Analysis – Page 41

Analysis, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Medicine, Science & Technology News

Precision medicine is much more than genetics

September 30, 2015

Ricki Lewis, PhD: When President Obama uttered the words “Precision Medicine” in the state-of-the-union address, I scoffed at a politician’s finally noticing a field that’s been around for decades: medical genetics. Was it another case of rebranding, as chemistry has morphed into nanotech? But the definition of Precision Medicine that has emerged is, well, precise: “An approach to disease treatment and prevention that seeks to maximize effectiveness by taking into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle.”

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Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Future, new technology, Science & Technology News

AI and deep machine learning are the future of everything

September 30, 2015

Machine learning plays a part in your everyday life. When you speak to your phone (via Cortana, Siri or Google Now) and it fetches information, or you type in the Google search box and it predicts what you are looking for before you finish, you are doing something that has only been made possible by machine learning.

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

High school suicide attempts can be cut by 23% with regular exercise: Study

September 30, 2015

A new study has found that regular exercise for high school students can reduce suicide by 23%. Exercise had a beneficial effect on both suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Human Behavior, Science & Technology News

Making connections at work matters in the ‘age of loneliness’

September 25, 2015

We all would like to avoid that feeling of loneliness. Research shows it’s terrible for our health; it diminishes cognitive performance and the immune system, increases the risk of heart disease and dementia and hastens early death. And the psychological effects are just as bad; studies show that people need strong social connections to feel happy and find meaning in their lives, and that many of us would actually rather receive mild electroshocks than be alone.

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Analysis, communication, Future, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Social Media

Emotion reshaping journalism and what that means for the future of news

September 25, 2015

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Charlie Beckett: As journalism and society changes emotion is becoming a much more important dynamic in how news is produced and consumed. This is redefining the classic idea of journalistic objectivity, indeed, it is reshaping the idea of news itself.

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Analysis, Future, Healthcare, Medicine, Science & Technology News

Within 30 years the computer will replace the human doctor

September 24, 2015

A $1,000 computer will match processing speed of the human brain – 20 billion calculations per second – by 2020. By 2030, it will simulate the brain power of a small village about 1,000 human minds. By 2048, it will have the brain power of the entire population of the U.S.

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Analysis, Brain, Human Behavior, Science & Technology News

The surprising relationship between mood and productivity

September 24, 2015

Michael Grothaus: There is a quote I love that says, “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” I’ve found that to be true: Anything of significance I’ve accomplished in my life has, at least in part, been due to the attitude I’ve held, even when there were negative factors working against me that were outside my control.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

TV and digital are converging: Charts

September 24, 2015

Last month, Wall Street hammered a few major media stocks. Since then it has become fashionable to say the end of TV is nigh. But as the real world continues to show, while the TV business is undergoing massive change, it’s not going to disappear any time soon — if at all.

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Analysis, government, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

White House declares broadband internet a necessity: Report

September 28, 2015

Percentage of Households with Access to Download Speeds of 25 Megabits per Second or Greater, 2013.

The message of a new report that was commissioned by the White House says that Broadband internet access is no longer a luxury but a necessity.

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Analysis, Apple, Future, Latest Trend, mobile technology, Science & Technology News, Wearables

How the future of wearables will impact the mobile market: report

September 24, 2015

In recent months, there have been a lot of changes to the mobile platform landscape. Innovative reimaginings of the way we connect with the world, new products and undeniably out-of-the-box features have made it an exciting time for consumers and the industry alike. But these big, bold changes have also created some uncertainty (and even anxiety) about where these moves are taking the market – especially the critical wearables segment.

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Globalism, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

China is ‘financially out of control’ according to Citi’s chief economist

September 23, 2015

Citigroup’s chief economist, Willem Buiter, sees a storm brewing in China. He estimated that there is a 55 percent chance of a made-in-China global recession in the not too distant future, which he defines as a period of sub-2 percent global growth.

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Apps, app stores and Apple could cause the demise of the cable industry

September 23, 2015

Benedict Evans, a veteran mobile industry analyst turned venture capitalist, tweeted a chart on September 3, 2015, showing how traditional TV is losing its share of screen to smartphones and tablets. While Evans’ chart was not the first chart to alarm the cable industry, its timing was particularly interesting, as it came exactly a week before Apple’s major update of its Apple TV hardware. In fact, many financial and industry analysts have predicted the demise of the cable industry since rumors of a new Apple TV hardware or an Apple over-the-top streaming service emerged earlier this year.

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