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Blind spots could be a thing of the past, if only replacing car mirrors with the latest technology were legal. Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, BMW showed off a prototype vehicle where the rearview and side mirrors were replaced by...

QPID uses natural language processing and machine learning to turn data from electronic health records into actionable information. Partners HealthCare announced on Monday that it has contracted with QPID Health, whose analytics tools will be integrated with Partners’ Epic-based eCare EHR and other legacy systems to...

In 2015, the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) industry was widely heralded as the next tectonic shift in computing. But it’s also an industry that investors are cautious to enter while everyone’s cards are still face down. It may take years before mass...

By leveraging the historical data included in the records, healthcare providers can target patients, populations more than ever. Advancements in genomic research have given medical professionals the ability to create highly detailed physiological profiles of individuals as well as a baseline for predicting the impact of...

CES, the largest consumer electronics show in the world, kicked off Monday with a sneak peek at what some companies will be exhibiting on the show floor this week. Even with a smaller sampling of exhibitors, there was a dizzying amount of tech to take...

At the end of every year, Edge reaches out to the smartest people on the planet and asks them a single question in an attempt to find the ideas and concepts that are changing the world of science. This year’s two-part question was: “What do...