Oct 31
Tonight millions of kid kids and grownup kids will dress up as all kinds of things. I for, one, am going with a group of friends as Muppets with a disco twist. What are you dressing up as?
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Oct 31
Google says it’s cracking down on third-party Google Voice apps, expanding SMS support in Hangouts early next year
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Google didn’t have much to say about Google Voice integration in its Hangouts app when it announced the latest version earlier this week, but the company’s Nikhyl Singhal has filled in a few more details on his Google+ page today. Singhal notes that while the update (and its SMS support) only works …
Oct 31
You may have read about the lost cow tunnels of New York City yesterday
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Oct 31
Warning: The information herein is not easily forgotten.
(Credit: Screenshot by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore/CNET)
An app that tracks the presence of superbugs and their sensitivities to drugs by ZIP code is making the rounds among doctors in the US. The app, which has been downloaded more than 100,000 times since it was released in early October, shot to the top of the Apple App Store’s free medical app list in its first week alone and now boasts an average user rating of 4+ stars.
Epocrates Bugs + Drugs, a free app for iOS devices, uses aggregated electronic health record (EHR) data and geotagging to help users see both superbug prevalence and sensitivity to drugs by location. The developers, Athenahealth and Epocrates, add more than 6,000 lab isolate data points (from urine, blood, and skin samples) every day to keep the results fresh.
While the app isn’t for a layperson — unless you’re into regular confirmation that E. coli is alive and well all around us — its clinical use is clearly anything but niche. Results that are pulled from Athenahealth’s cloud-based clinical database of 15 million patient records can be viewed by specimen type an… [Read more]
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Oct 31
If you’re wondering where heaven on Earth is, it’s in China. Surprising, I know. But it’s undeniable after you see this ginormous pink and green ball pit found at the Kerry Hotel in Shanghai. It’s the world’s largest ball pit and stretches over 80 feet long and 40 feet wide. The pit is filled with the amazingness of one million plastic balls.
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Oct 31
Now that we know what smartphone market share looked like in the third quarter when broken down by manufacturer, it’s time to compare performance by platform. As you’d imagine, the world is still Android’s oyster. Strategy Analytics estimates that the OS has crossed the symbolic 80 percent mark, …
Oct 31
Because unfortunately movie versions of medical textbooks are all too rare, if you’re cramming for an upcoming exam on the human skeletal system and the last thing you want to do is spend the night reading, this wonderful $32 tome can be turned into an almost six-foot tall paper skeleton. Nothing beats hands-on experience as a learning tool, right?
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Oct 31
The Nexus 5 pricing has been the subject of many rumors, all of which can be put to rest now that Google has made the handset official. The handset is listed now in the Google Play Store, where we see that many of the rumors has the price spot-on or very nearly so, and now […]
Oct 31
Oct 31
That’s right music lovers, innovators and entertainers- It’s almost time
for Moogfest 2014, and the crew is looking for 5-10 awesome new
multimedia experiences for the festival!
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