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Self-Powered Pacemakers?

By Bracha Halperin

Unfortunately, the battery-free pacemaker is not ready to be used on humans just yet.

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Will Facebook Succeed In Reinventing Itself?

By Bracha Halperin

According to a 2017 study by the Royal Society for Public Health in the UK, Instagram is the worst social media app for young people’s mental health, followed closely by Snapchat.

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Reality: Virtual, Augmented, And Mixed (Part II)

By Bracha Halperin

For the future of VR, I expect prices to continue dropping and consumers to adopt products at home.

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Reality: Virtual, Augmented, And Mixed (Part I)

By Bracha Halperin

For example, with VR, students in Central Africa can explore the Eiffel Tower in France and pre-med students can interact with a life-size body.

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Why Isn’t My App Finished Yet?

By Bracha Halperin

The culprit can also be lack of time or a lack of experience necessary to create an initial comprehensive and accurate software plan.

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Preparing Food With Artificial Intelligence

By Bracha Halperin

If my own family couldn’t keep track of each other’s diets, I realized that restaurants and food brands must have a much more difficult time keeping up with food trends.

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Robotic Body Surrogates

By Bracha Halperin

Users employ a web-based augmented reality interface to remotely control a PR2 robot. The robot is controlled through eye tracking and head tracking.

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Treating Pain With Neuromodulation?

By Bracha Halperin

Will Sana’s pain relieving mask become a mainstay in the healthcare industry or a passing phenomenon? Only time will tell.

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Top 12 Must-Have Free Jewish Apps (Part II)

By Bracha Halperin

Some of the apps on this list have already gained prominence in the mainstream Jewish world. Others are still relatively new.

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Top 12 Must-Have Free Jewish Apps (Part I)

By Bracha Halperin

Some of the apps on this list have already gained prominence in the mainstream Jewish world. Others are still relatively new.

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Should Candidates Be On Social Media?

By Bracha Halperin

Social media has given people – including congressional and presidential candidates – an unfiltered platform, and no one has perhaps utilized it quite as effectively as President Trump.

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The HoloLens 2

By Bracha Halperin

HoloLens 2 is geared for enterprising customers. As such, Microsoft is allowing companies to customize their HoloLens to suit their industry and workers before purchase.

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Samsung's New Fold and Galaxy S10 Lineup

By Bracha Halperin

With this new array of different yet similar phones, Samsung fans might be wondering which one is best to order.

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The Future? – Immersion Neuroscience

By Bracha Halperin

The brain is not designed to accurately reveal its unconscious emotional state.

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The Future Sneaker: Nike Vs. Adidas

By Bracha Halperin

Previously, owning a pair of sneakers required little to no maintenance. Smart sneakers, however, need to be charged.

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Coming Our Way: Messenger, Instagram, And WhatsApp Integration

By Bracha Halperin

First off, merging user information from WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger will make Facebook even better at targeting ads – and a significant portion of Facebook’s revenue comes from ads.

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Beware: Drones Are Coming (Part II)

By Bracha Halperin

Even if regulations do “catch up” to recent technological innovations, technology as a whole is evolving at a rate that arguably exceeds the human ability to adapt.

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Drones Are Coming, But Fear Not

By Bracha Halperin

Why, for example, do Americans seem hesitant to embrace drones? Is it fear of technology eliminating jobs? Is it concern about privacy breaches?

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Artificial Intelligence May Help Cancer Patients

By Bracha Halperin

Researchers are hoping this AI tool can significantly improve cancer patients' quality of life.

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Welcome: The World’s First ‘Virtual Reality’ Laptop

By Bracha Halperin

It goes without saying that the augmented and virtual reality effects of the zSpace laptop are ground-breaking.

Electronics Today / Halacha & Hashkafa

A Revolution For Jewish Women: Technology Meets Halacha

By Rivkah Lambert Adler

Rabbi Fishel Jacobs of Kfar Chabad in Israel believes the Jewish world is experiencing a “family purity revolution.” He should know. Since 1998, Rabbi Jacobs has published five books on the laws of family purity. Today, he serves as a halachic advisor to four different websites, all designed to help women keep the mitzvah more […]

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The Kosher-For-Shabbos Lightbulb

By Bracha Halperin

Shabbulbs are about 40 watts – sufficient for reading, but if you wish to light up a larger room, you probably need several bulbs to. Shabbulb is also multi-voltage (110V-240V).

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Technology’s Effect On Children – One Mother’s Story

By Bracha Halperin

It took us a while to figure out that the things she was watching, while appropriate, were too complex for her to handle and subconsciously weighed down on her.

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Is Tech The Answer For Seizure Patients?

By Bracha Halperin

Once programmed, the RNS System monitors a patient’s brainwaves and is ready to provide treatment whenever it detects unusual activity that can lead to a seizure, even if the patient is sleeping.

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Network Speeds: How Fast Is Super Fast?

By Bracha Halperin

Some experts say it’ll be around 20 times faster than LTE and download speeds of 1GBps will become the norm.

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Taking Your Business To The Next Level

By Bracha Halperin

I’m a small business owner and I’m just so overwhelmed by the number of programs/applications available for small business owners.

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It’s Happening – Robots Are Replacing Human Workers

By Bracha Halperin

The robots will not deliver mail directly to each customer’s home. Rather, they will send customers notifications through an app.

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Is Christopher Reeve’s Dream Coming True?

By Bracha Halperin

Unlike those of previous studies, Courtine’s stimulations only targeted the precise location of the movement.

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Galaxy X’s Foldable Screen – Coming Your Way

By Bracha Halperin

In addition to having an Infinity Flex Display, the Galaxy X allows up to three apps to run simultaneously – a multi-tasker’s dream!

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IBM Unveils Tool To Fight Computer Bias

By Bracha Halperin

It’s not just humans who are biased. Apparently, computer algorithms are too. That's why IBM recently unveiled AI Fairness 360 (AIF360) – an artificial intelligence tool aimed at detecting bias in algorithms. AI Fairness 360 analyzes algorithms’ decisions and – more importantly – the reasoning behind them. It checks for unwanted bias in machine learning […]

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Instagram Unveils Anti-Bullying Tool

By Bracha Halperin

When posting a selfie, a shimmer of hearts floats across the screen and the user is encouraged to tag a friend to spread kindness.

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Google’s New Pixel 3 And Pixel 3 XL

By Bracha Halperin

The Pixel 3’s most notable and impressive features lie in the phone’s use of AI (artificial intelligence).

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How Much Do You Trust Facebook?

By Bracha Halperin

The Portal already has stiff competition from Google Home and Amazon Echo, although its video-calling technology gives it a unique twist to help differentiate it from other smart speaker devices.

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If You Launch It, They Will Come: ArtScroll On The iPad

By dvora

For the Siyum HaShas in MetLife Stadium, community leaders, security officials, and even dogs (K-9 units) spent months getting ready for the close to 100,000 in attendance on Wednesday afternoon. However, members of ArtScroll have been focusing on what happens after the celebration. In honor of the 13th daf yomi cycle, ArtScroll has begun to launch its newest edition of the Babylonian Talmud – a digitized version for the iPad.

Electronics Today / News Briefs

The Face That Launched A Thousand Apps: Yours

By Malkah Fleisher

Israeli startup Umoove will soon offer a gesture-recognition technology for mobile devices that will control and steer devices by reading gentle facial and head movements, according to a report by NoCamels.

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From Feet To Amot: A New Jewish Units App

By Yoni Glatt

During my yearly visits to Australia to visit my wife’s family, I must endure the brutal calculations involved in switching from the imperfect Imperial system to the maligned-by-Americans (but clearly more efficient) Metric system. Pounds become kilos, Fahrenheit becomes Celsius, and feet become meters. Calculations are involved every day – and I don’t have a mind for numbers.

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If I Only Had One Jewish App On My iPhone

By Yoni Glatt

This past week I saw a video preview of an upcoming iPod app that excited and inspired me to the point of near tears. It was for RustyBrick’s jaw-dropping ArtScroll Schottenstein Talmud app. Unfortunately that app won’t be out for another few months (but take the time to check out the preview at www.rustybrick.com), yet I realized after months of writing this column that I had yet to give the due attention to RustyBrick’s Siddur app.

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Seeing Israel Anywhere, Every Day

By Yoni Glatt

I haven’t been to Israel in six years. That might not sound like a lot of time to some people, but might sound like an eternity to others

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Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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