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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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Steven Cherry That 1-in-31 statistic is more than a little scary. I was surprised by the result, but when you think about it, whole-genome sequencing is relatively cheap. And the other thing that we found is that it has the potential to save hospitals money. And these infections that we can prevent are very, very expensive.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Tiny, cheap, and almost impossible to detect in action, induction coils were in wide use in wiretapping operations of all sorts by the late 1930s, and nowhere more so than in New York. Tiny, cheap, and almost impossible to detect in action, induction coils were in wide use in wiretapping operations of all sorts.