Apr 19
Heartbleed, the gaping flaw
Jan 08
We all have those Facebook friends—friends with Very Strong Political Opinions they just can’t keep to themselves. While the political memes popular on Facebook pander shamelessly to people who already agree, sometimes the memes get twisted. And mutated. And even co-opted by the opposite party.
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Dec 20
Lupie Leyva has answered questions about immigration issues, taught people how to use email, and once even helped a person make an appointment to see a family member who was incarcerated. "I’ve worked in public libraries for 10 years," she says. "Nothing surprises me anymore."
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Dec 01
Back in October when HealthCare.gov launched and then promptly became an enormous shit show, the Obama administration imposed December 1st as their deadline for getting the site’s act together. And today’s the day! So how’s stuff going?
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Oct 31
The "tech surge" that President Obama promised to fix the very broken HealthCare.gov portal just got a lot more tech-savvy. According to Bloomberg, companies like Google, Oracle and Red Hat are now swooping in to lead the recovery effort. But is it enough?
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Oct 31
The HealthCare.gov launch did not go so well. Some people paid the website a visit only to be greeted by a blank screen. Others found error messages or talked to misleading call center reps or had their personal information compromised. The whole thing is borked, and everybody knows it.
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Oct 27
First it was a bad script
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Oct 25
If you’ve been watching C-SPAN—and who hasn’t?—you’ll know the House Energy and Commerce Committee started hearings yesterday with the government contractors for HealthCare.gov, the maybe-not-quite-ready-for-prime-time website for the Affordable Care Act.
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Sep 25
Aging is part of being human. Eventually, that spring in your step will be replaced by a slow (but hopefully steady) pace as you near your sixties. People who are in this stage of life and are frustrated at the limitations of old age will be happy to hear about the Ankle Walking Assist Device (abbreviated as AWAD).
These exoskeleton robo-boots come with a waist-mounted battery pack. Once they’re on, they immediately get to work. Its sensors will detect whenever its wearer is about to take a step. It will then give a robotic boost of power to provided added strength when the person takes that step.
AWAD won’t give you super-human speed, but it will help older folks and those with limited strength get around at a faster pace than normal. AWAD was developed by Yaskawa Electric, who hopes to launch the system sometime in 2015.
[via Akihabara News via Dvice]
Sep 18
Google’s making a long-term business bet that, at first glance, may seem out of the ordinary: it’s getting into healthcare. Its new company, Calico, will be focused on addressing the illnesses affecting the geriatric community, as well as aging in general. In Google CEO Larry Page’s own words, the new enterprise, headed up by current Apple and Genentech chair Arthur D. Levinson, is geared towards “moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology,” so expect some pretty futuristic developments to come from the initiative.
In an interview given to Time magazine, Page said that Calico will re-evaluate traditional thinking and approaches to healthcare, like cancer research, the advancement of which he concludes might “not [be] as big an advance as you might think.” Page isn’t dismissing that vein of research altogether, but claims any cures could only add about three years to a survivor’s life — a trivial gain in the long-run. Though he was willing to go on record with what’s wrong with the current state of healthcare R&D, Page wouldn’t elaborate as to what future products Calico could produce, saying only that Google, with its vast resources, should be doing more to contribute to the world’s greater good.
Source: Google
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