Sentences with phrase «for brains the technology»

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One professor of management at Beijing Normal University expressed his concerns about exploiting workers» brains for profit and the inability of workers to say no to using the technology because of their relatively weak position.

The project, dubbed Healthcare NeXT, will serve as a brain hub for producing new health technologies.

While some companies like Tesla already offer semi-autonomous technology — where the driver can take their hands off the wheel for brief periods of time — it is likely to be several years before people can turn over the majority of the driving to the «brains» in their vehicle.

Because while the ideas are grand, and the technology impressive, I'm concerned that we as a society simply aren't ready for always - on computers that pump information as close to our brains as possible.

«We're building an empathy brain for technology,» she explains, «because right now, technology does not understand the human experience.

In 2016, Musk founded Neuralink, which is trying to find a way for computers to interact directly with the human brain, and the Boring Company, which is building tunnels to transport people and cargo using another proposed new technology — electric sleds.

Usually, Facebook takes every chance to obfuscate this point: Last year's F8 conference, for example, was as much about augmented reality and brain - typing technology as it was about improvements to its existing services.

While it has shown promise for some types of tumors and become standard of care for others, researchers are just beginning to explore how different immunotherapy technologies can be applied to brain cancer.

After 10 years of working on a surgically implanted pacemaker for the brain (the Neuropace, which is now used to treat epilepsy), they turned their attention to less invasive technology.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

In the last year, the technology long used by researchers to measure brain activity has become affordable enough for some toy makers to incorporate it into their toys and video games.

Toronto, December 10, 2009 — Brain - controlled games are among 2009's hottest holiday toys, but the minds behind Canadian upstart and MaRS client InteraXon have been pushing the frontier of brainwave technology through their engaging products and events for years.

Brain - controlled games are among 2009's hottest holiday toys, but the minds behind Canadian upstart and MaRS client InteraXon have been pushing the frontier of brainwave technology through their engaging products and events for years.

And in Canada, InteraXon is at the head of the pack when it comes to developing innovative applications for the brain - computer interface technology.

At that time the technology of transplant surgery was beginning to make progress, and some people suspected that the desire to establish in law a concept of brain death was motivated only by the wish to obtain organs for transplant before those organs had deteriorated (as they will rapidly when heart and lung activity fail).

Capsugel is also using DUOCAP technology to extend the market potential of on - trend curcumin, with new line extensions now made possible by combining the high bioavailability of Capsugel's Licaps ® technology - enabled curcumin formulations and specific ingredients for immunity, bone, joint, brain and gut health.

After bagging a European patent for its taste cell technology to develop natural sweeteners, German biotech company Brain is turning its attention to bitterness and salt reduction.

Environmental technology is no longer a hare - brained idea for hippies.

(As anyone who has been visiting MomsTEAM's Concussion Safety Center for the past twelve years knows, science and technology have yet to come up with a way to prevent concussions; the most we can realistically hope to do at this point is a better job of identifying concussions when they occur and managing them in such a way as to keep the recovery time to a minimum and to keep kids from returning before their brains have fully healed so as to minimize the risk of serious, long - term effects, or even, in rare cases, death).

You have probably heard a number of rumors about the effects of technology on your health; that having a cell phone next to your head can cause brain cancer, for example, or that pregnant women shouldn't stand near a microwave that is running because it may harm the fetus.

She has received international media coverage, including Nightline, Good Morning America, the Today Show, CNN and NPR, for her ideas about the impact of technology, media and culture on children's brain development and learning.

While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without using their helmets.

You can either choose to labor at home and have a much higher chance of being that heartbroken woman outside the NICU for weeks praying desperately that medical technology and a team of specialists will keep your baby alive and as minimally brain damaged as possible, or you can have a higher chance of having a 4 inch scar somewhere nobody will never see.

Launching in fall 2013, the NFL, Under Armour and GE will invite proposals for new materials and technologies that can protect the brain from traumatic injury and new tools for tracking head impacts in real time.

«Brain Gym requires little additional training for the classroom teacher, no testing, no technology, and it enhances (rather than replaces) current curriculum.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig found out that the new fitness technology called Jymmin makes us less sensitive to pain.

The pairing of neuroscience and computer technology is leading to once unimaginable treatments for those with severe paralysis or brain injuries that impact speech, opening paths to restore mobility and lost communication, according to a congressional presentation on neurotechnology and the military.

«Nana technology» could compensate for failing memories among people with Alzheimer's disease, amnesia and other difficulties by taking over some of the brain work

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

«Our findings can help guide the development of technologies to more effectively incorporate DHA into food and exploit this pathway to maximize the potential for improved nutritionals to improve brain growth and function.

Although we have technology that can measure general brain activity, we have no method for assessing or capturing our individual thoughts and dreams.

Yanik's lab is currently using this technology to find delivery vehicles that can carry biologics across the blood - brain barrier — a very selective barrier that makes it difficult for drugs or other large molecules to enter the brain through the bloodstream.

Neuroscientists Timothy Buschman and Earl Miller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for instance, have found two types of attention in two separate regions of the brain.

The potential for mind - boosting drugs and technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

«Steep funding cuts for the federal health agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases, new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in gene therapy, new technologies for understanding the brain, and treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»

Determining the number of people who stand to benefit from the technology is more difficult because different people suffer from different degrees of blindness, but it's fair to say that candidates for Pezaris's implants are more likely to be those who are totally blind, whether from birth or due to a traumatic brain injury.

This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

«Physical activity and aerobic fitness are known to have beneficial effects on the underlying structures and functions of the brain,» said Barbey, a member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illinois.

«Man with quadriplegia employs injury bridging technologies to move again — just by thinking: First recipient of implanted brain - recording and muscle - stimulating systems reanimates limb that had been stilled for 8 years.»

With TMS, says Ed Boyden, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research in Cambridge, «You can always stimulate deep neurons but you stimulate superficial neurons as well.»

Other researchers have used optogenetics to transmit artificial skin sensations into the brains of mice, but Ko plans to investigate other technologies to find a technique that's best suited for his lab's e-skin.

The technology still has a lot of obstacles to overcome — the need for digital imaging that can adequately substitute for normal vision and the risk of infection resulting from brain surgery, to name two — but success could have a life - altering impact on the tens of millions of people worldwide suffering from impaired vision.

«The project's goal is to accelerate the development of technologies for mapping the brain's circuitry in animal models, specifically in the marmoset monkey, whose neural circuits are much closer to human compared with rodent models, and to connect the results to the diagnosis and treatment of human neurological disorders and mental illness.»

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2014, a review of key trends in science, technology, and innovation policies, and performance in more than 45 economies, South Korea and China are now the primary destinations for researchers from the United States and experienced a net «brain gain» over the period 1996 &mdTechnology and Industry Outlook 2014, a review of key trends in science, technology, and innovation policies, and performance in more than 45 economies, South Korea and China are now the primary destinations for researchers from the United States and experienced a net «brain gain» over the period 1996 &mdtechnology, and innovation policies, and performance in more than 45 economies, South Korea and China are now the primary destinations for researchers from the United States and experienced a net «brain gain» over the period 1996 — 2011.

In January 2008, working with the Computational Brain Project of the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Nicolelis took another step forward, this time with Idoya, a rhesus monkey trained to walk upright on a treadmill for treats.

Among other things, the decade - long mission aims to develop new technologies for studying the electrical activity of the brain in action.

Recently, Prof. Yoko Yazaki - Sugiyama and Dr. Shin Yanagihara from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have, for the first time, identified the neurons in the brain that are associated with the auditory memory of the father's song in zebra finches, which could lead to insight into human speech development.

«Scientists are excited because this technology allows us to make animal models that we weren't able to see before — for brain diseases, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia,» she says.

For now, the technology is limited to vision — working out what somebody is looking at from their brain activity (see «Mind - reading AI uses brain scans to guess what you're looking at»)-- but in principle there appears no reason why the entire contents of our minds couldn't be revealed.