Is your sleep tracker keeping you awake?

In 2023, 41.4% of people worldwide used sleep trackers, a $2.22 billion market. Promising better rest, experts warn they might fuel anxiety instead. So, while they claim to enhance your slumber, are sleep trackers your secret to sweet dreams or just data-driven drama?

The database debate

The database debate

Oracle’s bold vision to build a national medical records database has put this challenging issue back in the conversation with its recent acquisition of Cerner. We think it’s worth a snapshot look at the selected opinions of various experts.

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This is for the birds!

This is for the birds!

There is more to bird chirping than you may realize. Officially called birdsong, these natural sounds are used in business and educational settings, and researchers rely on their clarity and consistency to study environmental disturbances.

Is that music to your ears?

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Something for your sweet tooth

Something for your sweet tooth

Doughnuts anyone? And while you’re dunkin’ one in your morning coffee, you can contemplate how the hole came to be in the middle…because it wasn’t always that way.

The story of what might seem to be about a contemporary confection actually had ancient beginnings, but we’re just going to cut to the chase

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Do you smell a good idea here?

Do you smell a good idea here?

Can you imagine a smell library that stores data collected with biochemical sensors, optics and machine learning? Can you envision an AI-powered digital nose that uses similar receptors to those in your nose to smell whatever you can smell?

Sounding a bit too futuristic?

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A formula for achieving ‘flow’?

A formula for achieving ‘flow’?

In the groove? In sync? In the flow? Whatever you call the state of mind associated with peak creativity and productivity, psychologists at Yale University say they have developed a mathematical theory to cultivate such a seemingly subjective experience. Is it possible to “be in the flow” with a formula?

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What’s up in the clouds?

What’s up in the clouds?

From a recent interview with Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, chief medical officer and director of machine learning at Amazon Web Services, we captured some takeaways about the benefits of cloud computing for medical device design, manufacturing and capabilities/performance.

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