If Nintendo wants to avoid a Beanie Baby-style bubble burst, it needs to fix how it sells Amiibo figurines, immediately.
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Nick DeVito is a third-year resident at Tufts Medical Center working toward a career in hematology and oncology. During rotations, if he’s feeling bored, he likes to whip out his smartphone and browse through Figure 1, a mobile app he compares to Instagram for doctors. He will offer suggestions on difficult diagnoses and favorite particularly beautiful photos of growths, gashes, and gangrene. By and large the service is used by medical professionals, but every once and a while, a picture is worth sharing with everyone. "My dad works in hardware sales, so I had to show him this one picture of a patient with a two-by-four through his chest," says DeVito. "There are images on here that anyone can connect to."
I downloaded Figure 1 a few...
Universal Pictures' highly anticipated sequel Furious 7 sets opening weekend records for April on its way to becoming the year's first billion-dollar movie.
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Privacy is one of the single most important issues of our time.
Apple is making it a top-tier, customer-facing feature and hoping it becomes a major competitive advantage. Because 'privacy' can seem ephemeral, and doesn't have the obvious value of money, so many of us trade it away with little or no thought. Humor and satire can often covey truth in a way no other medium can. Such is the case with John Oliver and this overview of the U.S. Patriot Act and interview with Edward Snowden. From YouTube:
There are very few government checks on what America's sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics.
