Snapchat grows up: "Organizations that aren’t on Snapchat Discover will go beyond the experimental phase on Stories. The remaining skeptics won’t be for much longer."
Source: niemanlab.org
How Can We Empower Women to End Poverty?: “We’re the first generation of people who do really know what the cure for poverty is. It eluded people for a long, long time. The cure for poverty has a name, in fact. It’s called the empowerment of women.” - Christopher Hitchens
Source: thelifeyoucansave.org
What to Learn from US Govt Strategy on AI. There is an urgency. It's commercial. China is already in the lead. There is no clear vision where to focus funding. The US has a good roadmap and wants to expand the workforce. The US is not going for general intelligence. "On October 12, 2016, President...
Source: digitopoly.org
"Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI - TechRepublic: Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered?"...
Source: techrepublic.com
Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study: Objective To estimate the effect of playing Pokémon GO on the number of steps taken daily up to six weeks after installation of the game.
Design Cohort study using online survey data.
Participants...
Source: bmj.com
LIGO's gravitational-wave discovery is Physics World 2016 Breakthrough of the Year - physicsworld.com: Long-awaited direct detection of Einstein's gravitational waves tops our list of the 10 key breakthroughs in physics this year
Source: physicsworld.com
Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic: There is considerable scientific interest in understanding how cell assemblies - the long-presumed computational motif - are organized so that the brain can generate cognitive behavior. The Theory of Connectivity proposes that...
Source: frontiersin.org
"Digital-native news outlets in Europe tend to be more focused on delivering quality journalism than on creating new business models or innovating about ways news is presented, according to a new report from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that studied 12 online startups in France,...
Source: niemanlab.org
How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost
Source: theatlantic.com
Why Technology Will Not Get Cheaper: The long-desired hope that digital publishing will be cheaper gets more cold water, as infrastructure and personnel costs continue to rise, with no real end in sight.
Source: sspnet.org
Measures of Malaria Burden after Long-Lasting Insecticidal Net Distribution and Indoor Residual Spraying at Three Sites in Uganda: A Prospective Observational Study: In this prospective observational study, Grant Dorsey and colleagues measure changes in malaria burden after long-lasting insecticidal...
Source: plos.org
No Long-Term Survival Benefit from Endovascular Repair of AAA Versus Open Repair: By Kelly Young
Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM
Endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm carries lower short-term but higher long-term mortality risks than open repair, according...
Source: jwatch.org
Australia has moved 1.5 metres, so it's updating its location for self-driving cars: Strewth! Australia will update its latitude and longitude to make sure self-driving cars, drones and tractors know where they're going.
Source: cnet.com
Incredibly focused Japanese author describing her tidying technique. Basically get rid of everything that you don't really, really like and then store things where you can see them all. The KonMari technique. I enjoyed the argument she gave about sorting out your stuff. You can do it now, do it at some...
Source: amazon.co.uk
Jeremy Hunt doesn’t understand junior doctors. He co-wrote a book on how to dismantle the NHS | Frankie Boyle: Frankie Boyle: The health secretary’s name is so redolent of upper-class brutality he belongs in a Martin Amis book where working-class people are called Dave Rubbish
Source: theguardian.com
Coral are bleaching along the entire Great Barrier Reef: Warm water is causing the most damaging event we’ve ever seen there.
Source: arstechnica.com
How long will it take? Conceptualizing the temporal dynamics of energy transitions
Source: sciencedirect.com
Birds measure magnetic fields using long-lived quantum coherence - physicsworld.com
Source: physicsworld.com
Press Announcements - FDA approves first leadless pacemaker to treat heart rhythm disorders: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first pacemaker that does not require the use of wired leads to provide an electrical connection between the pulse-generating device and the heart. While...
Source: fda.gov
Just read the "Happy Life" story - saving abandoned children on the streets of Nairobi. This is about a children rescue centre in Nairobi started 14 years ago and has now expanded to caring directly for around 100 children across two sites. They have offered for adoption over 170 children. The city...
Source: amazon.co.uk