Healthcare investors can sleep easy tonight with one of 2015’s major unanswered questions now off the table.
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Daily Archives: July 14, 2015
The Telescope of the 2030s
The Telescope of the 2030s
In what they termed “a call to arms,” an organization of American university astronomers said last week that NASA should begin planning now to launch a sort of supersize version of the Hubble Space Telescope in the 2030s to look for life beyond Earth.
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Why Workday Started A Fund To Invest In Machine-Learning Startups
Enterprise software leader Workday explains why it’s created its own dedicated venture fund to focus on machine-learning startups.
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An Inside Look At The Theranos Direct-To-Consumer Experience
Tiny Theranos vials with my blood Late last year I thought I’d try the Theranos lab test at a local Walgreens, but I was a little too early for their direct-to-consumer (DTC) process. Theranos could have taken my order for a select number of tests (under Arizona law at that time), but
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The 20 Companies With The Most STEM Job Openings Right Now
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ZTE Axon gets official for the US with top specs, $449.98 price tag
The wait is over, ZTE has taken the wraps off its new high-end device. It's called Axon, and it was apparently designed in the US, with the US market in mind.
ZTE will sell the Axon unlocked for $449.98 (without tax). What you get for that amount of cash is quite a bit of smartphone, so to speak.
The Axon has a 5.5-inch QHD LCD touchscreen, a dual rear camera (13 MP + 2 MP) with dual-LED flash and 4K video capture, an 8 MP selfie camera, a whopping 4GB of RAM, as well as 32GB of of non-expandable storage.
Running the show is the well known Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC, boasting a 2 GHz octa-core CPU in ARM's big.LITTLE configuration. The Axon has a 3,000 mAh non-removable battery (with quick charge support) and it runs Android 5.1 Lollipop, an almost stock version.
It has a metallic body, Hi-Fi audio playback of 32-bit 192KHz audio files, and (obviously) 4G LTE support.
It will be available in Ion Gold, Chromium Silver, and Phthalo Blue. You can already pre-order it from ZTE and get a free TPU case and a pair of JBL earbuds (which are a $49.99 value). Pre-orders should also be available at Amazon, Newegg, and eBay shortly. There's no information about a shipping date…
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Senator Sessions Leading Or Misleading On Immigration?
Perhaps concerned that Donald Trump was getting all the attention on immigration, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) last week repeated an assertion on high-skilled jobs that two Wall Street Journal editorials explained was a distortion of the actual job market.
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The ‘Just-In-Time’ Education Revolution
The trope of overlooking the hero based on appearances goes back as long as stories have been told. In the Bible, King David, the youngest and least impressive of his 7 brothers, was relegated to the fields to look after goats and sheep. Samuel thought David’s brother was the impressive one and should be king. But God said: “Don’t judge by his appearance or height. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
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Nine Facts About Pluto [Infographic]
In honor of New Horizons’ flyby, here are nine facts about Pluto.
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Top-Earning Dead Musicians 2014
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