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North Bennington joined a list of communities, including nearby Hoosick Falls, N.Y., that face water-supply problems after private wells near a closed plant tested positive for a chemical, PFOA. Source: Tainted-Water Worries Spread to Vermont Village – The New York Times
Blockchains are like Excel spreadsheets, but more secure — and there is no central authority needed to approve transactions. Source: What is blockchain? – Business Insider
New data shows that renters get to work faster than homeowners. Source: Renters Have Shorter Commutes Than Homeowners: Trulia Report – CityLab
Computer vision can show you images you’re actually looking for Source: Shutterstock Has Trained A Computer To Find You The Perfect Photos | Popular Science
Source: Google put a research lab in a van and is driving it around the US | The Verge
Source: China’s education system leaves students woefully unprepared for the real world – Quartz
Blockchain’s public sector use goes beyond payments. Source: Estonia using Blockchain to secure health records | GovInsider
Source: The non-technical fields that young people should be studying if they want to be innovators – Quartz
Source: Computer vision can help classify leaves | News from Brown
Leading health IT vendors get in precision medicine game at White House Summit, including Allscripts, athenahealth, McKesson. Source: Cerner, IBM, Epic, Verily, others sign on for Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative | Healthcare IT News
A good night’s sleep is an essential ingredient for a healthy life. It sounds as simple as closing your eyes and drifting off, or counting sheep to lull yourself to sleep, however it’s actually far more complicated than that. Most people struggle to get the right amount of Z’s or even have a hard time……
Watson Health, ResearchKit team up to take on sleep disorders Source: mHealth Put to Work on the Science of Sleep
“What I need most is simply to feel heard.” Source: 9 ways to support people living with rare diseases and disorders
“Rare diseases aren’t that rare.” Source: 12 activists share what they want you to know about living with a rare disease
Source: Chomsky, Valiant and the algorithmic mirror https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160128-ecorithm-computers-and-life/
“Like” you already know— now say hello to “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad,” and “angry”. Source: Facebook Reactions, the Totally Redesigned Like Button, Is Here | WIRED
Nearly three decades ago, Warren Buffett penned an annual letter to his adoring investors mocking an insidious new trend beginning to make its mark in the money management industry: the computer. “In my opinion, investment success will not be Source: Fintech: Search for a super-algo – FT.com
We Americans don’t pickle like other countries pickle. And before you pipe up about how often you make pickles, or your mom does, or that one friend who wants everyone to love kombucha does, that’s great but by U.S. standards you’re special and internationally we’re still behind. While stateside Source: What The Funk: Why Don’t…
A Scottish philosopher visited Silicon Valley, and he didn’t like what he saw. Source: The Information Revolution’s Dark Turn – The Atlantic
It’s time to elect the first artificial intelligence into office. Source: Watson for President 2016
Crooks are reportedly demanding 9,000 in Bitcoin – about $3.4 million – from Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Source: Hollywood hospital held to ransom by cybercrooks – Naked Security
Just as the emerging medical field around the so-called human microbiome seeks to fight disease by adjusting the balance of bacteria in the body, Indigo’s goal is to manipulate the composition of bacteria in plants to grow healthier crops that ultimately produce more nutritious food. Source: Startup Indigo wants to use bacteria to create hardy…
Is New York “greener” than California? Source: 10 Reasons New York Is ‘Greener’ Than California
POC21: Where more than 100 makers, designers, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and geeks join forces to prototype the collaborative, circular economy. Source: POC21: “The World We Need” – Commons TransitionCommons Transition
You’ve heard about how robocars are going to upend the economy. But have you thought about what they’ll do to urban space? Source: No parking? Self-driving cars could have a huge effect on our cities | Grist
Little Rock is the most affordable apartment market and New York is the least affordable, according to Axiometrics’ apartment data. Source: The Most (And Least) Affordable Apartment Markets
Often organizations think that the need for a common infrastructure is about reducing duplication or eliminating waste. That, to me, is a by-product. Rather what we need is to unlock the flows of creativity and connectivity across people. Accenture has been moving avidly to design their infrastructure to accelerate how employees collaborate–a key value of…
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