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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Premise Pays App Users To Gather Real-World Economic Data

Imagine Uber and Waze had a baby, who grew up and married Foodspotting. Premise, which gathers real-world economic data by paying people to snap photos and record prices of products in their local markets using the company’s free Android app, … Continue reading

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In The Battle Against Startup Darling Slack, HipChat Throws a Punch

If you haven’t heard of group messaging services, you will soon, most likely because of massive hype about Slack—the current superstar of the tech world. Debuting in early 2014, Slack has eclipsed, at least in the public eye, the former … Continue reading

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CloudFlare’s Matthew Prince Challenges Amazon For Control Of The Net

Wearing jeans and a plaid shirt, the cofounder and CEO of CloudFlare, an Internet edge service provider (more on what that means later), describes a grand vision of sweeping changes in the Internet infrastructure market, with much of it sliding … Continue reading

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