How One Startup Built Better Health Insurance With the Magic of Data
How One Startup Built Better Health Insurance With the Magic of Data
Oscar works with the same sloppy, unstandardized data every other insurance company has. It’s what they did with it that was totally different.
An Electric Shock Could Keep Patients From Bleeding Out
An Electric Shock Could Keep Patients From Bleeding Out
Researchers in the field of bioelectronic medicine are developing a neural tourniquet to supercharge the body's ability to stop bleeding with just a few zaps.
Anti-Vaxxers Brought Their War to Minnesota—Then Came Measles
How Anti-Vaxxers Brought on a Minnesota Measles Outbreak
Misinformation targeted at Somali-American communities in Minneapolis is fueling the state's biggest outbreak in three decades.
Want a True Bionic Limb? Good Luck Without Machine Learning
Want a True Bionic Limb? Good Luck Without Machine Learning
Conscious thought is holding back the cyborg revolution. Which is why the next generation of prosthetics will use computer vision and neural nets instead.
Hackers Aren’t the Only Ones Defending Your Right to Federal Data
Hackers Aren’t the Only Ones Defending Your Right to Federal Data
On Thursday, two senators introduced a bill that would make it much, much harder for any administration to disappear public data.