This Week In Tech - July 17th – 24th

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It has been another eventful week in technology.

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• Surgeons in Manchester have performed the first bionic eye implant in a patient with the most common cause of sight loss in the developed world.

• Researchers have figured out a way to manipulate mice brains from afar. The question now: what's next?

• A team of Doctors fixed a 3-D printed titanium implant to a baby girl’s skull in Cleveland to reshape it as soon as they discovered she has a deadly birth defect known as ‘hydrocephalus.’

• The first government-approved drone delivery took flight on Friday, in which an unmanned aerial vehicle successfully dropped medical supplies to a health clinic in rural southwest Virginia.

• When we think of asteroids, scenarios of species-ending impacts typically come to mind. The impact from a large enough rock would, frankly, be deadly. Yet, these space rocks contain  elements that are extremely valuable to us, including gold, iridium, silver, platinum, iron, cobalt, manganese, nickel, aluminum and titanium. Now, an asteroid mining company, Planetary Resources, has taken a huge step to being able to mine these space objects.

SOURCE  Futurism.com

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