Researchers at Microsoft have found that internet searches may prove effective in detecting disease. Analyzing logs of Bing search data, they were able to correctly identify users who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Predicting a fast-acting, deadly disease like pancreatic cancer through user activity on a search engine like Bing could one day save a lot of lives. Only question left is, who will save Bing?
For its ninth annual Global Giving Week, NRG dispatched employees to charities and non-profits in their own communities. More than 1,200 employees of the integrated power co. worked over 5,000 hours and donated nearly $100k to organizations ranging from Connecticut Humane Society to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.
In case you missed it, click below for the final four minutes of Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight.” John Oliver explains how he and his team at HBO purchased $14.9 million of medical debt — and then promptly forgave that debt, saving some 9,000 people from debt-seeking predators.
Debt buying is an unregulated, unparalleled sleazefest of an industry, as this primer from The New York Times Magazine revealed last year. The slightly weird p.s. is that NYT praised Oliver’s move this week but was clearly ticked off you’d rather watch his show than read their paper.
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