“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 Iodine.
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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 ability to leave a video message rather than having to prearrange a live call.
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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 anywhere. The company, which promises Health Cloud meets U.S. HIPAA privacy requirements for healthcare records, is launching the new service in late spring of 2016 with radiology devices like CT, ultrasound, and MRI scanners, and starting off with 500,000 of GE’s machines.
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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, the company is, in a sense, treating data like music. Sensor readings aren’t simply streams of bits; they are sets of frequencies. And mathematicians have long had tools for describing complex frequencies with simpler components.
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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 wit’s end.
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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 to show fewer ads, advertisers will be willing to spend more for each ad. And the revenue for publishers and data providers like us will go up.”
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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 vast, there are plenty of other companies challenging Slack for a piece of the pie.
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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 out.
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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 his untimely departure. It’s grown to be the most valued company in the world.
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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 that “about half a dozen” U.S. cities will join a proof of concept test.
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