Over the last five years, electronic health records (EHRs) have been widely implemented in the United States, and health care systems now have access to vast amounts of data. While they are beginning to apply “big data” techniques to predict individual outcomes like post-operative complications and diabetes risk, big data remains largely a buzzword, not a reality, in the routine delivery of health care.
Mexico's automotive industry has been growing at an impressive 8% in the last 5 years. From 2016 to 2020, this growth is predicted to continue at 9% annually, to almost 5 million units of vehicles in 2020. The growth is driven mainly by export to global markets outside the NAFTA region and the increasing share of premium vehicles – 40% of all new programs will come from this segment.
El consorcio automovilístico alemán Daimler ha puesto en marcha una investigación interna en relación con el proceso de certificación de las emisiones de sus vehículos en Estados Unidos, a petición del Departamento de Justicia del país. Esta medida ha disparado la alarma entre los inversores y la compañía está sufriendo fuertes caídas en bolsa.
Daimler informó en un comunicado de que está cooperando con las autoridades estadounidenses en relación con esta solicitud y resaltó que, por ello, investigará las indicaciones sobre posibles irregularidades y afirmó que tomará las acciones necesarias.
Lexmark International Inc. ha acordado su venta a varios compradores, incluidas la china Apex Technology Co. y PAG Asia Capital, en una operación con un valor de empresa de unos US$3.600 millones o US$40,50 por acción.
El consorcio también incluye a Legend Capital, la división de capital riesgo de Legend Holdings, con sede en China.
NASA is looking at bioengineered microbes that could recycle and print new electronics on Mars, researchers in China built solar panels that work in the rain, and an engineer in Belgium made a smart scalpel that can sniff out cancer during brain surgery. Oh, yes, and someone in France finally invented a flying hoverboard. We curated this week’s haul from the Twitter feed of Carlos Haertel, who runs the GE’s Global Research Center in Munich, Germany.
Google may have the most self-driving cars on the road and Ford might be testing its driverless vehicles in the most extreme conditions, but Jia Yueting certainly has the most autonomous auto brands under his belt.
La sede del gigante automovilístico francés PSA, fabricante de las marcas de coches Peugeot y Citroën, ha sido registrada hoy por funcionarios antifraude dentro de la investigación en marcha sobre el fraude de las emisiones en el sector del automóvil, según ha anunciado la propia compañía en un comunicado.
“Como parte de las investigaciones en marcha sobre contaminantes en el sector del automóvil, el Grupo PSA ha sido hoy objetivo de una operación de entrada y registro de la Dirección General de Política de Competencia, Consumo y Control del Fraude”, dice el comunicado.
For only the second time in its history, the semiconductor market is expected to decline, as demand for PCs and mobile devices falls in 2016.
Gartner reported that global semiconductor sales are expected to fall slightly, by 0.6 percent, to an estimated $333 billion this year. This follows a decline of 2.3 percent in 2015, the firm said.
Psychologists and engineers at Binghamton University in New York have hit a milestone in the quest to use the unassailable inner workings of your brain as a form of biometric identification. They came up with an electroencephalograph system that proved 100 percent accurate at identifying individuals by the way their brains responded to a series of images.
