPhone 12 can interfere with a pacemaker just by placing one close to the patient's heart.
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An iPhone 12 Can Temporarily Shut Down Implantable Defibrillators

By Victor Tangermann

Residents in Shenyang, China are being tested for COVID-19 by a plastic-wrapped robotic arm that is being remotely controlled from the next room.
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China Is Using Robots to Administer COVID Tests

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is reportedly developing a device, codenamed "Brahms" that uses radar to track your breathing and monitor for sleep apnea.
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New Alexa Device Scans Your Body Using Radar

By Dan Robitzski

Israeli biotech company Nanocare claims to have created a gun that can spin out "Spider-Man"-like webs that can cover burns and wounds.
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Scientists Invent Gun That Shoots “Skin Substitute” onto Burn Victims

By Victor Tangermann

A new nanomaterial biosensor can spot coronavirus antibodies — and track whether the vaccine is working — in ten seconds.
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Nanomaterial System Detects Coronavirus Antibodies In Just Seconds

By Dan Robitzski

Ultrasensitive COVID-19 tests based on the popular gene-editing technique CRISPR could be just around the corner, as IEEE Spectrum reports.
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CRISPR-Based COVID-19 Tests Could Work in Just 5 Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

A French military ethics committee just approved the military's plan to begin developing supersoldiers and keep pace with other nations already doing so.
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France Says It’s Working on Bionic Supersoldiers Because Everybody Else Is Doing It

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to an array of electrodes implanted in their brains, two monkeys were able to "see" and recognize individual shapes — without using their eyes.
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New Device Sends Images Directly Into Monkeys’ Brains

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre device called the ClearMate reportedly makes people sober up three times faster by making them hyperventilate alcohol out of their systems.
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New Device Sobers You Up By Sucking the Alcohol Out of Your Breath

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at Facebook are investigating if they can use augmented reality to allow people with hearing loss to hear another person in loud environments.
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Facebook Wants to Give You Superhuman Hearing Using AR Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

A new test made out of a sheet of graphene could make kidney disease antibodiy diagnostics vastly more accessible and affordable.
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Doctors Use Graphene to Invent Cheap, Easy Test for Kidney Disease

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists developed new wearable sensors that can be manufactured directly onto someone's skin — without burning the recipient in the process.
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New Wearables Can Be Printed Directly Onto Skin

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers from Monash University in Melbourne is preparing to implant a bionic eye as part of the world's first human clinical trials.
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Doctors Are Preparing to Implant the World’s First Human Bionic Eye

By Victor Tangermann

An open-source hearing aid built using off-the-shelf parts could slash the price of otherwise prohibitively expensive hearing aids to a single dollar.
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Researchers Invent $1 Hearing Aid

By Victor Tangermann

During its mid-September event — or live stream — Apple has announced that its brand new Apple Watch Series 6 will be able to measure blood oxygen levels.
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The Next Apple Watch Will Track Your Blood Oxygen Level

By Victor Tangermann

But not everybody was impressed with Neuralink's recent demo. To many experts, the demo seems to have raised far more questions than it was able to answer.
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Neuroscientist: There Was a Huge Problem With Neuralink’s Demo

By Victor Tangermann

On Friday evening, SpaceX and Tesla CEO used a live event to release a number of rare updates about his secretive other startup, Neuralink.
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Elon Musk: We’ve Already Implanted Neuralink in Live Pigs

By Jon Christian

Your smartphone is able to tell if you've had one too many drinks according to a new study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
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Oh Great, Now Your Smartphone Can Tell If You’re Drunk

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists thinks it's cracked the code for developing electronics that can be embedded in someone's body without causing scarring along the way.
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Doctors Want to Put Chips In Your Body to Monitor Tumors

By Dan Robitzski