--- description: ISIS menaces Baghdad, an artificial Pancreas app proves effective, Starbucks helps pay for college, and a bachelor party finds a fossil. title: Watch: New Artificial Pancreas Controlled by Smartphone App image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt604555c5c767cbca/698697c4e8524b048d603797/bionic_pancreas_reader_iphone.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [The Brief](/tag/the-brief/) ## The Brief Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Sweet Success: Artificial Pancreas App Shows Promise by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 16, 2014 4:21 PM CUT  The bionic pancreas consists of a smartphone, top, hardwired to a continuous glucose monitor and two pumps, bottom, that pumps deliver doses of insulin or glucagon every five minutes. The bionic pancreas consists of a smartphone, top, hardwired to a continuous glucose monitor and two pumps, bottom, that pumps deliver doses of insulin or glucagon every five minutes.Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering/AP by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 16, 2014 4:21 PM CUT Here are the stories TIME is watching this Monday, June 16. Iraq inches closer to [civil war](http://time.com/2874263/iraq-syria-sunni-isis-al-qaeda/ "undefined") after Sunni extremists within the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria claimed more territory and boasted on social media that they killed 1,700 Iraqi soldiers, a claim that remains unverified. The U.S. may pursue discussions with [Iran](http://time.com/2880985/iraq-iran-obama-talks/ "undefined") about how to quell the instability. In a limited trial of patients with Type 1 Diabetes, an [artificial pancreas](http://time.com/2881341/bionic-pancreas-diabetes/ "undefined") with a smartphone app successfully regulated subjects’ blood sugar levels and instructed a pump to dispense insulin when needed. [Starbucks](http://time.com/2879810/starbucks-offers-online-college-program-to-workers/ "undefined") is partnering with Arizona State University to offer online college tuition assistance for many of its baristas. And finally, one groom-to-be may actually remember his bachelor party in New Mexico after his group found a mastodon fossil while living it up one last time. 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