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Smart Brain Implants

Can a tiny chip implanted in the brain help control dark or depressive thoughts? For decades, doctors have been placing small devices in people’s brains to help patients with movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease. But increasingly, physicians have been experimenting with using similar neurological implants...

BookBub Goes To India

Quick. Name the country that has the world’s second largest English speaking population. Hint: the country also has a rapidly-growing educated population that’s reading an increasing number of books. If you guessed India, you’re right. But to BookBub, the Kendall Square-based company that releases a daily newsletter providing...

To Negotiate Pricey Medical Bills

When they worked at Watertown’s AthenaHealth, which provides medical billing and other services to the health care industry, Rebecca Palm and Katie Vahle noticed that people weren’t paying their hospital bills on time. It turns out those people weren’t trying to dodge their debts. Instead,...

Getting Personalized Book Recommendations

The complaint of the bibliophile – too many books, too little time – sounds like a plea for help. Forget about reading them all, how is the time-starved reader supposed to even keep track of the latest offerings from the publishing industry? Like a proactive...

A Handbag for Power-Dressers

A smart-looking handbag can make you look good, but a smart handbag can do much more for you. The 314, a luxury handbag made in Italy with technology designed at MIT, is both good-looking and smart – and is poised to hit the market soon....

Apps vs Autism

Can technology help children with autism accomplish what other educational efforts have not? Ned Sahin aims to find out. Sahin founded Brain Power, a Cambridge startup that is using Google Glass to teach children with autism how to better engage and socialize with people. Brain...