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"More Marketing Than Science" - An Anonymous Confession About Deceptive Marketing Published in the British Medical Journal

Roy M. Poses | Health Care Renewal | June 26, 2012

The British Medical Journal just published an anonymous article by a pharmaceutical company insider that explained once again how pharmaceutical companies turn research studies, apparently scholarly articles, and medical education into stealth marketing efforts. Read More »

Chinese Crunch Human Genome With Videogame Chips

Eric Smalley | Wired Enterprise | January 6, 2012

The world’s largest genome sequencing center once needed four days to analyze data describing a human genome. Now it needs just six hours...According to Jackson Lab’s TeHennepe, the feat BGI and NVIDIA pulled off was porting key genome analysis tools to NVIDIA’s GPU architecture, a nontrivial accomplishment that the open source community and others have been working toward. Read More »

Eclipse and Java: An Open Source Trend Analysis

Bill McQuaide | Open Source Delivers | January 12, 2012

2011 was a banner year for the open source community, especially for the Eclipse Foundation, which celebrated its 10th anniversary. In that vein, I decided to look at 2011 open source project trends and compare them to popular Eclipse projects. Read More »

Strata Week: Leaked Documents, Intel Committees, Definition Of Data Mining, And Accumulo

Ann Spencer | O'Reilly Strata | June 21, 2013

I was cranky from absorbing the NSA news dominating many data conversations.[...] My crankiness dissolved a bit after speaking with Q and other Chicago-based people who are working on positive impact data science projects. Read More »

The Growing Ecosystem Around Cloud Infrastructure Platforms

Dave Gruber | Open Source Delivers | June 11, 2012

With all the momentum around moving enterprise software to the cloud, I was curious about the level of support from the open source world, not just relating to the obvious open source cloud initiatives, but also around the commercial cloud providers. So I...started doing some analysis to see which cloud platforms seem to be getting the most attention from the open source community.

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The Web Is in Danger, Copyright Reform Can Break the Internet

Nino Vranešič | El Nino Blog | September 15, 2016

Basic copyright laws and enforcements have been in effect for hundreds of years.
Let’s go back in the history: First Industrial Revolution was based on water and steam power to mechanize production. The second was all about electricity which helped create mass production. The third, connected electronics and information technology to automate production. Now we live in “Fourth Industrial Revolution” which we also call the digital revolution...

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UCLA Targets Malaria with Online Gaming

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | May 3, 2012

UCLA researchers have created a crowd-sourced online gaming system in which players distinguish malaria-infected red blood cells from healthy ones by viewing digital images obtained from microscopes. Read More »