Technology

Open Payments Program Database Deserves Time To Improve

The Obamacare website is not the only thing that debuted incomplete, buggy, difficult to use and nonetheless mandated. The Open Payments Program database, also known as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, was 12 years in the making and designed to report ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2014 - 10:51am

Subconscious Menu: Eyetracking Technology Detects Your Pizza Desires…Or Not

You're a vegetarian? But your subconscious ordered the Meat Lover's! BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA By John M. Henderson, University of South Carolina ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 8 2014 - 12:58pm

Artificial Intelligence Lets Machines Weld The Emotional With The Physical

Not now! Roboscribe is busy creating a masterpiece (of heuristic analysis). gastev, CC BY By Peter McOwan, Queen Mary University of London The human race has long designed and used tools to help us solve problems, from flint axes to space shuttles. They a ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 10 2014 - 5:00pm

Oversharing Algorithm: Facebook "Deep Learning" Could Prevent You From Drunk Posting

"You think you're in pain now, but this is not going to look good on Facebook tomorrow." Stefano Bolognini/ National Museum of Denmark By Arosha K Bandara, The Open University ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 13 2014 - 1:27pm

New Test Finds Hidden Toxicity Of Antidepressants Earlier In Development

Though drugs spend years in development and hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars are spent in increasingly demanding clinical trials before approval, a lot of prescription drugs get added warning labels- or can even be withdrawn- after release ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2014 - 12:51pm

New Synthetic Molecules Mimic Antibodies

New molecules known as synthetic antibody mimics (SyAMs) attach themselves simultaneously to disease cells and disease-fighting cells. The result is a highly targeted immune response, similar to the action of natural human antibodies;  with both the targe ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2014 - 12:21pm

In A Real World Test, 49 Percent Of Patients Don't Want Health Care Providers To Have Their Info

In an era where hackers can easily hack into department store credit card records or Sony Corporation and the US National Security Agency is spying on everyone, it's no surprise people with a choice opt not to have all of the electronic medical recor ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2014 - 7:00pm

Cycling for Science #1- Tensegrity

Cycling for Science #1- Tensegrity Velocipedological science Cycling is more than just a pleasant way to keep fit: it is a pleasant way to learn some interesting velocipedological science facts.  Don't just exercise your muscles: exercise your brain ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Dec 17 2014 - 7:10pm

Is Big Data Taking Over The Fashion Industry?

Big data may be taking over the fashion industry's runways, according to an analysis of relevant words and phrases from fashion reviews. At the Workshop of Information Technology and Systems in Auckland, researchers analyzed 6,629 runway reviews of 8 ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2014 - 6:13pm

Pilot Project For Removal Of CO2 From Deep Waters

In the former mining area Herrerias in Andalusia, the deep waters of Pit Lake Guadiana show extremely high concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide (CO 2).  Levels are so high that if it were to bubble up, human beings close-by would be jeopardized. To d ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2014 - 10:47am