Fortuna has now had two of its three free matches, and Mr. Jobst told last week: “Our average attendance has gone from 27,000 to 33,000. Our merchandise sales are up by 50 percent. Our sponsorship revenue is up 50 percent. We have reached a record number of club members.” , Mr. Jobst added: “We think it is completely new. We were trying to think about how we could do the soccer business completely different from before.” “We are proud to support this ambitious and pioneering project, which goes beyond the simple framework of sport in terms of the values it conveys. We want to bring people toge ..read more

And we are already deeply underway with efforts across each of the three pillars. leveraging digital innovation in the fight against cancer. of public and private innovators. We are focused on fostering innovation and collaboration to accelerate the pace of digital tools to help patients across their entire cancer journey. We unite experts across industries and the government, leveraging the success of the Department for Health and Human Services’ ; a public-private partnership approach that has driven breakthroughs in kidney care, Lyme disease and COVID-19. In collaboration with the Office of ..read more

 this way, “History has shown that general purpose technologies often fail to deliver their promised benefits for many years (‘the productivity paradox of information technology’). Health care has several attributes that make the successful deployment of new technologies even more difficult than in other industries; these have challenged prior efforts to implement AI and electronic health records.” And yet, they are optimistic this time around. “The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age ..read more

The company will work with Hyundai (which, ICYMI, . Gen X and Millennials might think instead of the more malevolent (which, of course, are actually cyborgs). But Gen Z is likely to think of the running, jumping, back-flipping Atlas from Boston Dynamics, whose a new, all-electric Atlas: “Our new electric Atlas platform is here. Supported by decades of visionary robotics innovation and years of practical experience, Boston Dynamics is tackling the next commercial frontier.” Moreover, the company brags: “The electric version of Atlas will be stronger, with a broader range of motion than any of o ..read more

Whether you are aware of it or not, you have been a target of FRT. The US has the largest number of closed circuit cameras at , in the world. On average, every American is caught on a closed circuit camera at Wuhan University. If that all sounds familiar, it is because the very same DARPA, a few years earlier, had quietly funded controversial , but experts say that’s nothing compared to where our “surveillance” society will be in a few years. viral re-engineering research by U.S. trained Chinese researchers at the very same university. emergence of large language models and sophisticated neura ..read more

Filling in knowledge gaps regarding the connections between pregnancy and long-term cardiovascular health is important to improving outcomes. of primary care physicians published in 2019 revealed that only 22% felt extremely well prepared to evaluate cardiovascular disease risks in female patients. of American women showed that just 44% recognized heart disease as the number one cause of death in women. Ten years earlier, in 2009, the same survey found that 65% of American women recognized heart disease as the leading cause of female death, revealing an alarming decline in awareness.  ..read more

Side note: I dictated this whole thing on my phone while watching my kids water polo game, which has a fair amount of background noise. And I think you’ll be modestly amused about was. But then I put that entire mess of a text  into ChatGPT and told it to fix the mistakes. it did an incredible job and ..read more

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The final example is still going on. charging people a fee to use health care encourages appropriate use of care. Last month Jeff Goldsmith had an excellent article on THCB explaining why not , it has $5 BILLION in its hedge fund, and its CEO (I think) made $8m. It hasn’t filed a 990 for years as far as I can tell. Which is probably illegal. The only one on Propublica is from a teeny subsidiary with $5m in revenue ..read more

The Biden Administration is not just sitting idly. , more than any other company, and it now has enough production capacity in China to manufacture four million cars a year…A deluge of electric vehicles is coming. it is stopping work on EVs for now. Tesla, on the other hand, ,” he had my attention. And when on the same day I that Apple was cancelling its decade-long effort to build an EV, I was definitely paying attention. a 38% increase in deliveries for 2023, but more recently by a decline in sales in China. It shouldn’t be surprising. loses money on every EV it makes ..read more