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How Amazon Alexas and Smart Watches Can Help Diagnose and Treat Mental lllness
Medical doctors have stethoscopes and X-rays to diagnose and treat patients. But psychiatrists often have to rely on a patient’s word to diagnose and treat mental illness. Dr. Olusola Ajilore of the University of Illinois – Chicago is trying a new approach by using technology like smart speakers and smartphones to study and treat mood disorders.
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Samsung Launches New Budget Smartphones to Take on Apple as 5G Rivalry Heats Up
The phones come packed with features including a music-sharing setting and Snapchat filters in Samsung’s native camera app.
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Huawei Launches New Foldable Phone as U.S. Sanctions Continue to Hurt Smartphone Business
The Mate X2 will be one of the first Huawei phones able to run its own HarmonyOS mobile operating system.
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Driver in Custody After Leading Police, Deputies on High-Speed, Erratic Chase in Southern Dallas
A 35-year-old man who led Dallas County Sheriff’s deputies and Dallas police on an erratic pursuit for about 45 minutes before being apprehended Monday morning is now hospitalized after the police car he was being transported in was involved in a minor crash.
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China's Xi Says Beijing Wants Trade Deal With U.S., Can ‘Fight Back'
President Xi Jinping said Friday that Beijing wants to work for a trade deal with the United States but is not afraid to “fight back” to protect its own interests. Echoing the upbeat tone adopted by other Chinese officials in recent days, Xi told a visiting U.S. business delegation that China holds a “positive attitude” about the trade talks. “As...
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Federal Court Rules Against Warrantless Searches of Phones, Laptops at Ports of Entry
A federal court in Boston has ruled that warrantless U.S. government searches of the phones and laptops of international travelers at airports and other U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. Tuesday’s ruling in U.S. District Court came in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of 11...
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Trump Pushes Back on Reports US Will Remove China Tariffs
President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed a Chinese official’s assertion that his administration has agreed to roll back some of the higher tariffs it’s imposed on Chinese goods. The Chinese official said Thursday that the two sides had agreed to a phased cancellation of their tariff hikes as part of an emerging agreement. Trump’s pushback suggested that negotiations haven’t progressed...
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Survey: Kids' Appetite for Online Video Doubles in 4 Years
The number of young Americans watching online videos every day has more than doubled, according to survey findings released Tuesday. They’re glued to them for nearly an hour a day, twice as long as they were four years ago. And often, the survey found, they’re seeing the videos on services such as YouTube that are supposedly off limits to children...
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Your Phone Likely Isn't Listening to Your Calls, But It's Probably Taking Information From Other Activities
Do you ever feel like your smartphone is listening to you? While it might seem like your phone is always listening, Consumer Reports says that’s probably not what’s happening.
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Apps Students Are Using That Parents Should Know About
As kids in grade school use a wider variety of apps, it can be tough for parents to keep up. That’s why Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District teaches a course to help parents learn about the apps children are using.
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DC's Free Commuter Paper Ends Run With Shot at Smartphones
The farewell edition of Washington’s free daily commuter newspaper depicted a trademark yellow Express box on its side and underneath the stark headline, “Hope You Enjoy Your Stinkin’ Phones.”
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Lone Star Politics | September 8, 2019
This week on Lone Star Politics, politicians from both sides of the aisle come together to talk guns, infrastructure and bipartisanship. U.S. Rep. Van Taylor (R-Plano) and U.S. Rep. Colin Allred (D-Dallas) sit down er to discuss how they’re working together to address the needs of North Texans.
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Canada Halts Hong Kong Consulate Travel After UK Case as Protests Continue
Accountants in Hong Kong marched Friday in support of the pro-democracy movement, while the Canadian Consulate banned its staff from leaving the city on official business after a British Consulate employee was detained in mainland China. The head of the cabin crew union for Hong Kong airline Cathay Dragon said she had been fired in retaliation for supporting the movement,...
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South Korea to Remove Japan From Preferred Trade List
South Korea said Monday that it has decided to remove Japan from a list of nations receiving preferential treatment in trade in what was seen as a tit-for-tat move following Tokyo’s recent decision to downgrade Seoul’s trade status amid a diplomatic row. It wasn’t immediately clear how South Korea’s tightened export controls would impact bilateral trade. Seoul said South Korean...
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After Mocking Apple, Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From New Phones
Samsung used to use headphone jacks on its smartphones as a marketing tool against Apple. But Wednesday, Samsung reversed course. Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+ Wednesday. Neither phone has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, a first for the Galaxy Note family which has traditionally tried to distinguish itself from Apple’s iPhones with features Apple doesn’t...
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'Home Alone,' Like Everything Else These Days, Getting a Reboot
If you’re fed up with remakes, you’re not likely going to be pleased with Disney’s plans to take on Netflix. But if you’d like to see an unsupervised child fend off a home invasion for the sixth time in 29 years, you’re in luck. In an earnings call Tuesday, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that the company plans to reboot...
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Human Workers Can Listen to Google Assistant Recordings
Google contractors regularly listen to and review some recordings of what people say to artificial-intelligence system Google Assistant, via their phone or through smart speakers such as the Google Home. The company acknowledged that humans can access those recordings after some of its Dutch language audio snippets were leaked. Google product manager David Monsees acknowledged the leak in a blog...
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Human Workers Can Listen to Google Assistant Recordings
Google contractors regularly listen to and review some recordings of what people say to artificial-intelligence system Google Assistant, via their phone or through smart speakers such as the Google Home. The company acknowledged that humans can access those recordings after some of its Dutch language audio snippets were leaked. Google product manager David Monsees acknowledged the leak in a blog...
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Smartphones Linked to Bizarre Horn-Like Skull Bumps
Two Australian researchers made a bizarre discovery while examining hundreds of X-rays of skulls, finding that about a third had bone growths, NBC News reported. The development of the growths may be attributed to extensive screen-time, the researchers said. Sustained “forward head flexion,” or bending the head down, and poor posture could be the reasons for these physiological changes, they...
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Smartphones Linked to Bizarre Horn-Like Skull Bumps
Two Australian researchers made a bizarre discovery while examining hundreds of X-rays of skulls, finding that about a third had bone growths, NBC News reported. The development of the growths may be attributed to extensive screen-time, the researchers said. Sustained “forward head flexion,” or bending the head down, and poor posture could be the reasons for these physiological changes, they...