Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. The pandemic appears to have supercharged voice app usage, which was already on an upswing. According to a study by NPR and Edison Research, the percentage of voice-enabled device owners who use commands at least once a day …
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I like to pride myself on my fast metabolism, but I’ve also noticed that I tend to have gut issues more easily than most. There was a time when it got pretty bad that I even decided to buy prebiotic pills to see if they’d help. DNA health kits aren’t …
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Read More »How an Ill-Fated Fishing Voyage Helped Us Understand Covid-19
American Dynasty, a commercial trawler, departed Seattle one day in May to fish for hake off the Washington coast. Before leaving, its 122 crew members were screened for the coronavirus using the highly accurate polymerase chain reaction (P.C.R.) method, and all the results came back negative. But because those tests …
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Recently, Dr. Aaron Carroll wrote a wonderful article on COVID-19 and personal risk for the New York Times. The article dove deep into how we, as humans, assess risk in our daily lives and how that normal assessment of risk doesn’t actually match up well to the realities of the …
Read More »How scientists are using supercomputers to better understand COVID-19
Alongside the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), IBM announced in March that it would help coordinate an effort to provide hundreds of petaflops of compute to scientists researching the coronavirus. As part of the newly launched COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium, IBM pledged to assist in …
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When you buy auto insurance, you want to know what you’re getting for your money. Still, reading the fine print of your policy isn’t most peoples’ idea of a good time. Fortunately, there’s a shorter, easier-to-read document that clearly lays out exactly what protection you’re getting in exchange for your …
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Edge computing has claimed a spot in the technology zeitgeist as one of the topics that signals novelty and cutting-edge thinking. For a few years now, it has been assumed that this way of doing computing is, one way or another, the future. But until recently the discussion has been …
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