Apple Abandoned Encrypted iCloud Backups After FBI Intervened
"Apple Abandoned Encrypted iCloud Backups After FBI Intervened - ExtremeTech: According to a new report, Apple dropped plans that would have made user data even more secure by encrypting backups. It made this course change after the FBI quietly expressed concern that it could harm investigations." Companies...
Source: extremetech.com
Curious Neanderthals may have been early scientist explorers investigating volcanoes.
Neanderthals may have climbed an active volcano soon after it erupted: Footprints on an extinct Italian volcano suggest ancient humans were regular visitors, and the shapes of the tracks point to the identity of the trackmakers. "A set of preserved footprints suggests that ancient humans often went scrambling...
Source: newscientist.com
JetBrains Mono: A free and open source typeface for developers: Try JetBrains Mono in your IDE. Its simple forms and attention
JetBrains Mono: A free and open source typeface for developers: Try JetBrains Mono in your IDE. Its simple forms and attention to every detail make coding a nice experience for developers’ eyes, no matter which IDE you choose.
Source: jetbrains.com
Diagnostic Tests for Syphilis Continue to Perplex Even the Experts
Diagnostic Tests for Syphilis Continue to Perplex Even the Experts: An Unanswerable Question in Infectious Diseases - HIV and ID Observations: Here’s a tricky clinical scenario: An elderly person with cognitive decline or some other non-specific neurologic symptom sees a clinician. Clinician sends...
Source: jwatch.org
Virtual reality technology for teaching neurosurgery of skull base tumor
Virtual reality technology for teaching neurosurgery of skull base tumor: Neurosurgery represents one of the most challenging and delicate of any surgical procedure. Skull base tumors in particular oftentimes present as a very technically difficult procedures in the setting of neurosurgical teaching....
Source: biomedcentral.com
Diet and Dermatology: Google Search Results for Acne, Psoriasis, and Eczema
Diet and Dermatology: Google Search Results for Acne, Psoriasis, and Eczema: It is difficult to regulate the abundance of medical information that is available to patients on the Internet. This systematic review evaluated content available online related to diet and 3 dermatologic conditions: acne, psoriasis,...
Source: mdedge.com
Moore's outcomes framework and related papers
Outcomes-based planning for CME (Continuing Medical Education) often cites Donald Moore, Professor of Medical Education at Vanderbilt University. In 2009 he published an outcomes framework for CME (1) - which expanded George Miller's 1990 competency pyramid (2) - followed by a more detailed explanation...
Source: agnate.co.uk
UCL cancer policy update
“Because of the complexity of delivering better cancer care and the dynamics of NHS funding and introducing better practices in the health service there is a strong case for developing new cancer strategies for all the UK nations for the 2020s. Britain could also benefit from leading an independent...
Source: ucl.ac.uk
Media predictions for 2020 from BBC's Amol Rajan
Amol Rajan's 9 media predictions for 2020: Could we see streamageddon, eco-browsing, the break-up of Amazon and a new owner for ITV? "The data shows we really are living through the most extraordinarily peaceful, prosperous, wealthy, healthy, safe period in human history. There is strong evidence to...
Source: bbc.com
Dominic Cummings wants 'weirdos' to help run the UK. Will it work?: A senior adviser to the UK's prime minister suggests
Dominic Cummings wants 'weirdos' to help run the UK. Will it work?: A senior adviser to the UK's prime minister suggests policy-making can be improved by training AI on government data, but the researchers he cites say they aren't so sure
Source: newscientist.com
Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system:
Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system: Dynamical systems can undergo critical transitions where the system suddenly shifts from one stable state to another at a critical threshold called the tipping point. The decrease in recovery rate to equilibrium (critical slowing...
Source: nature.com
Corporate bollox generator
Over the holiday season I have been fine-tuning a new improved "corporate bollox generator" which can now deliver whole sentences of management goop. Please feel free to give it a go. It is written in Javascript and generates random phrases by linking adverbs, verbs, adjectives, and nouns all selected...
Source: agnate.co.uk
After the morning after: what next for UK trade policy? - Trade Knowledge Exchange: In the aftermath of the UK General Elections,
After the morning after: what next for UK trade policy? - Trade Knowledge Exchange: In the aftermath of the UK General Elections, in which the Conservatives won 364 out of 650 seats in House of Commons, the question that arises is what this means for the UK and the EU. “Getting Brexit done” was,...
Source: trade-knowledge.net
People in Japan are wearing exoskeletons to keep working as they age: To solve the problem of Japan’s ageing workforce,
People in Japan are wearing exoskeletons to keep working as they age: To solve the problem of Japan’s ageing workforce, tech companies have developed exoskeletons that help older workers continue to do heavy manual labour
Source: newscientist.com
Animated video can more cost-effectively reach the widest – even geographically isolated – populations, it readily
Animated video can more cost-effectively reach the widest – even
geographically isolated – populations, it readily complements extension
services and international development community efforts to secure
knowledge transfer and recipient buy-in for innovations. Implications
and future research...
Source: tandfonline.com
Video for learning
Video for learning is great at some things, not so great at others. Great summary of recent evidence from Donald Clark. What can we learn from Netflix? (Use technology appropriately not just the buzzwords) Episodic vs. Semantic memory (Remembering the right things from video isn't as easy as you think)...
Source: blogspot.com
'If you think competition is hard, you should try collaboration.'
Leading for integrated care: This report explores the progress, challenges and opportunities the move towards greater integration presents, through interviews with 16 people leading or chairing an integrated care system or sustainability and transformation partnership. "Under current plans all parts...
Source: kingsfund.org.uk
Effect of alcohol on promise making - a prisoner
An Economic Analysis of Business Drinking: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment
“Our GAAM (guilt aversion and alcohol myopia) model predicts that intoxication increases promise-making but has no effect on promise-breaking. We test these predictions using a prisoner’s dilemma game with pre-play...
Source: gmu.edu
Barbara Liskov - the architect of modern algorithms.
The Architect of Modern Algorithm. "Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone." She talks about her experience and views of AI, the internet, being a woman in computer science (women...
Source: quantamagazine.org
Dying with smartphones - the anthropology of our relationship with machines.
'Dying with smartphones' by Daniel Miller "The hospice movement has grown up respecting that most people want to die in their own homes, even when they are living alone. But where is that home?" "We have witnessed how smartphones are becoming part of us, rather than simply something we use. Humanity...
Source: wordpress.com
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