Last weekend, I started a process that some may consider regressive. I began deleting my social media accounts to improve the signal to noise ratio in my life. 10 years ago I wrote about the importance of social media and building networks of colleagues, collaborators and relationships. During that decade our social norms have changed to the point that we walk off cliffs, text while driving, and document every microsecond of our lives on devices that have become the centerpiece of our waking hours. The problem has gotten so profound that Google has introduced artificial intelligence technology to respond to messaging for you - “LOL”, “cute dog”, “a movie at 7pm is great”...
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Out In The Open: The Crusade To Bring More Women To Open Source
Klint Finley | Wired | July 7, 2014
Recent reports from Facebook and Google confirmed what we’ve known all along: the giants of tech have a diversity problem. But in the world of open source, the problem is even worse...
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Pentagon App Store Is Open, But The Shelves Are Pretty Bare
William Matthews | Nextgov.com | May 8, 2014
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s new Mobile Applications Store is open for business, but don’t expect to shop there for military-grade killer software...But of the 19 apps available in the store as of April 30, only one is a unique military application—DoD Safe Helpline...
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Percona Announces Speakers, Tutorials and Sponsors for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017
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Percona |
August 3, 2017
Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL®, MongoDB® and other open source database solutions and services, today revealed the initial roster of speakers, tutorials and sponsors for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017, taking place September 25-27, 2017 at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. The special Early Bird registration discount rate is only available until August 8, 2017, and a special room rate at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel expires on August 14, 2017. Sponsorship opportunities are still available...
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Praekelt.org Advances Open Mobile Technologies for Connected Health in Africa and Around the World
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Praekelt.org |
November 17, 2016
Praekelt.org, which works with governments, NGOs and social enterprises to design, develop, and implement open digital technologies for social change, today is announcing a variety of connected health news and milestones that are improving the lives of millions of people across Africa and influencing technology development in the United States and around the world. Barriers to basic healthcare services and information increase AIDS/HIV and maternal mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries...
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Q&A: Moving From A PCMH To A 'Medical Neighborhood' Via Direct
Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | May 31, 2012
Sharing medical records between different vendors' EHRs is one of the meaningful use Stage 2 measures that some folks would like to see yanked – but not MedAllies' Holly Miller, MD, or John Blair, MD. Read More »
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Quanta Launches Open Compute Solutions, Including Open Rack
Rich Miller | Data Center Knowledge | October 24, 2013
For years, Quanta Computer has been building servers for Facebook and Rackspace based on design concepts advanced by the Open Compute Project (OCP). Today Quanta QCT launched a line of hardware products making those Open Compute designs available to a broader pool of customers.
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Rackspace: Open Compute Not Only Cheaper, It's Also Denser
Yevgenly Sverdlik | DatacenterDynamics FOCUS | September 9, 2013
Slightly more than a year has passed since the Open Compute Project (OCP) announced Open Rack, and slightly more than two years has passed since a small group of engineers at Facebook kicked off the open-source hardware-design project, telling the world that data center users did not have to be beholden to the standards dictated by the few incumbent OEMs on the IT market.
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Raytheon's 'Google for Spies' Tracks You From Social-Media Sharing — And Fast
Rebecca Greenfield | The Atlantic Wire | February 11, 2013
As if you weren't paranoid enough about your Facebook privacy settings, now your ever social-media move can be mined for the purposes of actual spying... Read More »
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Recent Hurricanes Have the Coast Guard Rethinking Social Media’s Role in Rescue and Response
Nicole Ogrysko | Federal News Radio | September 21, 2017
The U.S. Coast Guard is still knee-deep in rescue and response efforts as the third major hurricane in three weeks hits the U.S. and its territories. But the agency has already learned a thing or two from its initial response efforts and is thinking about new tools it should develop to better prepare for future disasters. When 911 call centers quickly overloaded in Houston, residents in the area quickly took to Facebook and Twitter to ask for help...
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Reducing My Digital Burden
By John D. Halamka, MD | August 14, 2016
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Samsung Pushes Further Into Smart Home, Digital Healthcare And Virtual Reality At Developer Conference
Phil Goldstein | Fierce Wireless | November 13, 2014
Samsung Electronics kicked off its second annual developer conference with a bevy of announcements intended to ignite enthusiasm around its software for its wearable, digital health, virtual reality and smart home solutions...
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Security's Future Belongs To Open Source
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | May 20, 2014
It's really not a debate question, it's just the way it is. The world runs on Linux and open-source software...
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Servers Will Lead the Data Center Evolution
Industry Perspectives | Data Center Knowledge | September 19, 2013
The last decade has seen the data center focus on a number of key technologies in order to improve efficiency. Since 2000, virtualization has been at the heart of increasing server utilization, allowing businesses to consolidate hardware and reap significant cuts in operating expenses. This was followed by a holistic focus on data center design, from the layout of suites to the efficiencies of HVAC and electricity supply. However, data center design will turn its focus on the server in order to make the next step to increase efficiency.
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Silicon Valley Was Going to Disrupt Capitalism. Now It’s Just Enhancing It
Evgeny Morozov | The Guardian | August 6, 2016
The tech giants thought they would beat old businesses but the health and finance industries are using data troves to become more, not less, resilient. The chances that, in a few years’ time, people will be able to receive basic healthcare without interacting with a technology company became considerably smaller after recent announcements of two intriguing but not entirely unpredictable partnerships. One is between Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline...
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Social Media Can 'Buoy' Disaster Preparedness and Response
Molly Merrill | Healthcare IT News | July 28, 2011
Social media such as Facebook, Twitter and foursquare may be important keys to improving the public health system's ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More »
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