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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-technology-electronic-records/switch-to-electronic-health-records-tied-to-fewer-hospital-deaths-idUSKBN1KG318
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Hospitals that switch from paper to electronic health records may eventually see lower death rates than they had before, but a U.S. study also suggests that fatalities may first increase as the transition gets underway.
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https://time.com/5349896/23andme-glaxo-smith-kline/
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23andMe is partnering with big pharma company GlaxoSmithKline. Here's what that means for consumer rights and genetic privacy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_lzonfE3I
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Our planet has a carbon problem -- if we don't start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, we'll grow hotter, faster. Chemical engineer Jennifer Wilco...
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mars-may-have-lake-liquid-water-search-life
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A 15-year-old Mars orbiter has spotted signs of a salty lake beneath the Red Planet’s south polar ice sheets.
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/economic-impact-north-americas-most-vital-trade-corridor
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Each year 230 million metric tons of cargo transit the waterways of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region, home to an estimated 30 percent of total economic activity in the United States and Canada.
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https://newatlas.com/stanford-shape-labs-shapeshift-vr-touch/55570/
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Anyone who's played a full-scale VR game knows how insanely immersive and real this tech already feels. And the next step is to find a way for people to actually feel virtual objects. The shapeShip tabletop unit developed at Stanford is the latest device designed to bring the sense of touch to VR.
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https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2018/07/23/consumption-taxes-shrink
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The Parliamentary Budget Office report into Australia’s future tax base paints a picture of declining revenues and increasing demands on the public purse.
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https://sputniknews.com/asia/201807221066595641-china-large-AI-umanned-subs/
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China is hoping huge, new, smart unmanned submarines will help give its naval fleet an edge in crucial waterways like the South China Sea and the western Pacific.
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https://battellemedia.com/archives/2018/07/the-tragedy-of-the-data-commons
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Before, and after? A theme of my writing over the past ten or so years has been the role of data in society. I tend to frame that role anthropologically: How have we adapted to this new element in our society? What tools and social structures have we created in response to its emergence as…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvYcWxycgY
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New York City cars will soon have to pay a fee to drive downtown. Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out VICE News for m...
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https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/federal/australian-governments-concede-great-barrier-reef-headed-for-collapse-20180720-p4zsof.html
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Critics say the official plan recognises the climate change threat but ignores Australia’s weak emissions targets.
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http://time.com/5342743/nasa-moon-mars/
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Donald Trump signed the first of three Space Policy Directives, putting manned lunar exploration back at the top of the NASA agenda.
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https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/a-bank-branch-for-the-digital-age
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Far from rendering the bank branch obsolete, digital technology holds the key to the branch of the future.
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https://onestepoffthegrid.com.au/rooftop-solar-generate-coal-2040-saving-billions/
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https://phys.org/news/2018-07-zigzags-scientists-uncover-mechanism-stabilizes.html
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https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2155606/beijings-new-zaha-hadid-designed-airport-showcase-latest-facial-recognition
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Beijing’s new US$12 billion airport will feature cutting-edge surveillance technology to ease bottlenecks in security and immigration screening.
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https://www.insider.com/we-tested-british-airways-new-robot-that-is-reducing-delays-by-54-percent-2018-7
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British Airways' new electric mototok robot is reducing pushback delays by 54% at Heathrow Airport. The machine is simple to use and only requires one operator. British Airways allowed us to push back a £200 million aircraft with one after a 15-minute training session.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdU1WTBJMl0
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Watch the video I made for Squarespace: https://youtu.be/h3wWyaWpRtYCheck out my new personal channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDA1X6RrhzZQOHOGvC3Ks...
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https://www.americanbanker.com/news/why-banks-like-barclays-are-testing-quantum-computing
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Barclays, Morgan Stanley, True Positive and other firms are turning to the technology for simulations and problems that demand large quantities of computing power.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/real-junk-food-project-food-waste-shop-supermarketadam-smith-pay-what-you-feel-a8443496.html
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Customers at supermarket-style stores pay whatever they want for fruit, veg, bread, tins, cakes and even Nando's chicken – all rescued from going to landfill