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Bitcoin breaks $1,000 level, highest in more than 3 years: Bitcoin has been on a steady march higher, driven by a number

Bitcoin breaks $1,000 level, highest in more than 3 years: Bitcoin has been on a steady march higher, driven by a number of factors such as the devaluation of the yuan and geopolitical uncertainty.
Source: cnbc.com

2017 Is the Make-or-Break Year for Tesla’s Gigafactory: Finally the company’s lithium-ion batteries will start coming

2017 Is the Make-or-Break Year for Tesla’s Gigafactory: Finally the company’s lithium-ion batteries will start coming off the line. But will they juice Tesla’s fortunes?
Source: ieee.org

Expect Deeper and Cheaper Machine Learning: Supercharged hardware will speed up deep learning in everything from tiny devices

Expect Deeper and Cheaper Machine Learning: Supercharged hardware will speed up deep learning in everything from tiny devices to massive data centers
Source: ieee.org

The most disruptive phase of globalization is just beginning. Is the anger that brought us Brexit and Trump explained by

The most disruptive phase of globalization is just beginning. Is the anger that brought us Brexit and Trump explained by the declining share of the global market of the G7 countries? What did Nissan actually explain to Theresa May's government about "manufacturung" in the 21st century? Could we really...
Source: qz.com

The Complete Anatomy Platform: An Interview with Niall Johnston, President of 3D4Medical |: 3D4Medical's (Dublin, Ireland)

The Complete Anatomy Platform: An Interview with Niall Johnston, President of 3D4Medical |: 3D4Medical's (Dublin, Ireland) award-winning Complete Anatomy digital educational platform facilitates the exploration of human anatomical characteristics
Source: medgadget.com

The Great A.I. Awakening. Excellent (and lengthy) article in the NY Times on Google's recent work on AI. "Apparently Google

The Great A.I. Awakening. Excellent (and lengthy) article in the NY Times on Google's recent work on AI. "Apparently Google Translate, the company’s popular machine-translation service, had suddenly and almost immeasurably improved."
Source: nytimes.com

Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study: Objective

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

Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures.

Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures. The potential for quality-linked reimbursement to incentivized improved quality of care, however, depends critically on whether physician quality can be measured reliably."
Source: healthcare-economist.com

3D Printed Model Brains Being Studied for Neuro Surgeries |: Stratasys, a manufacturing technology company based in Valencia,

3D Printed Model Brains Being Studied for Neuro Surgeries |: Stratasys, a manufacturing technology company based in Valencia, California, is touting the use of 3D printed brains it helped to create as a tool for plan
Source: medgadget.com

The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory Jeff Greenberg. Tom Pyszczynski. Sheldon

The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory Jeff Greenberg. Tom Pyszczynski. Sheldon Solomon.
Source: springer.com

More Evidence That Cranberry Products Don't Prevent Urinary Tract Infections: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by André Sofair,

More Evidence That Cranberry Products Don't Prevent Urinary Tract Infections: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS Cranberry capsules did not help prevent bacteriuria plus pyuria in a study of nursing home residents published in … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org

Medtech Innovator Champion Emerges from Live Pitch Battle |: It was early in the morning at the Medtech Innovator finals

Medtech Innovator Champion Emerges from Live Pitch Battle |: It was early in the morning at the Medtech Innovator finals at Advamed 2016 in Minneapolis, but you wouldn't have guessed it given the way everyone was per
Source: medgadget.com

Great list of mental models from DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg via the Healthcare Economist. Includes Hanlon's razor,

Great list of mental models from DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg via the Healthcare Economist. Includes Hanlon's razor, Pareto efficiency, survivorship bias, and the Pygmalion effect.
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Donald Clark Plan B: 10 ways Pokemon Go portends AR in learning

Donald Clark Plan B: 10 ways Pokemon Go portends AR in learning
Source: blogspot.com

"Radar and Under-Bed Sensors Help Evaluate Health of Elderly Folks |: Researchers at the University of Missouri have been

"Radar and Under-Bed Sensors Help Evaluate Health of Elderly Folks |: Researchers at the University of Missouri have been testing the usefulness of contact-free sensors for evaluating the health of elderly people living in a retirement community." The sensors are nothing new and the work is published...
Source: medgadget.com

Donald Clark Plan B: Leadership BS - why the leadership industry is a Ponzi scheme

Donald Clark Plan B: Leadership BS - why the leadership industry is a Ponzi scheme
Source: blogspot.com

Differences in incomes of physicians in the United States by race and sex: observational study: Objectives To estimate

Differences in incomes of physicians in the United States by race and sex: observational study: Objectives To estimate differences in annual income of physicians in the United States by race and sex adjusted for characteristics of physicians and practices. Design Cross sectional survey study. Setting...
Source: bmj.com

What if Uber did health, housing and social care?: If you’ve been to a conference in the past 12 months – you’ll almost

What if Uber did health, housing and social care?: If you’ve been to a conference in the past 12 months – you’ll almost certainly have seen the slide above, or a version of it. Mentioning “disruptive innovation” adds a sprinkle&nb…
Source: paulitaylor.com

Ultrathin Stick-On Device Measures, Displays Blood Oxygen Concentration |: Fitness trackers are exceptionally popular nowadays

Ultrathin Stick-On Device Measures, Displays Blood Oxygen Concentration |: Fitness trackers are exceptionally popular nowadays with consumers, though they're still pretty basic in their abilities. Even the more capable heart rate
Source: medgadget.com

'Cool' Saharan ants' silver hairs cause total internal reflection - physicsworld.com: Desert-dwelling ant can survive temperatures

'Cool' Saharan ants' silver hairs cause total internal reflection - physicsworld.com: Desert-dwelling ant can survive temperatures of more than 50 °C because body hairs reflect light and stop them from overheating
Source: physicsworld.com