Month: July 2019

Google has a solution for the creaking inefficiencies of modern healthcare: push notifications. No, not those annoying reminders to practice your Arabic lesson on Duolingo or subscribe to a new Lyft deal. Google is betting its alerts can save your life. The company is building an artificial-intelligence-driven system that promises to give doctors an early
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A new walkway runs between Buildings 40 and 41 at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft For Microsoft to maintain its trillion-dollar valuation, keeping employees happy is crucial. That’s especially true around Seattle, home to Amazon, big Google and Apple operations and a burgeoning start-up scene. With talent in such high demand, Microsoft is in
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Kids love YouTube. They love the pinging of the xylophones in the upbeat “Thank you song” on CoCoMelon, a channel with more than 53 million subscribers that plays animated nursery rhymes. They love watching other kids open and test toys, as they do on Ryan ToysReview (subscriber count: 20,749,585). And they love the Baby Shark
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Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA in 2004. Epstein is connected with several prominent people including politicians, actors and academics. Rick Friedman | Corbis News | Getty Images Victoria’s Secret owner, L Brands, has hired outside counsel to review the company’s relationship with accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a company spokesperson said on Thursday.
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The titans of social media are trapped, and we’re all suffering for it. As free services, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube monetize you by keeping you engaged, so they can show you more ads. The services are designed to exploit our brain chemistry, flashing us notifications and giving us one more hit of algorithm-recommended video. If
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Charging an electric car Mario Gutiérrez. | Moment | Getty Images The U.K. government has announced £80 million ($99.7 million) of investment to develop the “next generation of electric vehicles” and, potentially, hybrid aircraft. Authorities said Monday that the funding would, among other things, help to reduce carbon emissions from industries including transport, construction and
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