Author: timbatchelder
Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Valley With Them
The diaspora of tech talent is apparent in towns around the Rockies, where wealth and business activity are rising, along with property prices and wage competition.
Source: Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Valley With Them – WSJ
Bloomberg Covid Resilience Rating: Testing and Tracing is Key to Business
Bloomberg measured vaccine access, lockdowns disruption and mortality rates
Source: Coronavirus Pandemic: Ranking The Best, Worst Places to Be
Sleep Accuracy: Garmin loses, Fitbit wins in scientific study
the5krunner: Sleep Accuracy: Garmin loses, Fitbit wins in scientific study. https://the5krunner.com/2020/10/31/sleep-accuracy-garmin-loses-fitbit-wins-in-scientific-study/
When Start-Ups Go Into the Garage (or Sometimes the Living Room)
Cities and Startups Are Poised for a ‘Great Reboot’
The pandemic’s impact on small business has been deep, but Inc.’s Arnobio Morelix predicts a startup renaissance is around the corner.
Source: Cities and Startups Are Poised for a ‘Great Reboot’ | Inc.com
How Tasso’s Simple At-Home Blood Tests Could Reimagine Telemedicine
Tasso’s simple plastic device is enabling everything from drug trials to disease monitoring, at the push of a button.
Source: How Tasso’s Simple At-Home Blood Tests Could Reimagine Telemedicine | Inc.com
Distributed, localized, precision fermentation production hubs and upcoming technological disruption
In the next 10 years, key technologies will converge to completely disrupt the five foundational sectors—information, energy, food, transportation, and materials—that underpin our global economy. We need to make sure the disruption benefits everyone.
Source: We are approaching the most consequential technological disruption in
The Social Dilemma: Design Ethics for Big Tech
COVID-19 Might Just Be The First Big Pandemic Of This Century due to Deforestation, Environmental Degradation
In an August report in the journal Cell, Fauci and medical historian David Morens, his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) colleague, foresee an accelerating rate of pandemics in the years ahead driven largely by deforestation, urban crowding, and wet markets for wild game, which will make increasing environmental degradation worldwide in this century, “the key determinant of disease emergence.”
“A deadly barrage” of pandemics is coming, a new report warns.
Source: COVID-19 Might Just Be The First Big Pandemic Of This Century
Why Haven’t Clear Face Masks Caught On Yet?
Even though protective masks have become more common, transparent versions that make lip-reading possible aren’t in widespread use in hospitals, schools, or big-box stores.
Biodiversity loss could be making us sick – here’s why
By 2050, 70% of the world’s population is expected to live in towns and cities.
Source: Biodiversity loss could be making us sick – here’s why
