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  FIU Researchers Invent Machine That Can Detect Zika in 40 Minutes

  July 30 at 2:42 p.m.

  It's been two years since Miami's Summer of Zika, when everyone was freaked out about mosquitoes and your friends all canceled their trips to Florida. But although the public frenzy about the virus has since died down, dozens of Floridians are still being diagnosed with Zika. According to the Department of Health, at least 59 travel-related cases have been reported across the state so far this year.

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  No New Friends? A Miami-Based App Could Fix That

  July 5 at 8:30 a.m.

  Let’s be honest: Most people suck at making friends after college. For one reason or another, many cling to the pals they made on the high-school soccer team or in the college dorms and rarely develop close friendships after that. Maybe there’s that one person at work, but that’s about...

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  Ford's "Driverless" Food-Delivery Vehicles in Miami Aren't Actually Driverless

  June 15 at 9:36 a.m.

  For months, Ford has been using Miami-Dade County as a testing ground for self-driving cars in a partnership touted as a way to reduce the area’s maddening traffic problems. Now, shiny new Transit Connect vans emblazoned with the words “self-driving delivery service” have hit the road to deliver for 70 local businesses.

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  Miami-Dade Commissioners Vote to Expand Use of Questionable Gunshot-Detection Technology

  June 8 at 8 a.m.

  In 2012, Miami-Dade County became one of the first places to test a gunshot-detection technology called ShotSpotter, which uses acoustic sensors to alert police to gunfire. But after a year of the pilot program, the county abandoned the system over concerns about its effectiveness: Officers were able to confirm only 50 shootings of 1,000 supposedly detected by ShotSpotter, and the department couldn't point to a single crime the technology helped solve.

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  VR Expo to Highlight Miami's Growing Virtual-Reality Scene

  May 31 at 9 a.m.

  The inaugural Miami VR Expo is set to take place June 8 and 9 at Magic City Studios and will highlight the city's virtual-reality scene.

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  Miami Cell Phone Company Agrees to Fix Huge Data-Leakage Scandal

  May 4 at 8 a.m.

  Most cell-phone-using Americans might not be familiar with BLU, a Miami-based tech company that makes budget-level Android phones and sells them at markedly cheap prices. But the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges some third-party Chinese data-collection agencies knew BLU well. The company was secretly selling phones infected with spyware...