Last weekend, I started a process that some may consider regressive. I began deleting my social media accounts to improve the signal to noise ratio in my life. 10 years ago I wrote about the importance of social media and building networks of colleagues, collaborators and relationships. During that decade our social norms have changed to the point that we walk off cliffs, text while driving, and document every microsecond of our lives on devices that have become the centerpiece of our waking hours. The problem has gotten so profound that Google has introduced artificial intelligence technology to respond to messaging for you - “LOL”, “cute dog”, “a movie at 7pm is great”...
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OpenShift Commons Gathering Event Preview
By Diane Mueller | October 1, 2016
We're just two months out from the OpenShift Commons Gathering coming up on November 7, 2016 in Seattle, Washington, co-located with KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. OpenShift Origin is a distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment. Origin adds developer and operations-centric tools on top of Kubernetes to enable rapid application development, easy deployment and scaling, and long-term lifecycle maintenance for small and large teams. And we're excited to say, the 1.3 GA release of OpenShift Origin, which includes Kubernetes 1.3, is out the door! Hear more about the release from Lead Architect for OpenShift Origin, Clayton Coleman...
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OSEHRA 2013: Talend Experts to Present at Summit & Workshop
Press Release |
Talend, Inc., OSEHRA |
August 27, 2013
Talend...today announced its experts will be giving two presentations at the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) Summit & Workshop, taking place September 4-6 in Bethesda, MD. The first session, “Secure Interoperability with RPC and HL7 using Apache,” will be led by Edward Ost, technical director at Talend, and Hadrian Zbarcea, Talend principal Apache architect. The second session, “Leveraging the Cloud to Enable Community Innovation,” will be a joint session with Edward Ost and Todd Reedy, systems engineer at Google. Read More »
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Out In The Open: The Crusade To Bring More Women To Open Source
Klint Finley | Wired | July 7, 2014
Recent reports from Facebook and Google confirmed what we’ve known all along: the giants of tech have a diversity problem. But in the world of open source, the problem is even worse...
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Patent Trolls Are Now Crushing Parts Of The Developer Economy
Haydn Shaughnessy | Forbes | July 4, 2013
News that Boston University is suing Apple AAPL -0.59% over parts for the iPhone and iPad (the component in question is called “highly insulating monocrystalline gallium nitride thin films”), is one more dull thud of the patent lawyers’ dossier on the smartphone scene. [...] Read More »
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Patent Trolls Are Starting To Get Trampled
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | September 24, 2014
The Open Invention Network now has over a thousand licensees and the court cases are starting to go against the patent trolls...
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Patent War Goes Nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-Owned “Rockstar” Sues Google
Joe Mullin | Ars Technica | October 31, 2013
Rockstar paid $4.5 billion for Nortel patents and has launched a major attack. Read More »
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Physicians’ Growing Use Of The Internet: Where Trust And Value Drive Information Search
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Health Populi | December 20, 2012
This is the fifth and final post of my thinking about physicians seeking health information in the context of current health care dynamics and prospects for health reform on behalf of Elsevier and their launch of the ClinicalKey Experience tour.
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Pilots Complain That Glare From The World’s Biggest Solar Power Plant Is Blinding Them
Todd Woody | Quartz | March 18, 2014
Airplane pilots reported that they were blinded by the intense sunlight reflecting off some of the 340,000 mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System on the California-Nevada border. Yet six months elapsed before their reports reached the regulator that oversees the plant, which is located near the Las Vegas airport.
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PLOS' ASAP Program Recognizes Pioneers Who Have Used Open Access Research To Benefit Society
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The Public Library of Science (PLOS) |
May 2, 2013
PLOS, the Public Library of Science, today is launching the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) that recognizes the use of scientific research, published through Open Access, which has led to innovations in any field that benefit society. Major sponsors include the Wellcome Trust and Google. Read More »
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Pokémon Go Might Be the Fastest-Growing Unintentional Health App
Heather Mack | MobiHealthNews | July 11, 2016
It’s a fast-growing fitness app that wasn’t intended to be one. Crippling servers, blowing up social media and getting kids and Millennials moving, Pokémon Go has been an instant hit since it launched last week. Pokémon Go, which uses augmented reality to allow users to capture monsters in real life, has an estimated 7.5 million downloads in its one-week life -- putting it on track to outpace Twitter's daily active user count. There is a surge of Google searches for all things Pokémon. It’s bigger than Tinder. And it isn’t even worldwide yet...
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PRISM Could Put The Kibosh On US Trade Abroad
Richard Adhikari | E-Commerce Times | July 26, 2013
Europeans are not taking revelations about the U.S. government's PRISM surveillance program in stride, and that could be exceedingly bad for U.S. businesses. One sector that's already seeing cause for alarm is cloud services. Read More »
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Public Alerts For Natural Disasters Now Available In Taiwan
Eric Chu | Google.org Blog | July 9, 2013
As Taiwan heads into another Typhoon season, the need for reliable and easily accessible information about where the next storm will hit and how to stay safe has never been more important. That’s why we’re launching Google Public Alerts and a dedicated Google Crisis Map for Taiwan. Read More »
Redefining Impact Through Open Access
Staff Writer | The World Bank | October 18, 2013
In the 18 months since the World Bank announced its Open Access Policy with the launch of the Open Knowledge Repository, a transformation has taken place in the way the Bank’s published knowledge reaches the public. The frequency and volume of content being accessed doubled from one million downloads in the first year to two million in the subsequent six months. But measuring the impact goes beyond counting downloads and visits. Read More »
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Reducing My Digital Burden
By John D. Halamka, MD | August 14, 2016
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Revealed: Google AI Has Access to Huge Haul of NHS Patient Data
Hal Hodson | New Scientist | April 29, 2016
It’s no secret that Google has broad ambitions in healthcare. But a document obtained by New Scientist reveals that the tech giant’s collaboration with the UK’s National Health Service goes far beyond what has been publicly announced. The document – a data-sharing agreement between Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust – gives theclearest picture yet of what the company is doing and what sensitive data it now has access to...
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