depression
How To Electrify Your Brain To Be Smarter With a 9-Volt Battery [Science]
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Transcranial direct current stimulation can make your brain work better. DARPA proved it can make you better at video games, the U.S. Air Force has shown it cuts drone remote-pilot training in half, and Harvard researchers have used it to treat depression. So what is this magical device that...
Can a smartphone sense depression?
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New smartphone technology called Mobilyze is being developed to make personal mood assessments and help people stave off depression....
Boston companies: Last chance to meet with the best mentors in town
venturebeat.com
Just a friendly reminder that we’ll be in Boston next Tuesday, February 14, and we’re still looking for the best local companies to come meet with us. We’ll be there as part of our global DEMO tour, and we’ll be partnering with three of the top mentors Boston has to...
Analyst explains why the stock market is completely crazy when it comes to Apple
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If you find yourself confused by the bipolar nature of Apple’s (AAPL) share prices, you’re not alone. Asymco’s Horace Dediu has posted some analysis of Apple’s stock prices and has found that their wild boom-bust swings make relatively little sense from an economic perspective. What’s more, he has found that...
Next-Generation iPhone Part Leaks Begin with Home Buttons
www.macrumors.com
As noticed by Apple Bitch, Chinese parts vendor TVC-Mall has begun offering "iPhone 5" home buttons for sale in both black and white. But what the report doesn't mention is that the buttons are indeed slightly different from the round home buttons seen on iOS devices to date. Front of...
Exercise is no panacea for depression – but it keeps it at bay | Simon Hattenstone
www.guardian.co.uk
As a depressed manic exerciser, this churlish research dismissing exercise is patronising and misses the pointHow depressing. I woke up this morning, it's pissing down, nobody's quite forgiven the Republican poem I read out at the local Jubilee celebration, the geraniums are wilting, and some party pooper has just published...
Microsoft one ups other tablet 'smart' covers with Surface's keyboard and touchpad folio
www.engadget.com
What's 3mm thick, crafted from the finest Polartec and attaches to a tablet magnetically? If you guessed an iPad smart cover you might be right, but right now we're pretty enamored with Microsoft's Surface cover. See, it works almost exactly like that other "smart" table shield, but this one...
Einhorn to Apple: No Hard Feelings Over That "Depression-Era Grandmother" Comment, Okay?
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Apple’s new capital allocation plan isn’t quite what Greenlight Capital founder and famous Apple bull David Einhorn was looking for earlier this year when he called for the company to abandon its Depression-era grandmother mentality about its cash hoard. Certainly, it’s not even close to the perpetual preferred iPrefs...
Marc Andreessen: We're in a tech depression
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Netscape founder says tech stocks are cheap. FORTUNE -- Marc Andreessen, co-head of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and founder of Netscape, says the slump in technology stocks is as bad as he has ever seen it. And now might be the time to buy in. Andreessen, speaking at a...
Kinect-based system diagnoses depression with 90% accuracy
www.extremetech.com
Computer scientists at the University of Southern California have used Microsoft's Kinect sensor to detect, with 90% accuracy, whether you are depressed. All you have to do is sit down in front of Kinect, answer some questions from an on-screen virtual psychologist, and the clever software does the rest. The...
Apple shedding depression era mentality on cash hoarding
www.zdnet.com
Apple may be ready to admit it has more cash than it knows what to do with. That’s good news for shareholders....
Apple's Cash Cache Could Hit $170 Billion This Year
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At $137 billion, Apple’s cash stockpile is the biggest around — a little more than double Microsoft’s, which ranks second largest. A grotesquely large cash cache — one that will be obscenely large by year’s end if Apple doesn’t do something with it. Moody’s Investors Service figures Apple’s cash could...
Daily Report: A Device to Read Your Thoughts
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The physicist Stephen Hawking is trying out a device the size of a matchbox that aims to allow him to communicate by merely thinking, David Ewing Duncan reports in Tuesday's New York Times. The iBrain is part of a new generation of devices and algorithms intended to monitor and diagnose...
Concussions Can Be Diagnosed With a Simple App Now
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It's estimated that every year in the US there are 1.6 million to 3.8 million sports-related traumatic brain injuries. And if not diagnosed in a timely and accurate manner, they can lead to further complications including depression and even suicide. So researchers at the University of Notre Dame have...
The 404 990: Where we backpack cross-country (podcast)
www.cnet.com
Can a smartphone sense depression? If that's true, then Jeff's Galaxy Nexus is about to blow up. On today's show, we'll review a new virtual therapist app out of Northwestern University that tracks a user's location, social context, and activities to determine mood-effecting triggers. This story and more fun on...
How to cope with the emotional stress of a startup
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Depression or stress among co-founders can kill a startup just as easily as poor market conditions or a bet on the wrong market. [Read more]...
This creepy robotic cheetah sets new land speed record for robots with legs [video]
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We love robots at The Next Web, a lot. We’ve told you about robotic seals helping to ease depression, Romo the smartphone robot, and scientists in Europe who think that one day we can become “friends” with robots. Today, we bring you the fastest robot with legs on the planet....
Watch Aaron Swartz's 'Last' Video Interview [Video]
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Turns out the world hadn't quite heard the last of Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist and Reddit co-founder who killed himself in January. The makers of an unreleased documentary about the fight over the open Internet, War for the Web, have just released unedited footage of what they call "the last...
New moms more likely to seek help for depression if it's online
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Mothers suffering from postpartum depression after high-risk pregnancy would go online for help if they could remain anonymous, according to a new study out of Case Western Reserve. [Read more]...
ANDREESSEN: This Is A Tech Depression (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, FB, HPQ)
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In the twelve months running up to Facebook's IPO there was a big debate about whether or not the tech industry was in another bubble. After Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga all crashed, it sure seemed like that theory was validated. After all, their valuations got inflated and then very quickly...
Daily Report: Relic of an Era, Revitalized for Tech Start-ups
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River North's transformation is extending to one of the neighborhood's most storied - and decidedly low-tech - commercial addresses. The Merchandise Mart, a Depression-era behemoth of limestone, concrete and steel that has long been synonymous with fabric bolts and furniture, is becoming a destination for the city's digital set....
Detroit Electric, quiet since the Depression, plans a $135K Tesla Roadster-like electric car
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Detroit Electric's Tesla Roadster-like entry will ship this summer and sell for around $135,000. Uncertainty about the release aside, we do know that this is not a Nissan Leaf....
KRUGMAN: Here's How To Fix The Economy...
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We had Paul Krugman on Daily Ticker this morning. Please see video above... Over the past five years since the Great Recession began, economists have been waging a religious war over the best way to fix our problems. On one side are so-called "austerians" who argue that the problem...
The 404 1,076: Where you don't know you're beautiful (podcast)
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Leaked from today's 404 episode: Microsoft's secret 4-year Xbox 720 road map leaked onto the Web, using Web browsing idiosyncrasies to gauge depression, CBS green lights a Draw Something game show pilot, and Jeff sees a movie he actually liked! [Read more]...
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens claims extortion and cyber bullying from his son's tell-all blog
www.theverge.com
A simple Blogspot journal is the center of a $20 million extortion claim and the alleged cyber bullying of one of the wealthiest men in America. Michael Pickens, son of billionaire business magnate T. Boone Pickens, began the tell-all blog last year, writing about petty fighting, poor parenting, and...
Economist Paul Krugman talks Asimov, Death Stars, and other sci-fi influences
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In a recent interview with Wired, renowned economist and columnist Paul Krugman talked about the influence science fiction has had on his life and career and discussed his new book, End This Depression Now! It's a long and entertaining read that, among other things, relates Krugman's desire to become...
DailyDirt: Man's Best Friends
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Dogs have been domesticated for thousands of years, and there's been some speculation that humans and dogs have co-evolved to some extent. So it would be nice to understand our domesticated friends a bit better, and technology could help us out. We've seen products like Bowlingual for translating dog barks...
Why Isn’t This News? Always Look On The Bright Side [Video]
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A late Why Isn’t This News? this week, but Sarah and I have been travelling to and from various deserts and have only just managed to find a Skype window. I’m just back from the paperback launch of The Upgrade in Austin and my new Byliner Original — Sober Is...
Apple's earnings per share could decline for first time in almost a decade
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The big reason that Apple’s (AAPL) stock price has been tanking isn’t because anyone thinks the company will collapse over the next year; rather, it’s because investors are worried that the company will simply be unable to maintain the sky-high margins on its products in the face of brutal competition...
Today in Astonishment: The Amazon Rainforest Gets Its Nutrients from a Tiny Spot in the Sahara
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The Amazon basin is one of the world's wondrous ecosystems, supporting massive amounts of life, both in kind and quantity. You might have thought about poison frogs or monkeys, but you've probably never stopped to wonder, "Where are all the nutrients that power this biotic explosion coming from?"The answer is...
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