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IBM has sold Watson Health. It was a long time coming.

"It's difficult not to see the sale as a failure of IBM's big bet on Watson to usher health care into the AI age." IBM invested over $4B in Watson Health but has sold it for $1B.
Source: protocol.com

Drones fly to protect rare New Zealand dolphins

New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday (February 26) that her government was backing a new project that uses drone technology to understand and protect the endangered Maui dolphins in the country. Gloria Tso reports. Reuters Video.
Source: reut.rs

IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health

IBM is studying alternatives for the unit that could include a sale to a private-equity firm or industry player, or a merger with a blank-check company, as the technology giant moves to streamline and become more competitive in cloud computing.
Source: wsj.com

Lift Weight, Not Too Much, Most of the Days. “Greasing the groove, as Tsatsouline explains it, means not working your

Lift Weight, Not Too Much, Most of the Days. “Greasing the groove, as Tsatsouline explains it, means not working your muscles to the point of failure. A common idea in weightlifting is that you should lift until you can’t do another rep, purposely damaging muscle tissues so they grow back bigger....
Source: theatlantic.com

Tom Watson 'reversed' type-2 diabetes: Labour's deputy leader says he lost seven stone by cutting out sugar, fatty foods

Tom Watson 'reversed' type-2 diabetes: Labour's deputy leader says he lost seven stone by cutting out sugar, fatty foods and beer.
Source: bbc.com

Team-based learning (TBL) in the medical curriculum: better than PBL?: Internationally, medical schools have long used a

Team-based learning (TBL) in the medical curriculum: better than PBL?: Internationally, medical schools have long used a variety of approaches to develop hybrid Problem based learning (PBL) curricula. However, Team-based learning (TBL), has gained recent popularity in medical education. TBL maintains...
Source: biomedcentral.com

IBM’s Watson versus cancer: Hype meets reality: Five years ago, IBM announced that its supercomputer Watson would revolutionize

IBM’s Watson versus cancer: Hype meets reality: Five years ago, IBM announced that its supercomputer Watson would revolutionize cancer treatment by using its artificial intelligence to digest and distill the thousands of oncology studies publish…
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close - Slashdot: "IBM began selling

IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close - Slashdot: "IBM began selling Watson to recommend the best cancer treatments to doctors around the world three years ago. But is it really doing its job? Not so much. An investigation by Stat found that the supercomputer...
Source: slashdot.org