IBM Corp., the health insurer WellPoint Inc. and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center announced two Watson-based applications — one to help assess treatments for lung cancer and one to help manage health insurance decisions and claims.
via Insurers Begin Employing IBM’s Supercomputer Watson.
Elementary!
The 20 Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2012 | TechCrunch.
Last year my family bought me a smartphone for Christmas. I stumbled upon this article and thought I’d share it. The only app I recognized and have on my phone is Google Maps. I’m clueless on the rest.
I am an analog man in a digital world.
The malware will lock the screen, rendering it unusable for users. A reboot wouldn’t be helpful since the malware binary is registered as an Autorun executable in normal and in safe boot. The tactics of the malware is to scare the user into thinking they have illegally downloaded material such as MP3s, movies or software. The page will act as a governing body such as the FBI, Cuerpo Nacional de Policia (Spanish National Police) and police forces for many other countries.
Maybe I should pay more attention to the little pop up on my computer reminding me to renew my anti-evildoer software.
A generation of children risks growing up with obsessive personalities, poor self-control, short attention spans and little empathy because of an addiction to social networking websites such as Twitter, a leading neuroscientist has warned.
Baroness Greenfield quoted figures showing that more than half of 13- to 17-year-olds now spend more than 30 hours a week using video games, computers, e-readers, mobile phones and other screen-based technology. She said the human brain evolved to its surroundings and needed a “stimulating environment” to grow and properly develop. But she warned that a reliance on social networking and increased use of computer games could effectively “rewire” the brain.
via Twitter and Facebook ‘harming children’s development’ – Telegraph.
…if you’re reading this from one of the better parts of the global economy, it’s a good time to think about how to be indispensable.
via The Global Arbitrage of Online Work – NYTimes.com.
As a bonafide WFH full time househusband for over six years I found this article fascinating. Even if you are not WFH I recommend you read this article.
“Studies show that about 49 percent of our waking time, our minds have wandered away from the task at hand,” Bahl says. “Especially with digital communication, there’s a lot of texting, there’s a lot of multitasking going on, and people are losing the ability to focus when they really want to focus.”
This isn’t just harmless woolgathering. According to data from Basex, a Yorktown Heights, New York-based business research firm, the estimated annual cost to the U.S. economy in loss of productivity from multitasking is $997 billion and a minimum of 28 billion hours.
NatWest is battling to get on top of a huge backlog of failed payments after a software upgrade on Tuesday night went wrong, resulting in the bank being unable to process payments for its personal and business customers.
via NatWest opens on Sunday as IT glitch causes chaos | Reuters.
In a prior life, I ran information technology operations for two different insurance companies. I changed my professional focus because the stress and pressure of maintaining 100% up-time in a 24/7 environment as my budgets were continuously cut was stupid. Software upgrades should not, I repeat, NOT take down your entire business operations. But in this case it did.
On Monday go give your IT person a BIG HUG. She/he deserves it.
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