Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms

Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 0.29% Google and national hospital chain HCA Healthcare Inc. HCA 0.50% have struck a deal to develop healthcare algorithms using patient records, the latest foray by a tech giant into the $3 trillion healthcare sector. Nashville, Tenn.,-based HCA, which operates across about 2,000 locations in 21 states, would consolidate and store with Google data from digital… Source link

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Home prices will fall and ’cause some pain’

Bloomberg Old-School Tycoons of Hong Kong Are Losing to China’s Moguls (Bloomberg) — The prediction was vintage Jack Ma, as provocative as it was prescient.“This is the era of the internet,” the Chinese billionaire proclaimed in October 2013, just weeks after his plan to take Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. public in Hong Kong had been scuttled by regulators. “It no longer belongs to Li Ka-shing.”Ma’s dig at the famed Hong Kong tycoon raised plenty of eyebrows at the time, but few… Source link

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Bitcoin breaks above $40,000 as market rallies

‘Bitcoin prices continue to recover from their recent hangover,’ said one expert. Photo: Getty Images Cryptocurrencies are continuing to recover from the weekend sell-off, with bitcoin crossing the $40,000 (£28,258) mark. It still remains far from its record-high of $63,000 though, which it hit earlier this year. Bitcoin (BTC-USD) was up 4.2% to trade at $40,500 on Wednesday morning. Ethereum (ETH-USD), the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, was up roughly 9.4%, trading at $2,896…. Source link

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Bitcoin edges back from $40,000 as volatility lingers

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bitcoin climbed back above $40,000 on Wednesday for the first time this week, before edging off its highs, as recent volatility in the cryptocurrency market showed few signs of dampening down.    Bitcoin jumped as much as 6.5% to $40,904, before easing back to around $38,797 at 11:45 a.m. Eastern time. Smaller coins, which tend to rise and fall with the largest cryptocurrency, also gained, with ether climbing more than 7.5% to above $2,915 earlier in the… Source link

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Luka Doncic legend grows with 2-0 lead over Clippers

The NBA playoffs often birth several familiar scenes. The Clippers being the Clippers. Chris Paul getting hurt. And now, Luka Doncic is entering the consciousness of certainties we’ll expect in postseasons to come, following yet another demolishing of the favored Los Angeles Clippers to take a 2-0 lead headed back to Dallas.  He used the Clippers as the perfect canvas for a sterling performance on the road, giving it to whomever wanted a piece of him and every which way, scoring 39 with seven… Source link

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Google cleared to build multi-billion dollar megacampus in San Jose

San Jose city officials on Tuesday night officially approved a plan for Google to build a massive campus in the heart of California’s third-largest city. For its “Downtown West” project, Google will develop 80 acres of land in downtown San Jose, including 7.3 million square feet of office space for 20,000 workers and thousands of housing units. It’s Google’s first mixed-use campus and will be one of its largest when completed. The San Jose city council unanimously approved the company’s plans… Source link

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San Jose gives final OK to Google’s downtown campus development

Downtown San Jose is headed for a kind of revival that has not been seen in decades. San Jose council members on Tuesday night unanimously — and enthusiastically —  approved Google’s master plan to transform 80 acres of land on the western edge of downtown into a vibrant new urban neighborhood complete with blocks full of new office buildings, apartment complexes, shops and parks. “I want to thank everyone at Google for seeing this possibility,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said during the… Source link

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Saudi Arabia: Google Should Halt “Cloud Region”

(Beirut) – Google should immediately halt its decision to establish a new Cloud region in Saudi Arabia until it can clearly outline steps to mitigate adverse human rights abuses, 39 human rights and digital privacy rights organizations and individuals, including Human Rights Watch, said in a joint statement today. In December 2020, Google announced an agreement with Saudi Aramco to set up a Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia and offer Enterprise Cloud services. The Google… Source link

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Amnesty International calls for Google to halt cloud business in Saudi Arabia

Amnesty International is teaming up with 38 other human rights groups and individuals to call for a halt to Google’s plans to set up an enterprise cloud business in Saudi Arabia because of concerns over the country’s human rights track record. The joint statement — signed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Media Matters for Democracy, among others — calls for Google to end its plans in Saudi Arabia until the company conducts a public human rights assessment and makes it… Source link

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Lakers’ Anthony Davis kicks Jae Crowder in groin

It didn’t take long for Game 2 of the series between the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns to get weird. One minute into the first quarter, Anthony Davis failed to connect on a jump shot. Further review, however, showed his foot, which he had kicked out to draw a foul, had connected somewhere else: Add that to the list of reasons the NBA should crack down on unnatural shooting motions this offseason. Here’s another angle: Watching that, you would probably assume that it was a foul. And yes, it… Source link

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