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“Anger is a useful metric” and other evil tips for making money off hyper-partisan content: Plus: A quick way to make

“Anger is a useful metric” and other evil tips for making money off hyper-partisan content: Plus: A quick way to make money off other people's content, an invitation to fact-check U.K. local news, and BuzzBeed vs. BuzzFeed.
Source: niemanlab.org

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

Traces #4 by Mike Caulfield: The Coming Annotation Wars: I went to the iAnnotate conference last week and it was lovely.

Traces #4 by Mike Caulfield: The Coming Annotation Wars: I went to the iAnnotate conference last week and it was lovely. Annotation is slowly coming into its own as a technology; I tend to think of it as a way to "re-webify" a web that has increasingly move...
Source: tinyletter.com

'Big Pork' Wants to Get In on Organ Transplants: The pork industry has always been creative about finding uses for pig byproducts.

'Big Pork' Wants to Get In on Organ Transplants: The pork industry has always been creative about finding uses for pig byproducts.
Source: theatlantic.com

Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cells Climbs: Japanese materials company prototypes a 26.3 percent efficient silicon cell, steps

Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cells Climbs: Japanese materials company prototypes a 26.3 percent efficient silicon cell, steps away from the 29 percent theoretical maximum
Source: ieee.org

Readers seem willing to pay for news sites centered around a place. What about sites built on an issue?: "There are a lot

Readers seem willing to pay for news sites centered around a place. What about sites built on an issue?: "There are a lot of ways to define 'community.' We know it can be built around geography. But there should also be a community of people who care about climate, a community of people who care about...
Source: niemanlab.org

High performance communication by people with paralysis using an intracortical brain-computer interface: People with various

High performance communication by people with paralysis using an intracortical brain-computer interface: People with various forms paralysis not only have difficulties getting around, but also are less able to use many communication technologies including computers. In particular, strokes, neurological...
Source: elifesciences.org

Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal: Scientist leading ‘de-extinction’ effort says Harvard team

Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal: Scientist leading ‘de-extinction’ effort says Harvard team just two years away from creating hybrid mammoth-elephant embryo
Source: theguardian.com

Hans Rosling has passed away: Hans Rosling, professor of international health, has passed away. He died early Tuesday

Hans Rosling has passed away: Hans Rosling, professor of international health, has passed away. He died early Tuesday morning, 7 February 2017, his family announces at the Gapminder foundation web site. Hans Rosling suffered from a pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed one year ago.
Source: ki.se

The future of advertising is ‘fewer, better ads’: "By giving away stuff for free for so long, we’ve created an ad

The future of advertising is ‘fewer, better ads’: "By giving away stuff for free for so long, we’ve created an ad economy that is bigger than it should be," Deep Focus CEO Ian Schafer says.
Source: recode.net

Brexit and Trump explained and how (liberal) globalists have probably got it wrong. "When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism:

Brexit and Trump explained and how (liberal) globalists have probably got it wrong. "When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism: And how moral psychology can help explain and reduce tensions between the two. ... ... globalists often support high levels of immigration and reductions in national sovereignty;...
Source: the-american-interest.com

Labour has shifted focus away from the NHS crisis. For what? | Owen Jones: The NHS should be the party’s main focus right

Labour has shifted focus away from the NHS crisis. For what? | Owen Jones: The NHS should be the party’s main focus right now. Jeremy Corbyn’s pronouncements about immigration and high pay are just distractions
Source: theguardian.com

Remote intelligence will be with us before artificial intelligence concludes Richard Baldwin in his book "The Great Convergence".

Remote intelligence will be with us before artificial intelligence concludes Richard Baldwin in his book "The Great Convergence". He proposes this future by explaining the present state of global trade in terms of three "separation costs"; transport, knowledge, and people. Transport costs fell with...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Fake news gets solved: "Yes, there will always be dark and stupid places on the internet that are just out to make a buck

Fake news gets solved: "Yes, there will always be dark and stupid places on the internet that are just out to make a buck and that will always spread fake news. But most people won't want to go there and great companies won't want to play there."
Source: niemanlab.org

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

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

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

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

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