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How Intel and GE Will Monitor Your Grandma–For Her Own Good

In-home monitors detect behavioral patterns and predict medical emergencies. Simple hardware combined with behavioral mathematics is helping seniors live free of nursing homes. Intel and General Electric's joint healthcare product, QuietCare , uses infrared sensors, like those used for motion-sensing light switches, to monitor patients as they move throughout their home and alert medical staff to deviant behavior that suggests a medical threat.

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The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like a Transistor Radio

More cowbell! Everyone from Christopher Walken enthusiasts to major record labels to Columbia University is excited about The Echo Nest. The many uses, frivolous and non-, of Echo Nest's massive 30-million-song dataset. You music lovers out there probably think we're living in a Golden Age.

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A Pill to Remember

It has happened to everyone. You can’t recall a name or you forget your credit card PIN number.

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Video: Wes Leonard dies from enlarged heart

Wes Leonard went into cardiac arrest after making a game-winning shot in a high school basketball game. A medical examiner ruled his untimely death was the result of an enlarged heart.

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Video: Making healthy choices at the vending machine

Erica Hill gets tips from Lisa Lee Freeman, editor-in-chief of ShopSmart on how eat smarter when faced with the limited options that most vending machines offer. Then, a look at the next generation of healthier vending machines

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