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Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons/Maria Joner) In his final days as the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama authorized a covert hacking operation to implant attack code in sensitive Russian networks. The revelation came in an 8,000-word article The Washington Post published Friday that recounted a secret struggle to punish the Kremlin for tampering […]
BREAST implants may impede an important medical test for the heart, a new study suggests. Daily Express :: Health Feed
SJ One Swedish rail line isn’t just tearing tickets, it’s also scanning microchips nestled beneath commuters’ skin. SJ, a state-owned rail line launched in 2000, recently announced that it would begin scanning the hands of people with certain biometric chips embedded in their skin to collect train fare. SJ estimates 200 people out of the estimated 2,000 […]
Enlarge / One of these things is a CIA implant dropper. (credit: From an original image by Scott Ackerman) WikiLeaks today dumped a smaller subset of documents from its “Vault 7” collection of files from a CIA software developer server. Yet again, these documents are more important from the perspective of WikiLeaks having them than […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has received reports of 9 deaths and more than 350 cases of a rare blood cancer linked to breast implants CBC | Health News
Doctors from Bradford Royal Infirmary have been selected to run the trial because of their pioneering cochlear implant operations on older people under local anaesthetic. The study is being launched to tie in with World Hearing Day today. Research suggests that general anaesthetics raise the chances of dementia and linked illnesses for elderly patients. So […]
PEOPLE aged 55 and over who suffer from deafness are to be tested to find if implants aimed at restoring hearing can help protect against dementia. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Humans are obsessed with sleep. We’ve not getting enough of it, and the tech world is flooded with wearables that confirm this fact. Now, scientists hope using activity monitors to study how and why animals sleep will help us get a better night’s rest. Professor Paul Manger from Wits University and his colleagues are using […]
John Scalzi’s science fiction novel Lock In predicts a near future where people with complete body paralysis can live meaningful, authentic lives thanks to (fictional) advances in brain-computer interfaces. A new study by researchers at Stanford University might be the first step towards such a reality. Using brain-computer interfaces (BCI) to help people with paralysis […]
Sveta Bilyalova demonstrated the technique, which Express.co.uk can reveal – with the help of a plastic surgeon – does in fact work. “What we need, we need two phones with a flash light. We put the phones under her shirt and turn off the light,” Sveta says in the video that was posted to Instagram. […]
