Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  Fitbit lowest heart rate Source: Fitbit: which states have the lowest heart rate?

Considering the constant fatalities and rampant pollution, there is no better word to characterize the car’s dominance than insane. Source: The Absurd Primacy of the Automobile in American Life - The Atlantic

Source: Google.org pledges $20 million to support disability technologies

The Apple Watch has already made a huge impact and appears poised to do much more in the world of medicine. Source: The Apple Watch is a smash hit — in this one field - Business Insider

    Source: Using social data to see patients more clearly - PMLiVE

S. Lochlann Jain’s brilliant and powerful ethnography Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (2013) addresses not only how cancer has become a major disease, but also how it presents a metaphor and practice constituting American culture. Source: MAT

Leadership is changing. The future is collaborative leaders. Read through these 8 indicators to see if your leadership style will lead you into the future. Source: Traditional vs Collaborative Leaders Infographic - e-Learning Infographics

How a 19th-century nervous condition shaped the way modern Americans think about health and happiness Source: Neurasthenia: The Disease That Shaped American Ideas About Health and Happiness - The Atlantic

Apple's latest event was a snoozer, but Mac fans should pay close attention. The company's continued silence on updates for the MacBook Air and Pro says plenty about its attitude towards old-school computing. Source: Is Apple giving up on the Mac? | Digital Trends

Target has plans to launch a new digital health initiative next month online and in 500 of its 1,793 stores. Beyond knowing the stories will offer a new section for health devices, details on what, exactly, the launch will entail are scarce. One device that will be included is Quell, an FDA-cleared and smartphone-connected wearable … Continue reading Target to launch digital health initiative in 500 stores

  Imagine you were lucky enough to be friends with people all over the world. Like, from the Sahara Desert, way over to rural Slovakia. From Timbuktu to Tokyo. Source: How one app is redefining global navigation with three simple words - Techly

Mr. Trump also favors phrases like “absolutely destroy” that alienate women, according to a company that evaluates language. Source: Measuring Trump’s Language: Bluster but Also Words That Appeal to Women - The New York Times

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… … Continue reading Rythm Dreem headband promises you’ll sleep better wearing it

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