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Are you taking care of business? Your cybersecurity to-do list
Dr. Eric Cole Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThe king of rock and roll, Elvis Presley was famous for "Taking Care of Business." But when it comes to your business's cybersecurity dashboard, do you have the right metrics and visibility to mount a proper cyberdefense? Or are your cyberoptics just along for the ride?
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Midwest emerging as bustling tech hub
Bill Becken Science & TechnologyTech businesses are leaving Silicon Valley, literally and figuratively. But where to? As an initial answer, it was perhaps 2017's biggest business story: Amazon, the online retailer, is looking for a new urban setting as an alternative to the Seattle metro area for its second North American headquarters (HQ2).
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Can Uber, Lyft really help patients make more doctor’s appointments?
Cait Harrison Science & TechnologyUber has a new plan to help Americans who need rides to their medical appointments. On March 1, the ride-sharing company launched Uber Health, a new service that partners with healthcare providers to set up rides for patients to and from the doctor's office.
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Surveyors: Stand up and be heard
Michael J. Pallamary Construction & Building MaterialsOne of the best ways for an organization to advance is to have a unified voice, one that represents a broad spectrum of interests, common to all members. The medical profession learned this a long time ago with the universal adoption of the Hippocratic Oath. In the United States, this concept evolved into the canons of the American Medical Association, commonly known as the AMA.
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Nuclear standoff with North Korea prompts interest in new weapons
Bill Becken Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityWith rogue nations such as North Korea developing intercontinental ballistic missiles systems (ICBMs) able to reach North America, the U.S. government is showing new interest in using high-powered radio frequency microwave weapons (HPMs) to disable them.
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AI on the rise in healthcare
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationThe global artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare market was valued at $714.4 million in 2016, but this train is cruising at a speed faster than nearly every other technology and is projected to grow at a rate of more than 35 percent through 2025.
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Google offers global geospatial analysis for the masses
Bill Becken Science & TechnologyA plethora of global remote-sensing technologies acquire terabytes of environmental data minute by minute. Much of it is routed to and through the cloud. This was not the case perhaps a decade ago.
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The modelers are coming: How will urban planners respond?
Lucy Wallwork Civil & GovernmentPlanning our cities is a fundamentally future-oriented endeavor. To work out which train lines, apartment blocks and zoning policies to put in place today, we need to do our best to anticipate what the consequences will be for the future.
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Google wants marketing emails to act like webpages
Emma Fitzpatrick MarketingSocial networks evolve like crazy. For example, Facebook's look has changed drastically over the last 14 years. On the flip side, emails that were sent back in 2004 look eerily similar to those mailed in 2018.
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Scope of nanotechnology widens in 2018
Bill Becken EngineeringThere's miniaturization, and then there's nanotechnology. Global markets are growing and multiplying for both. But it's the point of nanotech to effect desired technical solutions and outcomes with ever-smaller — much, much smaller — building blocks of materials.
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