Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • On big data, the Boston Marathon and civil liberties Derrick Harris, gigaom.com For all the con­cerns over mobile phone logs, video footage and other data col­lec­tion that could poten­tial­ly be used to sur­vail Amer­i­can cit­i­zens, it’s times like this that I think we see their real value. Accord­ing to a Los Ange­les… On big data,…

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  • IT has disrupted finance so why is healthcare lagging behind?

    Information technology has revolutionalized financial services. So why is healthcare so far behind? Phil Fasano, Guest Contributor, gigaom.com The U.S. leads the world in health­care expen­di­tures – an astound­ing $2.7 tril­lion in 2012 and ris­ing every year. Yet in one recent study of med­ical out­comes in the world’s most high­ly devel­oped coun­tries we ranked last.…

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  • Box gets into health IT with HIPAA compliant apps

    Box gets hip to HIPAA, adds health-record apps Jordan Novet, gigaom.com Think some cloud-storage options are no good for privacy-sensitive appli­ca­tions like health care? Box wants you to think again. Keen on boost­ing its enter­prise cus­tomer base and prep­ping for an IPO, the com­pa­ny said Wednes­day it’s now… Box gets hip to HIPAA, adds health-record…

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  • Vermont leverages Fed funds to build gigabyte network costing only $35 a month

    Vermont gets a gigabit network. And it only costs residents $35 a month Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com The tele­phone com­pa­ny that pro­vid­ed the cop­per ser­vice that in 1923 allowed Calvin Coolidge to be sworn in as Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent, at Ply­mouth Notch in Ver­mont, is trad­ing its sto­ried cop­per for fiber. VTel, a tele­phone com­pa­… Vermont…

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  • Onswipe

    inhabitat.com http://flip.it/jwZwo Onswipe

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  • Slickdeals best in tech: Dell ultrasharp monitor

    Slickdeals’ best in tech for April 24th: 29-inch Dell UltraSharp 21:9 LED monitor and more Billy Steele, engadget.com Look­ing to save some coin on your tech pur­chas­es? Of course you are! In this roundup, we’ll run down a list of the fresh­est fru­gal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slick­deals. You’ll want…

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  • Blackmagic pocket cinema camera footage

    Watch the first footage from Blackmagic’s Pocket Cinema Camera (video) Steve Dent, engadget.com Noted Black­mag­ic Design shoot­er John Braw­ley has released the first footage from the com­pa­ny’s upcom­ing $995 Pock­et Cin­e­ma Cam­era that might leave your DSLR green with envy. Though it’s always tough to judge com­pressed web footage, to … Watch the first footage…

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  • The best freelance careers

    The 10 Best Freelance Careers David Hochman, forbes.com The 10 Best Freelance Careers http://flip.it/TnJBx http://flip.it/Bkunz Related articles The freelance life, redux (cjr.org) So, I heard you quit your job? (capitalisinghumans.com) The Many Pitfalls of Freelancing (lifehack.org) Frontline Freelance Register created to help freelance war reporters (oxfordschoolofphotography.wordpress.com) Airbnb for freelancers and business people. #oipd (webnu.wordpress.com) How…

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  • Twitcident: tweet mining for emergency management

    Tweet-Mining For Crowd Management, Social Weather, And Emergencies BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com It’s not just for insane hashtags anymore! Twitcident is mining the service to help manage everything from fires to crowded concerts. Twit­ter might seem like an enor­mous stream of aim­less chat­ter. But, to an increas­ing num­ber of agen­cies,… Tweet-Mining For Crowd Management, Social…

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  • Healthtap: health professionals give free advice online

    The Ultra-Popular App That Has Convinced Doctors To Give Their Services For Free BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com HealthTap gives you access to medical professionals to answer your health queries, and it doesn’t cost you a dime. There was a time not too long ago that doc­tors lived in an ana­log world. They only answered ques­tions…

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  • Replace the GDP with the social progress measure

    Forget GDP: The Social Progress Index Measures National Well-Being BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com What’s the best way to tell how a country is doing (and serving its citizens)? It’s not just a measure of economic output, that’s for sure. This new index tracks everything from opportunity to health to sustainability. Guess where the U.S.… Forget…

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  • Anthropological bed bug solution: kidney beans

    A New Solution For Bedbugs: Kidney Bean Leaves BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com It’s actually an old solution, which was mostly lost when bedbugs were eradicated. Now that they’re back, this natural remedy might be better than any pesticides we’ve thrown at them. It only takes one infes­ta­tion with bed bugs to make you an… http://flip.it/olFwT…

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  • The best states to be a locavore

    The Top Locavore States In The U.S. BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com You might think you know the capitals of eating local, but this list will prove you wrong. These days, it’s hard to find a food­ie who doesn’t also claim to be a loca­vore, or some­one who eats locally-produced food. But it’s a lot eas­i­er…

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  • The rise of pre-commerce and the sharing economy

    The Rise of Pre-Commerce BY LISA GANSKY, fastcoexist.com The sharing economy and crowdfunding have fundamentally altered the way we develop products. Busi­ness is social. At its core is a seem­ing­ly end­less series of social interactions—not just inter­nal rela­tion­ships, but exter­nal ones as well… The Rise of Pre-Commerce http://flip.it/nDxsD http://flip.it/wJxWv Related articles Best crowdfunding options will…

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  • Startup Salaries and Equity: Angel list

      angel.co Startup Salaries & Equity – AngelList http://flip.it/0UFrl http://flip.it/ctGJb Startup Salaries & Equity Related articles How to Bootstrap Your Startup (alleywatch.com) How to Negotiate a Job Offer (upstart.com)

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  • American replaces outdated flight bags with iPads

    Step inside the modern iPad-enhanced cockpit of American Airlines Élyse Betters, 9to5mac.com Gadling, an AOL-owned trav­el blog, went aboard an Amer­i­can Air­line recent­ly to get a sneak peek at the iPad Elec­tron­ic Flight Bag that the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion orig­i­nal­ly approved in 2011. The iPad flight bag… Step inside the modern iPad-enhanced cockpit of American…

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  • Business linguistics: code switching

    How Code-Switching Explains The World Gene Demby, wbur.org So you’re at work one day and you’re talk­ing to your col­leagues in that pro­fes­sion­al, polite, kind of buttoned-up voice that peo­ple use when they’re doing pro­fes­sion­al work stuff. Your mom or … http://flip.it/wsMuP

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  • Is an advanced analytics degree worth it?

    (via AllAnalytics – Point / Counterpoint – The Advanced Analytics Degree: Worth Its Weight in Debt) Related articles Making the Most of Google Analytics (righthat.com) Points : Counterpoints (oligoclonal.wordpress.com) Philadelphia 76ers Focus On Analytics As A Winning Strategy (blogs.sap.com) Don’t do big data analytics alone, says expert (itworldcanada.com) Reinhart And Rogoff Are Not Happy (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)…

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  • Best grad degree programs in big data analytics

    (via Institute for Advanced Analytics | Dr. Michael Rappa · Survey of Graduate Degree Programs in Analytics) Related articles Cognizant (CTS) hiring Project Associate – B.E/B.Tech, B.Sc (fresherspath.wordpress.com)

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  • How airplane toilets flush

    How Airplane Toilets Flush core77.com While I’ve always suspected that this is what happens when you flush the toilet on a plane……but apparently it’s a little more complicated than that. Zodiac Aerospace (remember their “recline forward” airplane seats?) has their own Water and Wa… http://flip.it/TdgcK

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  • Traits of a serial entrepreneur

    The Skills Most Entrepreneurs Lack Bill J. Bonnstetter, hbr.org Entrepreneurs are a unique group of people, but they behave in patterns. In fact, as I recently wrote here on HBR, my firm’s research shows that most serial entrepreneurs display persuasion, leadership, personal accountability, goal orientation, a… http://flip.it/wLeH4 Related articles Entrepreneurs have leadership skills, but lack…

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