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Equifax Had 'Admin' as Login and Password in Argentina - Slashdot: Reader wired_parrot writes: The credit report provider

Equifax Had 'Admin' as Login and Password in Argentina - Slashdot: Reader wired_parrot writes: The credit report provider Equifax has been accused of a fresh data security breach, this time affecting its Argentine operations. The breach was revealed after security researchers discovered that an online...
Source: slashdot.org

IBM’s Watson versus cancer: Hype meets reality: Five years ago, IBM announced that its supercomputer Watson would revolutionize

IBM’s Watson versus cancer: Hype meets reality: Five years ago, IBM announced that its supercomputer Watson would revolutionize cancer treatment by using its artificial intelligence to digest and distill the thousands of oncology studies publish…
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

Facebook has mapped populations in 23 countries as it explores satellites to expand internet: Facebook used its own technology

Facebook has mapped populations in 23 countries as it explores satellites to expand internet: Facebook used its own technology to map the Earth's entire human population as it prepares for an internet based in space.
Source: cnbc.com

Is Python Really the Fastest-Growing Programming Language? - Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes Stack Overflow Blog: In

Is Python Really the Fastest-Growing Programming Language? - Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes Stack Overflow Blog: In this post, we'll explore the extraordinary growth of the Python programming language in the last five years, as seen by Stack Overflow traffic within high-income countries. The term...
Source: slashdot.org

The Promise of Online Learning: A Q&A with Salman Khan : The groundbreaking founder of the Khan Academy talks about using

The Promise of Online Learning: A Q&A with Salman Khan : The groundbreaking founder of the Khan Academy talks about using technology to supercharge traditional learning.
Source: shrm.org

Old technology: NHS uses 10% of world's pagers at annual cost of £6.6m: Report into NHS communications says it uses 130,000

Old technology: NHS uses 10% of world's pagers at annual cost of £6.6m: Report into NHS communications says it uses 130,000 pagers and it is surprising ‘legacy equipment is relied upon in emergency situations’
Source: theguardian.com

8-STEP PROCESS Over four decades, Dr. Kotter observed countless leaders and organizations as they were trying to transform

8-STEP PROCESS Over four decades, Dr. Kotter observed countless leaders and organizations as they were trying to transform or execute their strategies. He identified and extracted the success factors and combined them into a methodology, the award-winning 8-Step Process for Leading Change.
Source: kotterinternational.com

Wind turbine manufacturers are dipping toes into energy storage projects: Vestas said to be working with Tesla, and that

Wind turbine manufacturers are dipping toes into energy storage projects: Vestas said to be working with Tesla, and that just caps off a busy summer.
Source: arstechnica.com

Chatbots as a Patient Engagement solution – Florence.chat "Chatbots are computer programs that are able to conduct a

Chatbots as a Patient Engagement solution – Florence.chat "Chatbots are computer programs that are able to conduct a conversation and are typically used in dialog systems for various practical purposes including customer service or information acquisition. Despite their creation more than 60...
Source: florence.chat

Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is

Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is rapidly evolving into competency-based continuing professional development (CPD) and this is driving change in self-directed CPD programs undertaken by individual practitioners as...
Source: amegroups.com

Low‐cost agricultural waste accelerates tropical forest regeneration: Lower‐cost tropical forest restoration methods,

Low‐cost agricultural waste accelerates tropical forest regeneration: Lower‐cost tropical forest restoration methods, particularly those framed as win–win business‐protected area partnerships, could dramatically increase the scale of tropical forest restoration activities,... Treuer, Timothy...
Source: wiley.com

Epigenetics may explain how Darwin's finches respond to rapid environmental changes, according to new research published

Epigenetics may explain how Darwin's finches respond to rapid environmental changes, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Source: phys.org

Assessment of a Tele-education System to Enhance Retinopathy of Prematurity Training by International Ophthalmologists-in-Training

Assessment of a Tele-education System to Enhance Retinopathy of Prematurity Training by International Ophthalmologists-in-Training in Mexico. - PubMed - NCBI
Source: nih.gov

Understanding Smartphone Separation Anxiety and What Smartphones Mean to People "What factors determine nomophobia, otherwise

Understanding Smartphone Separation Anxiety and What Smartphones Mean to People "What factors determine nomophobia, otherwise known as smartphone separation anxiety, and what behaviors and descriptors can help identify people with high nomophobia who tend to perceive smartphones as their extended selves?...
Source: liebertpub.com

Sony Develops System for Authentication, Sharing, and Rights Management Using Blockchain Technology: Sony Corporation and

Sony Develops System for Authentication, Sharing, and Rights Management Using Blockchain Technology: Sony Corporation and Sony Global Education (SGE) have developed a system that will apply block chain technology to the field of education. By using "technology that makes mutual use of educational achievements...
Source: sony.net

Credentialing to have important role in modernising doctors' training - Hospital Dr

Credentialing to have important role in modernising doctors' training - Hospital Dr
Source: hospitaldr.co.uk

Assessing the impact of healthcare research: A systematic review of methodological frameworks: Derek Kyte and colleagues

Assessing the impact of healthcare research: A systematic review of methodological frameworks: Derek Kyte and colleagues systematically review approaches to the evaluation of health research. Samantha Cruz Rivera. Derek G. Kyte. Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi. Thomas J. Keeley. Melanie J. Calvert. PLOS Medicine.
Source: plos.org

The secret of passing the MRCP part 1 exam. You may not like the answer but read on ... Going on the right course? Reading

The secret of passing the MRCP part 1 exam. You may not like the answer but read on ... Going on the right course? Reading the right books? Forming a question group? Signing up to an online question bank? Doing the right job whilst sitting the exam? Joining a Facebook forum? Doing past papers? All of...


Source: arstechnica.com

The digital native is a myth: The younger generation uses technology in the same ways as older people — and is no better

The digital native is a myth: The younger generation uses technology in the same ways as older people — and is no better at multitasking. Nature News.
Source: nature.com