Category: General
Facebook buys Ozlo to boost its conversational AI efforts
Facebook has gone ahead and purchased Charles Jolley’s conversational AI startup Ozlo. Jolley, formerly Head of Platform for Android at Facebook, will not be returning to the company. The Ozlo team is expected to join Facebook to work on natural language processing challenges. Ozlo launched with a consumer-facing app back in October 2016. Jolley told […]
More Than A Third Of US Adults Prescribed Opioids In 2015
The United States needs to curb excessive opioid prescribing and improve access to pain management techniques, suggests a new government study. Researchers found that more than one third of U.S. adults were prescribed the medications in 2015 and many also misused the drugs. [AdSense-A] "A very large proportion and large number of adults use these […]
BREAKING: Millions Set To Keep Healthcare After All As Vote To Repeal ACA Fails
Forget politics. Independent analyses of both the House version and the Senate version of the GOP's replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) better known as Obamacare would have been a disaster for America. Anything that takes away healthcare from 22 million Americans, many of which are the poorest, sickest, oldest, and youngest members of […]
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
A shadowy operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign heavily influenced the result of the EU referendum. Is our electoral process still fit for purpose? The connectivity that is the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims. The […]
Before Amazon, We Had Bookmobiles: 15+ Rare Photos Of Libraries-On-Wheels
Long before Amazon, Audible, and other digital book distributors, bookmobiles were bringing literature to peoples’ doorsteps. Their mission was to provide the written word to remote villages and city suburbs that had no libraries. We invite you to remember these almost forgotten four-wheelers of the past. The first bookmobile is believed to have appeared in […]