Category: Digital health

  • Why Apple maps debacle was actually a success

    Is Google’s New Maps App Actually a Big Triumph for Apple? Frederick E. Allen, forbes.com Last Sep­tem­ber when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amaz­ing­ly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so round­ly denounced as a step back­ward and a weak­en­ing of the iPhone envi­ron­ment that chief exec­u­t……

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  • Marketing clouds: here comes machine learning

    Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com The advent of Sales­force Mar­ket­ing Cloud and Adobe Mar­ket­ing Cloud demon­strates the need for enter­pris­es to devel­op new ways of har­ness­ing the vast poten­tial of big data. Yet these mar­ket­ing clouds beg the ques­tion of who will help… RT @allthingsd:…

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  • Shootings stimulate mass online petitions for gun control

    25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com Update: The peti­tion has reached 25,000 sig­na­tures Almost imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the trag­ic school shoot­ing in Con­necti­cut, over 16,000 peo­ple have signed an offi­cial White House WeTheP­eo­ple peti­tion to “Imme­di­ate­ly… RT @TechCrunch: Scores Flood White House With Online…

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  • Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

    Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come Decem­ber 18th, futur­ist extra­or­di­naire Ray Kurzweil will be join­ing Google’s ranks as Direc­tor of Engi­neer­ing to work on projects that involve machine learn­ing and lan­guage pro­cess­ing. Specifics regard­ing those projects, how­ev­… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable…

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  • Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet

      Michael V. Copeland, wired.com Analyst turned VC Mary Meeker sees a lot to be excited about in tech (mobile), and much to be worried about too. http://flip.it/sMiw8 Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet Related articles Disrupt or Die. Are You Working With The Social Agency Of The…

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  • Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery

    Phil Plait, slate.com [Note from the author: This is not my first vaccine rodeo, and I expect some interesting remarks in the comments section. As always, I have copiously linked key phrases in this article to more information backing up my claims. Please read them… Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery Related articles The “no compassion”…

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  • I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work

      lifehacker.com Tessa Miller View Profile • Google Plus • RSS When we kicked off the How I Work series in August, we encour­aged read­ers to tell us whose pro­duc­tiv­i­ty tips and tricks they were dying to know. No one has been more… http://flip.it/zcWep I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work Related articles Tim Ferriss…

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  • Climate change caught in action in iceberg destruction

    Behold: The Largest Iceberg Breakup Ever Caught on Film Eric Liu, theatlantic.com The effects of climate change, in one gorgeous, terrifying video So, wow. Wow­wow­wow. A group of film­mak­ers, mak­ing a movie called, aptly, Chas­ing Ice, have cap­tured what they claim to be the largest ice­berg calv­ing ever filmed.… RT @megangarber: This is *literally* awesome:…

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  • Why cable tv is no longer necessary

    Cut the cord and say goodbye to cable Deborah Méndez-Wilson, special to USA TODAY, usatoday.com On-demand and online services offer more choices than cable—sometimes for free. Like every­one else, Audra Shar­i­fi Isfa­hani and her hus­band James McCol­lough want­ed to trim their costs in this down econ­o­my. They fig­ured if they cut their… http://flip.it/lTsTR Related articles…

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