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• Kevin Costain

  

  Scanadu Scout 'medical tricorder' for smartphones breaks crowdfunding record

  The Verge - Matt Brian

  Scanadu, the health startup aiming to arm consumers with a smartphone accessory capable of reading vital signs on their body, has taken another step forward in making its "medical tricorder" a reality. Having met its $100,000 crowdfunding goal on Indiegogo in one day, the Scanadu Scout went on to …

• Kevin Costain

  

  Why smartwatches are the real future of mobile payments

  VentureBeat - Frank Palermo, Virtusa

  Skooks Pong is SVP of technology at Synapse. It’s no secret that while smartphone adoption in the U.S. continues to rise – now accounting for 57 percent of the mobile market according to comScore – rollout of in-store mobile payments has been slow and fragmented. Some experts attribute it to …

• Kevin Costain

  

  Leap Motion review: Is it time to replace the mouse?

  ExtremeTech - James Plafke

  The Leap Motion releases today, promising to change the way we interact with the personal computer. It delivers on that promise, but change could …

• Kevin Costain

  

  The 'irrelevance of Microsoft' illustrated in a single chart

  bgr.com - Zach Epstein

  Microsoft has long been the leader when it comes to personal computing, but the advent of mobile marked a major paradigm shift that Microsoft still …

• Kevin Costain

  

  Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought

  Quartz - Todd Woody

  As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the …