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Computers Will Smell Your Breath in Five Years, and Other IBM Predictions

Maximum PC: Within the next five years, PCs and cell phones will know if you're coming down with a cold or other illness, IBM says. Tiny embedded sensors will analyze orders, biomarkers, and thousands of molecules in your breath, giving doctors help in diagnosing and monitoring certain diseases and ailments, even diabetes. That's just one of five predictions IBM made as part of its seventh annual "IBM 5 in 5," which is a list of five innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live, and interact during the next five years.

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mpctips4146d ago

I wish they'd re-master Elecric Dreams (where the thumbnail pic was taken from).

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Some of Google’s biggest rivals are taking its side in a Supreme Court battle

After nearly a decade, Oracle’s copyright lawsuit against Google is close to settling an important question: can you own the basic commands of a coding language

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A smartwatch packed with folding screens is a great idea for living in a future of stupid tech

IBM has a patent out there for a smartwatch packed with a bunch of folding screens, because the future is dumb as heck.

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The creation of the electronic brain

DCD reports on the epic decades-long quest to make computers more like the human brain. Early efforts brought us the deep learning revolution, neuromorphic computing could bring us so much more

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