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Turkey blocks Tor's anonymity network: It's harder to evade the country's growing censorship efforts.

Turkey blocks Tor's anonymity network: It's harder to evade the country's growing censorship efforts.
Source: engadget.com

Multi-social millennials more likely depressed than social(media)ly conservative peers: Compared with the total time spent

Multi-social millennials more likely depressed than social(media)ly conservative peers: Compared with the total time spent on social media, use of multiple platforms is more strongly associated with depression and anxiety among young adults, the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media,...
Source: eurekalert.org

New Evidence of the Superiority of Female Doctors: If all physicians were women, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every

New Evidence of the Superiority of Female Doctors: If all physicians were women, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year.
Source: theatlantic.com

Review question: Are action plans with brief education to help patients recognise and respond to worsening symptoms effective

Review question: Are action plans with brief education to help patients recognise and respond to worsening symptoms effective in COPD? | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org

Rise of the rebel journalist

"News is not journalism if what's being reported is only meant to extract value from communities as opposed to creating value within them."
Source: niemanlab.org

The battle for high-quality VR: "It's time to acknowledge that your audience does not need to see your every stumble on

The battle for high-quality VR: "It's time to acknowledge that your audience does not need to see your every stumble on the way to virtual reality greatness."
Source: niemanlab.org

Meet Microsoft's new chatbot, Zo: Now with (hopefully) 100% less Nazism - ExtremeTech: Microsoft is throwing its hack back

Meet Microsoft's new chatbot, Zo: Now with (hopefully) 100% less Nazism - ExtremeTech: Microsoft is throwing its hack back into the AI chatbot ring, this time with a new AI, dubbed Zo. Hopefully this one won't turn into a Nazi spambot within 24 hours of launch.
Source: extremetech.com

"Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI - TechRepublic: Internet

"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

V2V - vehicle to vehicle communication is coming ... perhaps. "Feds push hard for vehicle-to-vehicle communication, at

V2V - vehicle to vehicle communication is coming ... perhaps. "Feds push hard for vehicle-to-vehicle communication, at least until Jan. 20 - ExtremeTech: Feds want V2V short-range safety communications on cars in the next five years. Whether that happens depends more on President Trump's transportation...
Source: extremetech.com

Forest of Carbon Nanotubes Stamps Electronic Ink Onto a Surface: Novel approach could enable various electronics from sensors

Forest of Carbon Nanotubes Stamps Electronic Ink Onto a Surface: Novel approach could enable various electronics from sensors to displays on packaging
Source: ieee.org

Tiny Implantable "Microcoils" in the Brain Activate Neurons Via Magnetic Fields: Precise stimulation could be useful for

Tiny Implantable "Microcoils" in the Brain Activate Neurons Via Magnetic Fields: Precise stimulation could be useful for visual prosthetics or brain-computer interfaces
Source: ieee.org

Horus Recognizes Faces, Reads Text, Describes World Around for Blind People |: A new device is expected to soon be made

Horus Recognizes Faces, Reads Text, Describes World Around for Blind People |: A new device is expected to soon be made available for visually impaired people that uses voice to describe the world in front of them. The device is a camera and standalone computer that can be trained to recognise faces....
Source: medgadget.com

Trampolines 'dangerous', says top bone surgeon - BBC News: Trampolines should be used only under professional supervision,

Trampolines 'dangerous', says top bone surgeon - BBC News: Trampolines should be used only under professional supervision, according to a senior bone surgeon. Broken bones and dislocations are common with this popular toy. They are unlikely to go away as they are such fun. Simple rules can reduce risk...
Source: bbc.co.uk

Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs:

Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs: This study assesses the sensitivity and specificity of an algorithm based on deep machine learning for automated detection of diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema in...
Source: jamanetwork.com

"The Future of Authorship: Dismayed by the loss of trust in facts, and seeming preference for half-truths that appears to

"The Future of Authorship: Dismayed by the loss of trust in facts, and seeming preference for half-truths that appears to be driving our political present, Robert Harington decided to catch up on his reading over the weeked" ... and describes reaching audiences with video and YouTube especially. Nothing...
Source: sspnet.org

Melting Woes: Antarctic Sea Ice at Record Lows : Image of the Day: Shifting winds and warm air temperatures contributed

Melting Woes: Antarctic Sea Ice at Record Lows : Image of the Day: Shifting winds and warm air temperatures contributed to the record-low extent of sea ice around Antarctica in November.
Source: nasa.gov

Trump claims “nobody really knows” what climate scientists definitely know

Trump claims “nobody really knows” what climate scientists definitely know
Source: arstechnica.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

Hair-raising tales: beauty parlour syndrome and the dangers of visiting the salon: A man has been awarded a £90,000 payout

Hair-raising tales: beauty parlour syndrome and the dangers of visiting the salon: A man has been awarded a £90,000 payout as the latest victim of of this phenomenon. It’s not the first story of a haircut gone badly wrong
Source: theguardian.com