With Google's new Correlate system, companies have a powerful (and, free!) new data-mining tool on their hands. Let us imagine the ways in which we'll use it. READ»
By tricking out tiny portable Wi-Fi devices and giving them to everyone in a school, Stanford researchers have gathered hard data on how quickly a flu pandemic could spread. READ»
The AutoComplete function on Google Search? Google Flu Trends? The Dead Sea Scrolls project? All developed with the help of Google's Israel R&D unit. It's head Yossi Matias sits down with Fast Company for a chat.READ»
Google's philanthropic Flu Trends site has been able to track swine flu about as well as health care surveillance, according to Bloomberg. What else can trending searches tell us about the state of health in the United ...READ»
There isn't enough H1N1 vaccine to go around, which is why President Barack Obama declared the outbreak a national emergency over the weekend. Why can't we produce H1N1 vaccines fast enough? Because of chicken eggs.READ»
Japanese officials are about to test a cellphone-based tracking system in an attempt to combat future pandemics. It's a bit like trying to solve the problem with good design, just with much less civil liberty.READ»
When sick people work:
Do you feel flu-ish? Please don’t be an inconsiderate pig. Stay home.
That, dear listener, is easier said than done. You are caught between a rock and a hard place. Doctors want you to stay home, ...READ»
As the world watches the rising death toll from the Mexican outbreak of swine influenza, and wonders what's going to happen next, it looks like new media darling Twitter has caught a bad case of H1N1 itself. The social networking ...READ»
Google.org takes on the spread of flu, IBM takes on broadband over power lines, and the Department of Justice takes on tech companies LG, Sharp, and Chunghwa for price-fixing LCD panels.READ»
