COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic in our deeply interconnected world, and sadly it won’t be the worst. Two profoundly different possible futures are available to us: one in which we stick our heads in the sand as we have …
Read more »Businesses around the world are facing catastrophic losses as the novel coronavirus forces them to scale back operations or shut down entirely, and most don’t have insurance cover for pandemics. Companies are now racing to buy protection against the next outbreak, insurance experts say. Bankruptcies …
Read more »It was an AI that first saw it coming, or so the story goes. On December 30, an artificial-intelligence company called BlueDot, which uses machine learning to monitor outbreaks of infectious diseases around the world, alerted clients—including various governments, hospitals, and businesses—to …
Read more »The best way to predict the future is to invent it. –Alan Kay I love studying failures. Because in all that, pain is where the learning happens. Many moons ago, I read a book called Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure that tells the …
Read more »Companies buy insurance that usually pays out when they have to halt operations. But it’s usually because of physical damage, not outbreaks. Two years ago Munich Re, the reinsurance giant, tried to start underwriting a new kind of insurance …
Read more »Epidemics can spread globally faster now than before — but our science has also advanced There have been epidemics in decades past, and there will be more in future years. But what an epidemic looks like will continue shifting as …
Read more »Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and Perthera Study in Lancet Oncology Underscores the Urgent Need for Every Pancreatic Cancer Patient to Get Tested Through a Molecular Profiling Platform MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. and HOLLISTON, Mass., March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) and Perthera, Inc., …
Read more »The epidemic-monitoring company Metabiota determined that Thailand, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan had the highest risk of seeing the virus show up more than a week before cases in those countries were actually reported, partially by looking to flight data. Metabiota uses natural-language processing to evaluate online reports about a potential disease, and it’s also working on developing the same technology for social media data.
Read more »Metabiota, an AI-driven company, has successfully made correct predictions regarding the spread of the coronavirus to areas such as Hong Kong about one week before the authorities detected new cases in the area.
Read more »NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2019 — Velocidi, the customer data platform for direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands, was awarded the title of “Best Customer Data Platform” at the Digiday Awards Gala on November 14, 2019. The Digiday Technology Awards is an annual …
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