Technology

CHOP robot NAO

CHOP's new robot sings, dances and even recognizes patients' faces

Fox launches new FOX Bet app in Pennsylvania, just in time to bet on NFL games

FOX Bet sports betting app

Emojis let hospitals gauge patient, provider satisfaction

Emoji Hospital Patient Satisfaction

Ring, Amazon's doorbell camera, discloses 15 partnerships with Pennsylvania police departments

Ring police partnerships doorbells amazon

A selfie video can measure your blood pressure

Blood Pressure Measurement Smartphone selfie

Here's how to know whether telemedicine is right for you

Telemedicine guide

New Jersey residents complain the most about robocalls, according to the FTC

Robocalls New Jersey residents

Doctor Alexa will see you now: Is Amazon primed to come to your rescue?

Echo Nightstand 07292019

How technology could help solve the caregiver shortage for seniors

Seniors Technology 07252019

Prosthetic arm named after Star Wars' Luke Skywalker restores sense of human touch

Prosthetic Arm Star Wars Luke Skywalker

Penn bioengineers develop light-activated genome-folding technology

Penn Genome Folding

One day, cancer patients may get their entire radiation treatment in seconds – with fewer side effects

Proton Treatment Room Penn Medicine

Former Sen. Rick Santorum involved with religious cryptocurrency called Cathio

Rick Santorum cryptocurrency cathio

Former GSK facility in Upper Merion becomes world's largest co-working space

Discovery Labs Upper Merion

Philly illustrator Loveis Wise, with two New Yorker covers in tow, featured by Adobe

Loveis Wise adobe

Robotic health care is coming to a hospital near you

Da Vinci Robotic Surgery 05092019

Philly Tech Week will feature 100 events in eight days, starting Friday

Philly Tech Week 2018

Rape Allegations

Pa. college student, accused of rape, reportedly admits ‘I raped you’ in texts

Shippensburg Police Department

Teen, wanted for Apple store thefts in N.J., sues Apple for $1 billion over mistaken identity

Apple lawsuit billion dollars

Philly launches mechanical street cleaning pilot in six neighborhoods

West philly Rowhomes Rowhouses

Penn Medicine treats two cancer patients with gene-editing tool CRISPR

CRISPR gene editing 04162019

Camden County man allegedly recorded women in Citizens Bank bathroom with hidden phone

Camden County Citizens Bank

John Legend's voice is now available for Google Assistant

John Legend's voice is now available for Google Assistant

New Jersey police departments to begin texting-while-driving crackdown April 1

Texting while driving

SEPTA rolls out new beta website for SEPTA Key, asks for user feedback

Carroll - SEPTA Key

Twitter wants to hide how many retweets, likes your tweets receive

Gritty, and many other Philadelphians, head to SXSW this weekend

Carroll - Philadelphia Flyers Gritty

YouTube bans comments on videos featuring minors

051616_YouTubeRemoval

Philadelphia is one of the best cities in the U.S. for women working in tech

Hulu Comcast Disney

Days before heading to ER, patients Google symptoms, illnesses

Google_Search_Computer

Google adds drug disposal searches to Google Maps, focuses on Pennsylvania

World's first center-hung, kinetic, 4K scoreboard planned for Wells Fargo Center

Wells Embiid scoreboard

New emojis in 2019 will include interracial couples, people with disabilities, and drop of blood

new emojis 2019 same sex interracial couple

You can finally delete messages on the Facebook Messenger app

Temple one of first universities to make student ID cards digital

Apple Owl card

Philly rocker Kurt Vile releases new, Amazon-exclusive single

Carroll - XPoNential Music Festival Kurt Vile

The Pennsylvania Republican Party bought a ‘Bob Casey for President’ web domain

Slack changed its logo to a new, squishy thing, and the internet weighed in

OMG! The early 2000s Motorola Razr might be making a comeback

Motorola

Alternative Medicine

Walgreens, Microsoft teaming up to offer new digital health care services

walgreens flickr

CES wraps up with meatless burger the product winner

Carroll - Vegetarian Food

This newsletter helps find affordable flights straight from Philly International

Philadelphia International Airport

Instagram users are freaked out by test of side-swipe timeline

instagram update side scroll

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