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When you use smartphone AI apps like Siri, you’re dependent on the cloud for a lot of the processing — limited by your connection speed. But what if your smartphone could do more of the processing directly on your device — allowing for smarter, faster apps?

MIT scientists have taken a step in that direction with a new way to enable artificial-intelligence systems called convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to run locally on mobile devices. (CNN’s are used in areas such as autonomous driving, speech recognition, computer vision, and automatic translation.) Neural networks take up a lot of memory and consume a lot of power, so they usually run on servers in the cloud, which receive data from desktop or mobile devices and then send back their analyses.

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Forget swiping a credit card or badge to buy food at work. One Wisconsin-based tech firm is offering to install rice-size microchips in its employees’ hands.

Three Square Market will be the fir st firm in the U.S. to use the device, which was approved by the FDA in 2004, CEO Todd Westby told CNBC on Monday.

“We think it’s the right thing to do for advancing innovation just like the driverless car basically did in recent months,” he said in an interview with “Closing Bell.

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What if there was one thing that you could do today to delay or improve the natural aging process in your body and mind?

At Emerge we are constantly seeking collaboration with the best minds in the world for helpful and practical advice on how to stay physically, mentally and financially healthy. Today we explore the concept of what it would be like to totally reimagine aging.

We’ve spent weeks rounding-up the top experts from around the world in various aging (also referred to as senescence) fields and asked them one question for our highly health conscious audience:

What is the best habit for staying physically or mentally young that most people do not know?

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