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Innovation

Weird and wacky: Inventors show devices in Geneva

Stock PhotoGENEVA (AP) - Inventors from 45 countries are laying out their weird and wacky wares at the world's biggest inventions fair in Geneva this week.

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NEW: Solar products testing labs opening in Conn., NC

Credit NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.MILFORD, Conn. (AP) - A university in Connecticut and one in North Carolina are getting a chance to play a key role in the growth of "green" technology.

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IBM to apply "Watson" Analytics Technology to healthcare

Watson, powered by IBM POWER7, is a work-load optimized system that can answer questions posed in natural language over a nearly unlimited range of knowledge.IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced a research agreement to explore, develop and commercialize the Watson computing system's advanced analytics capabilities in the healthcare industry.

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Machines beat us at our own game: What can we do?

IBM's Watson computer system, powered by IBM POWER7, competes against Jeopardy!’s two most successful and celebrated contestants -- Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.UNDATED (AP) - Watson got its start in Jeopardy but the hope is it can be used someday to keep people out of it.

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Boston Scientific Receives Exclusive Expanded Indication For Its CRT-Ds

Boston Scientific CorporationBoston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an expanded indication for its cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds), including the COGNIS® CRT-D.

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