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Why Cellphone Use is Soaring in the Operating Room

People are often asked to turn off their cellphones in movie theaters, restaurants, classrooms and a number of other settings in which cellphone use can be an unwelcome distraction. But what about in the operating room, the place where you expect your doctors to focus their full attention on you and your surgery? Shockingly, new […]

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WixEd Teaches Users How to Create Their Own Web Design Businesses

A prominent web design company has recently launched a free online education program that instructs users on how to run their own web design business. TechCrunch reports that the “do it yourself” (DIY) web design company Wix launched its “WixEd” program on July 10th. Totally free of charge, the WixEd program is made up of […]

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CVS Teams Up With IBM’s Jeopardy Playing Supercomputer Watson

National pharmacy and retail outlet CVS is trying to pivot this year towards a more healthcare-oriented approach, and now the drug store is teaming up with IBM’s famed supercomputer “Watson” to help chronic disease patients. Consumers might recognize IBM’s supercomputer from its stint on Jeopardy several years ago. Now, Watson will analyze millions of data […]

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Former Lottery Employee Found Guilty of Rigging the System For His Benefit

A former high level security official at a non-profit lottery association was recently convicted of rigging the “Hot Lotto” system so that he could win a $14 million jackpot, and attempting to cash it in without revealing his identity. The Associated Press reports that Eddie Tipton, 52, was found guilty by a Des Moines jury […]

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Google Updating Algorithm That Penalizes Low-Quality Content

Google has confirmed that it has already begun rolling out Panda 4.2, an update to its algorithm that factors website quality into its overall search rankings. “This past weekend we began a Panda update that will roll out over the coming months,” a Google spokesperson said. “As you know, we’re always working to improve Google […]

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New Report Shows Effects of Mobile Technology

A new report by The Internet Society illustrates how the rise of mobile technology is affecting the world around us. The report, which is titled Internet Society Global Internet Report 2015: Mobile Evolution and Development of the Internet, discusses the increased dependency on apps, issues that this dependency can cause, and recommendations for policymakers. The […]

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TurboTax Software Will Drop Cloud-Based Storage for Tax Return Backup Files on July 21

UPDATED 11/18/20 Filing your taxes is an important part of being an adult and making sure you keep copies of your files either on digital record or paper record is a must. With free electronic filing of taxes you may not get an automatic print out of your files. Any tax lawyer will tell you […]

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Google is Searching For a New SEO Manager

Though they already hold 67.6% of U.S. search engine market shares (and the crown for top PPC experts), Google is always looking to expand their empire. A recent posting on the Google Careers portal has revealed that they’re looking for an SEO manager. The listing says: “As a Program Manager for Technical SEO, you will […]

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Federal Changes Could Require Electronic Records for Home Health Agencies

It appears the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services may once again be using payment rules to spur the adoption of electronic health records, this time in the realm of home health. “[E]ffective adoption and use of health information exchange and health IT tools will be essential as these settings seek to improve quality and […]

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Is Google’s Ad Targeting Sexist?

It’s no secret that Google tracks its users’ activity in order to offer better ad targeting (although the algorithms that actually process that data in order to select ads are highly guarded). But new research suggests a problem with those algorithms: that they may be sexist. In order to gather data, a team from Carnegie […]