barrysmyth The FDA Approves the First EKG Reader for Apple WatchFortune Subscribe today and save 79% off the cover price. Choose Your Region: Sign up now to receive FORTUNE's best content, special offers, and much more.
barrysmyth NHS trials smart plaster that can detect blood poisoningEngadget - Nick SummersIt's one of 11 projects in the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is backing a slew of apps and wireless sensors that could help save lives and diagnose patients
barrysmyth This low-cost sKan device creates a heat map of your skin to spotAlphr - Thomas McMullan The sKan system from McMaster University has won the International James Dyson Award A cheap, easy-to-use system for diagnosing melanoma skin cancer …
barrysmyth Best-Ever Streaming Algorithm Found for Huge Amounts of DataWIRED - Kevin Hartnett It’s hard to measure water from a fire hose while it’s hitting you in the face. In a sense, that’s the challenge of analyzing streaming data, which …
barrysmyth Will wearable tech create a two-tier healthcare system?Alphr - Dave Howell Health-tracking devices are on the rise, but what does it mean for people who can’t afford the technology? As part of Apple’s latest product update, …
barrysmythIcon version of the Flipboard logo EU says data privacy deal with US can be improvedapnewsarchive.com BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says that the one-year-old rules governing data transfers with the U.S. are working well but that some …
barrysmyth Diabetes Technology Moves Closer To Making Life Easier For PatientsNPR - Miriam E. TuckerFor people with diabetes, keeping blood sugar levels in a normal range – not too high or too low – is a lifelong challenge. New technologies to ease the burden are emerging rapidly, but insurance reimbursement
barrysmyth Will Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone monitor diabetics' blood sugar levels—without pricking their skin?Quartz - Jean-Louis GasséeApple appears to be working on blood glucose monitoring as a way to address type 2 diabetes.“Stick it in your ear.” Literally. Not all Apple product rumors are equal. Speculation that the headphone jack
barrysmyth Your face could reveal if you have a rare diseaseWired UK - João Medeiros The rarest disease in the world is ribose-5-phosphate isomerase deficiency. First diagnosed in 1999, it is caused by a combination of genetic …
barrysmyth How weather forecasts could help develop 'designer' drugs personalised to your illnessWired UK - Roger Highfield We need a better way to discover blockbuster treatments: it seems the more money companies spend on research and development and the more we …
barrysmyth Why Chatbots Are the Future of Big Data7wdata.be Facebook launched the Messenger Platform Almost exactly a year ago, Facebook launched the Messenger Platform , allowing developers to create their …
barrysmyth Delphi looks to profit from your connected car’s dataExtremeTech - Bill Howard Car components giant Delphi Automotive this week announced alliances with three smaller Israeli and German companies to further advance the connected …
barrysmythTechnology Can “Digital Therapeutics” Be as Good as Drugs?MIT Technology Review - Christina Farr Entrepreneurs are betting on apps that improve—or just replace—prescription medication. What if an app could replace a pill? That’s the big question …
barrysmyth The New Gold Rush? Wall Street Wants your Datamattturck.com A few months ago, Foursquare achieved an impressive feat by predicting, ahead of official company results, that Chipotle’s Q1 2016 sales would be …
barrysmythBlockchain Google’s AI subsidiary turns to blockchain technology to track UK health dataThe Verge - James VincentForays by Google subsidiary DeepMind Health into the UK’s medical institutions have been characterized by two major themes. First, amazing results powered by cutting-edge AI; and second, a lack of transparency
barrysmythAnalytics Google opens Data Studio customized reports tool globally to more than 180 marketsVentureBeat - Paul SawersGoogle is today opening its data analytics and visualization tool Data Studio to more than 180 countries. First introduced as part of its Google Analytics Suite 360 announcement last March, Google Data
barrysmyth Polling is still the best predictor of election results, according to a new studyQuartz - Aamna MohdinPollsters have taken a beating in the last couple of years. They got it so badly wrong in the 2015 British general elections—predicting a race which ended up a Conservative landslide as too close to call—that
barrysmyth Big Data's Unexplored Frontier: Recorded MusicVICE - Michael ByrneWhile still a vast field, a huge part of machine learning exists for what may seem to be a relatively narrow subset of problems. These are problems involving visual processing: character recognition, recognition,
barrysmythTechnology How the Big Data Explosion Has Changed Decision MakingHarvard Business Review - Michael SchrageOrganizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. On the one hand, they desperately seek greater agility; on the other, they genuinely want to all
barrysmyth How to Make Better Predictions When You Don’t Have Enough DataHarvard Business Review - Kira Radinsky and Yoni AcricheWhen Donald Trump first declared his candidacy for President of the United States, most analysts predicted that he has an incredibly small chance of becoming the Republican nominee. Probably the most of
barrysmyth Has The World Of Big Data Forgotten Africa?Forbes - Kalev LeetaruAs Silicon Valley rushes to mine the world’s data, we must not forget that the big data world does not capture the world so evenly. Africa in particular presents a glaring blank hole in so many of the
barrysmyth Data Wrangling at Slackslack.engineering - Ronnie By Ronnie Chen and Diana PojarResearch Data Management via janneke staaks licensed under Creative CommonsFor a company like Slack that strives to be …
barrysmyth How Big Data Is Used To Fight Cyber Crime And Hackers: Fascinating Use Case From BTForbes - Bernard MarrAttempts by hackers to bring down online systems and compromise valuable data are on the rise. Just last month, one of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ever launched was responsible
barrysmyth Top 8 Big Data Tools for Enterprise Developersiamwire.com This guest column is by technology enthusiast & writer, Chris Bateson The term ‘Big Data‘ can no longer be considered a buzzword. As more and more …
barrysmyth This website recommends novels by making sure you can’t judge a book by its coverThe Verge - Chaim GartenbergThere’s an old adage that says “don’t judge a book by its cover.” And while that’s usually used metaphorically to discourage making judgements of a person or situation based on initial impressions, there’s
barrysmythMicrosoft New AI-Based Search Engines are a “Game Changer” for Science Researchscientificamerican.com - Nicola Jones, Nature magazine A free AI-based scholarly search engine that aims to outdo Google Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research …
barrysmythData Visualization 5 open source dashboard tools for visualizing dataopensource.com - 10 Nov 2016 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed To start with a confession, I like dashboards. A lot. I've always been fascinated by finding new and interesting ways to bring meaning to data with …
