40,000 Brits die every year from air pollution, yet there's nothing about it in the Tory manifesto: The Conservative manifesto
40,000 Brits die every year from air pollution, yet there's nothing about it in the Tory manifesto: The Conservative manifesto has confirmed what many have feared for a long time: Tories are unable to be serious about air quality. In the 88-page document, which will set out the direction of Theresa...
Source: independent.co.uk
Philippines president bans smoking in public, with offenders facing jail: Rodrigo Duterte, a former smoker himself, defies
Philippines president bans smoking in public, with offenders facing jail: Rodrigo Duterte, a former smoker himself, defies country’s powerful tobacco lobby to sign order that also outlaws ‘vaping’
Source: theguardian.com
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
Tim Bray says "I Don’t Believe in Blockchain" ... and we should listen. The geeks are not using blockchain so some leading
Tim Bray says "I Don’t Believe in Blockchain" ... and we should listen. The geeks are not using blockchain so some leading tech gurus feel it won't catch on. There are great difficulties evaluating emerging technology when they are on the "hype curve". The potential of a public record or ledger of...
Source: tbray.org
Consent issues about Google DeepMind raised after leaked letter but its analysis of 1.6 million patient records to identify
Consent issues about Google DeepMind raised after leaked letter but its analysis of 1.6 million patient records to identify those at risk of acute renal failure seems to be covered by 'implied consent'. "Google DeepMind patient app legality questioned. A leaked letter throws doubt on the legal basis...
Source: bbc.co.uk
NHSbuntu - a modern, secure, open source, operating system being considered by Jeremy Hunt for the NHS. It seems to have
NHSbuntu - a modern, secure, open source, operating system being considered by Jeremy Hunt for the NHS. It seems to have taken the recent ransomware attack on the ageing Windows XP infrastructure of the NHS to alert those in charge to an innovation that has already been developed from within it. NHSbuntu...
Source: openhealthhub.org
WHO | Statement on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: WHO has been informed of a cluster of illness and deaths
WHO | Statement on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: WHO has been informed of a cluster of illness and deaths including haemorrhagic symptoms in Likati Health Zone, Bas Uele Province in the north of DRC. On 11 May, the Ministry of Health informed WHO that of 5 laboratory samples tested for...
Source: who.int
In record-breaking weekend, Germany got 85% of its electricity from renewables: On the last weekend of April, 85 percent
In record-breaking weekend, Germany got 85% of its electricity from renewables: On the last weekend of April, 85 percent of all electricity consumed in Germany was produced using renewable energy sources.
Source: digitaltrends.com
The UK government’s attitude to air pollution stinks: Despite debate over how many "deaths" air pollution causes, it is
The UK government’s attitude to air pollution stinks: Despite debate over how many "deaths" air pollution causes, it is clear bad air damages our health, so attempts to delay rules on reducing it must be resisted
Source: newscientist.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
APOD: 2017 May 4 - The Perseus Cluster Waves
APOD: 2017 May 4 - The Perseus Cluster Waves
Source: nasa.gov
APOD: 2017 May 11 - The Multiwavelength Crab
APOD: 2017 May 11 - The Multiwavelength Crab
Source: nasa.gov
A Serious Game for Learning C Programming Language Concepts Using Solo Taxonomy: This paper conducts a study to identify
A Serious Game for Learning C Programming Language Concepts Using Solo Taxonomy: This paper conducts a study to identify pedagogical approaches and gameplay techniques involved in the development of serious games for teaching scientific courses in general especially programming languages. The concept...
Source: online-journals.org
APOD: 2017 April 22 - Between the Rings
APOD: 2017 April 22 - Between the Rings
Source: nasa.gov
APOD: 2017 March 26 - Tardigrade in Moss
APOD: 2017 March 26 - Tardigrade in Moss
Source: nasa.gov
Polar Sea Ice at Record Lows : Image of the Day: In 2017, the Arctic maximum and Antarctic minimum extents of sea ice plunged
Polar Sea Ice at Record Lows : Image of the Day: In 2017, the Arctic maximum and Antarctic minimum extents of sea ice plunged to record lows.
Source: nasa.gov
Alphabet's influence. Good round-up of past initiatives in health technology from Google and current areas of interest to
Alphabet's influence. Good round-up of past initiatives in health technology from Google and current areas of interest to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. "Alphabet has quietly become the most influential player in Silicon Valley health tech: Alphabet has more than a dozen teams focused on health across...
Source: cnbc.com
IBM Expanding Cloud Quantum Computer Tenfold: The goal: a 50-qubit commercial universal quantum computer within five years
IBM Expanding Cloud Quantum Computer Tenfold: The goal: a 50-qubit commercial universal quantum computer within five years
Source: ieee.org
Harvard Library gets slammed for its earnest fake news guide: Updates from the fake news world: Plus: The science of why
Harvard Library gets slammed for its earnest fake news guide: Updates from the fake news world: Plus: The science of why we spread stories, Russian propaganda gets into fake news, and a "satirical" fake news site pulls the plug after Whoopi Goldberg calls it out.
Source: niemanlab.org
Two-thirds of Americans see docs who got paid by drug companies: Drexel University study: A new study led by Drexel University
Two-thirds of Americans see docs who got paid by drug companies: Drexel University study: A new study led by Drexel University found that a majority of Americans visited doctors in the past year who had been paid or given gifts by pharmaceutical or medical device companies -- but very few patients knew...
Source: eurekalert.org
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