Smartphones May Be the Key to Better Health Care
By Mary KozelkaRock CenterIt happened on flight from Washington, DC to San Diego.The pilot’s urgent question reverberated over the intercom during a cross country flight, “Is there a doctor on board?” A passenger was experiencing severe chest pains, and luckily for him Dr. Eric Topol was sitting in seat 6A. Topol is the energetic chief academic officer of Scripps Health, a prominent cardiologist and the foremost figure in the field...
BMW announces compatibility with four new iOS apps, removable in-car LTE router, we go hands-on
At this year’s New York International Auto Show BMW is expanding its portfolio of connected apps — by four. The company announced iOS integration for Audible, Glympse, Rhapsody and TuneIn Radio and we couldn’t help but swing by to check them all out. This integration (which also will work on Connected Minis) entails an update to those existing iOS apps. In other words, you won’t need a dedicated BMW app nor...
HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now
The story, “HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now,” posted to the wire on Thursday, incorrectly characterized Cloudera. Link: HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with nowicompare car insurance
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Scott Forstall, then Apple’s iOS chief, stood onstage at the WWDC keynote last June and showed the audience a series of slides illustrating the many uses to which an iPad could be put. The one that resonated with me appeared for just a moment: It showed a boy with autism using an iPad. That scenario plays out for me every day. I work with special-needs children, and I also have a severe visual impairment. The situation depicted is...
University of Illinois’ Blue Waters supercomputer now running around the clock
Blue Waters supercomputer now open for 24/7 science! Today the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign entered production, meaning the behemoth capable of performing quadrillions of calculations every second and working with quadrillions of bytes of data is now crunching numbers around the clock to help scientists and engineers across the country tackle a wide variety of science and engineering...
