Category Archives: Publications
This App Provides the Care for Depression Patients That Their Doctors Don’t
“We’re throwing pills at the problem, but we’re not giving people something to go along with those pills, which is namely the software that helps them understand: Is this working for them?” says Thomas Goetz, cofounder of patient-focused healthcare startup … Continue reading
How Video Chat App Glide Got Deaf People Talking
Glide is far from the first video-chat service: Skype was founded a dozen years ago, and FaceTime debuted on the iPhone 4 in 2010. And of course Snapchat has video. But Glide has one killer feature for deaf people: the … Continue reading
GE Wants to Move All Your Health Data to the Cloud
GE Healthcare just introduced its candidate for that holy grail: a service called GE Health Cloud that will link up medical devices around the world, process the data, and store patient records securely online so they can be viewed from … Continue reading
How This Startup Solves Our Too-Much Data Problem
When I ask Rozan if he’s talking about compression, treating something such as temperature readings like the musical notes that get squeezed into an MP3 file, he says that’s not efficient or fast enough. While Teraki isn’t taking an MP3 approach, … Continue reading
Welcome to the Cloud Hospital, Where Big Data Takes on Mysterious Medical Conditions
For people with obscure conditions, sometimes called mystery diseases, UDP has been a last resort that combines weeklong medical examinations, genetic sequencing, and data analysis in an effort to finally find a diagnosis and treatment for patients who are at … Continue reading
The $21.8 Billion Reason Ultra-Personal Online Ads are Coming
If only online ads were more targeted, Duggal says, everyone would be happy. “We believe that if we can show more relevant ads, it’ll be more useful for users. They will be less inclined to block them, we will have … Continue reading
The Messaging Apps Gunning for Slack
The potential market for group messaging is enormous—in theory, as big as the current market for email. “I communicate through company email about 0 times a day now thanks to @SlackHQ,” reads another typical tweet about Slack. In a market so … Continue reading
How Artificial Intelligence is Finding Gender Bias at Work
Even managers who don’t think they are biased may be—and just their word choices can send a signal. A new wave of artificial intelligence companies aims to spot nuanced biases in workplace language and behavior in order to root them … Continue reading
Making Jack Dorsey CEO of Twitter and Square Isn’t That Crazy
The best CEOs are the ones who build the management capacity that allows the company to run without them. Despite the perception that Apple’s fate was inextricably linked to that of Steve Jobs, the company has continued to thrive since … Continue reading
Hitachi Says It Can Predict Crimes Before They Happen
Hitachi today introduced a system that promises to predict where and when crime is likely to occur by ingesting a panoply of data, from historical crime statistics to public transit maps, from weather reports to social media chatter. Hitachi says … Continue reading