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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

What is a Pseudo R-squared? « Healthcare Economist

What is a Pseudo R-squared? « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Augmented reality set to overtake VR as new apps go live. "AR enthusiasts envisage the technology being used in the workplace,

Augmented reality set to overtake VR as new apps go live. "AR enthusiasts envisage the technology being used in the workplace, as well as just for fun. Factory workers could learn to use a new machine with a hands-on tutorial, architects could walk through their vision for a restored building, and police...
Source: newscientist.com

IBM working on robot to take care of the elderly : Technology major IBM is developing a robot based on SoftBank's Pepper

IBM working on robot to take care of the elderly : Technology major IBM is developing a robot based on SoftBank's Pepper to assist the elderly and their caregivers. The robot will study ways of measuring heart and respiratory rate, answer basic health-related questions and determine if an individual...
Source: inshorts.com

NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016: On behalf of the editors of NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry , I am pleased

NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016: On behalf of the editors of NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry , I am pleased to present the Psychiatry Top Stories of 2016. The selection of the 10 best stories was, as always, difficult, with more than 200 summaries published in the past year that inform...
Source: jwatch.org

Liverpool, the city that wants to stamp out suicide - BBC News: Does one city which plans to eliminate suicide altogether

Liverpool, the city that wants to stamp out suicide - BBC News: Does one city which plans to eliminate suicide altogether have the answer?
Source: bbc.co.uk

Ten people to get NHS bionic eyes - BBC News: The NHS will pay for 10 blind patients to have "bionic eyes" to help treat

Ten people to get NHS bionic eyes - BBC News: The NHS will pay for 10 blind patients to have "bionic eyes" to help treat an inherited form of blindness.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Scientists Have Opened the Door to Biological Pacemaker Therapy |: Throughout life each heart beat is regulated primarily

Scientists Have Opened the Door to Biological Pacemaker Therapy |: Throughout life each heart beat is regulated primarily by a specialized tissue called the sinoatrial node. Unfortunately, this natural pacemaker’s ability
Source: medgadget.com

Fixing Obamacare Takes Back Seat, Poll Finds: The public ranks lowering prescription drug prices and ensuring that insurance

Fixing Obamacare Takes Back Seat, Poll Finds: The public ranks lowering prescription drug prices and ensuring that insurance plans have adequate health care networks as higher priorities than tinkering with Obamacare, according to a Kaiser Health Tracking Poll released just before the November elections....
Source: jamanetwork.com

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
Source: idlewords.com

What to Learn from US Govt Strategy on AI. There is an urgency. It's commercial. China is already in the lead. There is

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

AI improves publishing: "Robots will analyze complex editorial content of all lengths, and provide feedback to the humans

AI improves publishing: "Robots will analyze complex editorial content of all lengths, and provide feedback to the humans sitting behind the keyboard."
Source: niemanlab.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

Read Yuval Harari's Homo Deus. Great read giving insight into human behaviour from a historical perspective cautiously predicting

Read Yuval Harari's Homo Deus. Great read giving insight into human behaviour from a historical perspective cautiously predicting what the future might hold. Good account of the common myths that we hold ... like Gods and - even more widespread - money. Places modern 'humanism' at the centre of his...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal: The app's developer is working on a way to circumvent the ban.

Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal: The app's developer is working on a way to circumvent the ban.
Source: engadget.com

A filmmaker installed security software on a decoy phone to spy on smartphone thieves

A filmmaker installed security software on a decoy phone to spy on smartphone thieves
Source: theverge.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

Brexit uncertainty 'corrosive' for science - BBC News: Uncertainty over the nature of the UK's future relationship with

Brexit uncertainty 'corrosive' for science - BBC News: Uncertainty over the nature of the UK's future relationship with the EU is having a "corrosive" effect on science.
Source: bbc.co.uk

The Internet Archive just got a bit more useful - and a lot more political - ExtremeTech: Archive.org seems to think the

The Internet Archive just got a bit more useful - and a lot more political - ExtremeTech: Archive.org seems to think the Trump Administration will be so disastrous for data freedom that it is literally moving (a copy) to Canada.
Source: extremetech.com