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A Bright Idea: Let There Be Light. How Much Is Up to You and Your Data.

Millions of American families have already embraced connected devices like smart meters to control their electricity bills. Now San Diego will soon become the first U.S. city to link its street lights to the Industrial Internet via an “intelligent” lighting system called LightGrid. The new system, which was developed by GE Lighting, will replace 3,000 city lamps with LED lights equipped with GPS beacons and wireless controls technology to measure and manage energy usage.

Google & LEGO team up to build a virtual brick-building playground.

You’re never too old to play with LEGO.

That’s according to the Google Chrome team, which is teaming up with LEGO to bring those beloved colorful bricks to the web via a new Build with Chrome application. You can access the site through a computer, tablet, or smartphone.

How a New Science of Cities Is Emerging from Mobile Phone Data Analysis.

Mobile phones have generated enormous insight into the human condition thanks largely to the study of the data they produce. Mobile phone companies record the time of each call, the caller and receiver ids, as well as the locations of the cell towers involved, among other things.

Hacking the Immune System to Prevent Damage after a Heart Attack.

Using tiny biodegradable particles to disrupt the body’s normal immune response after a heart attack could help save patients from tissue damage and certain long-term health problems that often follow. Researchers have shown that injecting such particles into mice within 24 hours of a heart attack not only significantly reduces tissue damage, but also results in those mice having stronger cardiac function 30 days later. The inventors of the new technology now plan to pursue human trials.

VCs bet $100M that Health Catalyst can take on Oracle & IBM

Health Catalyst thinks that every hospital will need a data warehouse to organize and visualize its data.

The bet may already paying off. The Salt Lake City-based company closed $41 million in funding today, which closely follows a $33 million round in early January. This brings its total funding amount to just shy of $100 million.

Health Catalyst, which was formerly known as Healthcare Quality Catalyst, has provided medical data warehousing for hospitals and health systems since 2008. More than a dozen large hospitals have already bought the software, and Indiana University Health, Kaiser Permamente (through its venture arm) and Partners HealthCare invested in the company.

Care.com raising $75M-$86M as it goes public, breaking Boston’s tech IPO dry spell

Finding someone to take care of your loved ones is an extremely stressful and anxiety-laden process. Care.com has built a successful business on making this process easier.

Today the company set the range for its upcoming initial public offering at $14 to $16 a share. It plans to sell 5.35 million shares.

The online marketplace connects care providers with people who need care. The company expressed its intent to go public in December 2013, and said it aims to raise $80 million.

HomeHero connects you with caregivers for the aging adults in your life.

Never before in human history have there been so many older people. The aging population is exploding, and many of these seniors require care.

HomeHero launched its site today, which connects seniors with caregivers.

Resumen operativo del Programa Marco por el Empleo y la Reactivación Económica

El fichero anexo permite descargar el resumen operativo del Programa Marco por el Empleo y la Reactivación Económica presentado ayer por el Gobierno Vasco. El programa contempla dos grandes ejes de actuación en el horizonte 2014-2016: la recuperación del crecimiento y el empleo, a través del Plan de Empleo que hoy mismo ha sido aprobado por el Consejo de Gobierno, y la reactivación de la economía, a través de la llamada Estrategia 4i (Inversión, Innovación, Internacionalización e Industrialización).

“Big Data Road Map.” The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. 2013.

Big data is a common theme underpinning many of the proposed solutions to the challenges facing the NHS, the life sciences research community and the pharmaceutical industry. Big data technologies make it easier to work with large datasets, link different datasets, detect patterns in real time, predict outcomes, undertake dynamic risk scoring and test hypotheses.

Samsung’s Google Glass competitor, ‘Galaxy Glass,’ could debut in September.

Samsung’s own take on Google Glass could be coming sooner than you think.

The Korean electronics giant is reportedly gearing up to unveil its smart glass device, tentatively dubbed ‘Galaxy Glass,’ as soon as September’s IFA tradeshow in Berlin, an unnamed Samsung executive tells the Korea Times.