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"DECODE provides tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or share it for

"DECODE provides tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or share it for the public good." "DECODE is an experimental project to develop practical alternatives to how we use the internet today - four European pilots will show the wider social value that...
Source: decodeproject.eu

Association Between Teaching Status and Mortality in US Hospitals: This study uses national Medicare data to compare 30-day

Association Between Teaching Status and Mortality in US Hospitals: This study uses national Medicare data to compare 30-day mortality among patients hospitalized or undergoing surgical procedures in teaching vs nonteaching hospitals between 2012 and 2014. Laura G. Burke. Austin B. Frakt. Dhruv Khullar....
Source: jamanetwork.com

Academy

Academy
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Google rolls out new ‘smart reply’ machine-learning email software to more than 1 billion Gmail mobile users | KurzweilAI

Google rolls out new ‘smart reply’ machine-learning email software to more than 1 billion Gmail mobile users | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net

3 Reasons Why 2017 Is The Year Of The Chatbot – Chatbots Magazine: When the Internet was first marketed for consumer use

3 Reasons Why 2017 Is The Year Of The Chatbot – Chatbots Magazine: When the Internet was first marketed for consumer use through companies like America Online, society was buzzing about how cool it was to…
Source: chatbotsmagazine.com

Updating Asimov - How Do We Regain Control In the Digital Age? - The Scholarly Kitchen: Algorithms behave in ways even their

Updating Asimov - How Do We Regain Control In the Digital Age? - The Scholarly Kitchen: Algorithms behave in ways even their creators can't understand, yet they dominate how we share and see information. Do we need a "Three Laws for Algorithms"?
Source: sspnet.org

When the Wolf Finally Arrives: Big Deal Cancelations in North American Libraries - The Scholarly Kitchen: For years, we

When the Wolf Finally Arrives: Big Deal Cancelations in North American Libraries - The Scholarly Kitchen: For years, we in libraries have been predicting the imminent demise of the manifestly-unsustainable Big Deal -- and yet it has persisted. Now that may be changing.
Source: sspnet.org

The Ebook R/Evolution – Not as Easy as It Seems - The Scholarly Kitchen: The "ebook revolution" in scholarly publishing

The Ebook R/Evolution – Not as Easy as It Seems - The Scholarly Kitchen: The "ebook revolution" in scholarly publishing has behaved more like an evolution. Are we reaching a key inflection point where users are central to our innovations?
Source: sspnet.org

Robotic system can 3-D print basic structure of an entire building | KurzweilAI

Robotic system can 3-D print basic structure of an entire building | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net

Scientific Reports Overtakes PLOS ONE As Largest Megajournal - The Scholarly Kitchen: The open access megajournal is a proven

Scientific Reports Overtakes PLOS ONE As Largest Megajournal - The Scholarly Kitchen: The open access megajournal is a proven success, but its future may lie in the hands of commercial entities.
Source: sspnet.org

What if you could eat chicken without killing a chicken?: And can lab-grown meat and poultry actually fix the planet?

What if you could eat chicken without killing a chicken?: And can lab-grown meat and poultry actually fix the planet?
Source: theoutline.com

What’s the “Take Home” from Research on Dementia Trends?: Eric Larson and Kenneth Langa discuss whether the risk of

What’s the “Take Home” from Research on Dementia Trends?: Eric Larson and Kenneth Langa discuss whether the risk of dementia is increasing or decreasing over time. Eric B. Larson. Kenneth M. Langa. PLOS Medicine.
Source: plos.org

Transcranial alternating current stimulation used to boost working memory | KurzweilAI

Transcranial alternating current stimulation used to boost working memory | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net

'7lbs in 7 days' retreat at Juicy Oasis Feb 20-27th 2016. Blog about the retreat. Just returned from a week at Juicy Oasis

'7lbs in 7 days' retreat at Juicy Oasis Feb 20-27th 2016. Blog about the retreat. Just returned from a week at Juicy Oasis in Portugal - a health and spa retreat based on a juicing diet run by Jason Vale. It was a lovely sunny escape from the February cold and rain in the UK. The main features were...
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South Africa may be the epicenter of a geomagnetic pole reversal in progress

Evidence suggests that the planet may be in the opening strains of a geomagnetic chicken dance, the likes of which we haven't seen for almost a million years. Don’t start running around like your hair’s on fire, but this might actually matter. The Earth’s magnetic field is so discombobulated over...
Source: extremetech.com

Supply, Demand, and the Subscription Model in Scholarly Publishing - An Analysis - The Scholarly Kitchen: An overview of

Supply, Demand, and the Subscription Model in Scholarly Publishing - An Analysis - The Scholarly Kitchen: An overview of usage trends across libraries and journals indicates that usage is generally stable or up, archives remain of interest, and consumption doesn't align with authorship or funding.
Source: sspnet.org


Source: arstechnica.com

Testosterone and Male Aging: Faltering Hope for Rejuvenation: Hopes for hormonal rejuvenation appear periodically throughout

Testosterone and Male Aging: Faltering Hope for Rejuvenation: Hopes for hormonal rejuvenation appear periodically throughout history—with the most prominent attempt occurring around the turn of the 20th century only to vanish in the 1930s following the discovery of testosterone, which discredited testis...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Responding to social media posts with pictures of a cute hedgehog in a hat. When you see a post and don't quite know what

Responding to social media posts with pictures of a cute hedgehog in a hat. When you see a post and don't quite know what to say then perhaps the only option is to respond with a picture of a hedgehog in a hat. After all isn't that why the internet was invented? First of all the social media machine...
Source: tineye.com

Lighting Up Lingshed: A Remote Village in the Himalayas Gets Lights and Internet Access

Lighting Up Lingshed: A Remote Village in the Himalayas Gets Lights and Internet Access
Source: ieee.org