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The First Trailer for The Origins of Alien is Almost as Haunting as its Inspiration

It'll cover the entire production of the 1979 movie, picking apart production design, thematic elements, and Scott’s process for bringing the claustrophobic corridors of the Nostromo alive. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/08/the-first-trailer-for-the-origins-of-alien-is-almost-as-haunting-as-its-inspiration/
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Automating HIPAA Compliant Hosting By Using DevOps

DevOps is no longer just an industry buzzword. It has become the standard development practice irrespective of the size of the business and across a range of industry verticals. The healthcare industry which historically has been a laggard when it comes to adopting new technologies is quickly catching pace and has started to see the advantages of hosting healthcare data in the cloud using DevOps. Managing compliance in healthcare software There has been a huge surge in the amount of healthcare data being generated in recent times. Apart from the EMRs and EHRs, there has been a tremendous increase in the amount of healthcare-related data produced by the health monitoring devices and other health applications as well. Compliance with the regulations is a must when storing health data. The sensitive patient data is subject to several laws and regulations like HIPAA, HITECH, GDPR and so on. With new and stringent compliance norms being rolled out and increasingly aware consumers who are
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Mark Zuckerberg Is a Slumlord

The 2.4 billion people crammed within Facebook’s walls are spending their data so someone else can maximise profit at the expense of safety and quality of life. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/08/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-slumlord/
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Voices in AI – Episode 94: A Conversation with Amy Webb

[voices_in_ai_byline] About this Episode Episode 94 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with fellow futurist and author Amy Webb on the nature of artificial intelligence and the morality and ethics tied to its study. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Transcript Excerpt Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by Gigaom, and I’m Byron Reese. Today, I’m so excited. My guest is Amy Webb. She is a quantitative futurist. She is the founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute. She’s the professor of strategic foresight at NYU’s Stern School of Business. She’s a co-founder of Spark Camp. She holds a BS in game theory and economics, and an MS in journalism from Columbia, and she’s a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. And she- as if all of that weren’t enough, she’s the author of a new book called The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity . Welcome to the show, Amy. Amy Webb: Hello. Thank yo
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Report: Facebook Content Mods Say Company Therapists Were Forced to Share Session Details

Adding to an already ridiculously long list of complaints, now Facebook’s content moderators say a higher-up asked company-appointed counsellors to share their confidential information. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/08/report-facebook-content-mods-say-company-therapists-were-forced-to-share-session-details/
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BI Consolidation Roundup: Who is best positioned to win after the recent M&A activity?

Read Andrew Brust’s Full Report Report Summary: Business Intelligence Market Consolidation What took place from April through June, 2019 was the most significant BI market consolidation in more than a decade. Sure, market events like the emergence of Tableau and self-service BI in general were significant on their own. But these were nonetheless gradual and discrete developments, part of an evolving ecosystem that welcomes new vendors, and new offerings from existing vendors, over periods of years. The recent consolidation contrasts markedly with such typical calm and orderly progression. With a slew of deals in a period of just 10 weeks, the market calculus has been transformed. To understand this better, we need to examine the deals. The race is on, in the white-hot areas of cloud, analytics, and AI. The recent BI market consolidation demonstrates this and it’s the reason even more mergers are likely to come. The bigger mergers beg questions around the parties’ compatibility,
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US Food and Drug Administration Is Investigating 127 Incidents of Seizures Possibly Linked to Use of E-Cigarettes

While no definite causal link has been proven between vaping and seizures, regular e-cigarette users might still do well to be wary. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/08/us-food-and-drug-administration-is-investigating-127-incidents-of-seizures-possibly-linked-to-use-of-e-cigarettes/
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