IBM just announced a blockbuster deal where it will acquire Red Hat for $34 billion. They essentially bought IBM at a $13.5 billion premium. If you’ve been paying attention to what happens when companies are bought at a premium, you could probably…
A recent study has shown that children are three times as likely to wake up to their mother’s voice than to the loud beeping of a smoke alarm. As a former adolescent who was required to wake up and go to school…
Healthcare data breaches are evidently part and parcel of an era where we are trying ton integrate healthcare with technology. It looks like a computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov was hacked earlier this month. The number of affected persons was stated…
Facebook has had a rough year in 2018. Data breeches, privacy act violations, election meddling, and who could forget the epic July 25th earnings report and conference call that resulted in the company’s stock plummeting from $217 to $159? Evidently, things are…
If you thought biometric shopping carts were the future, just wait until you read about this Amazon patient. Apparently Alexa could potentially be capable of “voice-based determination of physical and emotional characteristics of users.” Amazon’s goal is to be able to detect…
The future is here everyone. Walmart apparently has a patent on a shopping cart that measures your heart rate, palm temperature, grip force, and walking speed. One could justify this as a preventive measure to make sure no one passes out in…
The Khabib Nurmagomedov v. Conor McGregor match went about exactly as everyone expected it to, non-spoiler alert: Khabib wins by submission. That, however, was not the story of the fight. After their initial bout, the main event follow: an all-out Royal Rumble….
If you’re interested in receiving an email notification whenever we make an announcement or post a new article/blog, feel free to sign up using the subscription form in the right column. Of course, since we’re using WordPress, the Plugin isn’t flawless and…
July 4th, 2015, the day I checked into my new workplace. Since it was late at night, my sponsor dropped me off at the hotel and told me what time she would meet me the next day to show me around town….
An article on National Public Radio was recently published regarding the relationship between patient satisfaction ratings and the prescription-writing habits of doctors. The article cites a study from JAMA Internal Medicine saying that patients rated themselves the happiest when a doctor gave…
