How the Internet of Things will revolutionise medicine

Anyone who’s been in hospital will know how long nurses spend taking hourly measurements for blood pressure, and much more besides. If a hospital could put a wearable device on each patient to automate the process, the time saved would be enormous – and that’s just the beginning of how the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to change healthcare. Over

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The physical web: A hidden world that will change things forever

A hidden world is being constructed that will change the way you access information forever. Beneath your feet, in the walls of offices, on streetlights and underneath the products in stores, tiny beacons are being secreted that broadcast a Bluetooth signal. Some get online, others talk to each other, but all will soon communicate with your phone. This is the

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10 best wireless routers to make your internet fly

Just about any household with broadband internet will have a wireless router supplied by the service provider – but there are plenty of good reasons to buy a newer, more powerful model. Your existing router may be a bit long in the tooth, and that means it doesn’t have the latest hardware, or support all the modern wireless networking standards,

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Dolphins Form Complex Social Networks, According To New Study

Dolphins — they’re just like us. According to a study recently published in the journal Marine Mammal Science, bottlenose dolphins cluster into unique social networks, similarly to how humans socialize. While dolphins have been known to form communities based on kinship, food preferences and location within their habitat, the study shows that they also exhibit preferential and avoidance behaviors for

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SURVEY: Millennials Prefer To Stumble Onto News Stories

CHICAGO (AP) — Young adults have a reputation for being connected to one another and disconnected from the news. But a survey has found that mobile devices and social networking are keeping them more engaged with the broader world than previously thought. They want news, they say, though they don’t always aggressively seek it out — perhaps simply happening upon

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