Hospitals can now track which workers have washed their hands
The AgilTrac Real-Time Location System will allow hospitals to make sure doctors, nurses, and other workers are washing their hands enough.
The AgilTrac Real-Time Location System will allow hospitals to make sure doctors, nurses, and other workers are washing their hands enough.
Editor's Pick This new partnership between three Silicon Valley powerhouses seeks to capitalize on what could end up being Google's next big ecosystem after Chrome and Android.
“This innovative idea for shaking up the financial services sector while helping startups in a practical way has caught the eye of many new businesses already," said Branson.
Artist Thierry Cohen reimagines the world without lights.
Recruiting is hard. Here's LinkedIn's paid product aimed at making it easier (and vastly more profitable for the publicly traded professional networking company).
We've spent the past few days running around with the HTC First, the first phone with Facebook Home running out of the box . Here's our review.
Here’s our first look inside (and outside) San Francisco’s 44-year-old science museum, The Exploratorium.
The museum recently got some major upgrades, with a change of location and a new focus on programming for adults. It’s three times bigger, features indoor …
The new facility on the city's famed Embarcadero at Piers 15 and 17 features 330,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor exhibits -- 600 total exhibits, around a quarter of which are new -- as well as 1.5 acres of free space, two restaurants, and a promenade.
"All the kids are from at-risk homes. These kids have never coded before, and I’ve talked to them in person, and I’m 99 percent confident we will be able to place them in jobs."
So, it's date night and you don't know what to do with your main squeeze. Why not take him or her or them to the moon via a web browser?
We all know open-source software is a good thing and good people give back to their communities. This site just makes it really easy to start following through on those values.
Guest Post When companies do find, recruit and hire the talent, most aren’t taking the right steps to empower their developer talent to learn, grow, and thrive. Developers are people too, you know.
Guest Post Developers aren’t security experts, and most security experts aren’t developers. There needs to be a better mutual understanding -- and earlier cooperation -- between the two parties to better eradicate security issues.
Guest Post Once development is ready to release an application, how do we support the next stages of the release process with equally agile operations?
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For nearly two decades, developers and CIOs have taken for granted the “simplicity” that a Windows-dominated world provided to software development. With one operating system capable of reaching the vast majority of users, there was no debate about which platform …
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Facebook Home isn’t a mobile operating system. But normal users who buy or download the Home experience won’t know or care. They’ll suddenly have Facebook phones that look, feel, and behave totally different from Android phones.
And the answer to …
Guest Post This is a document of how we screwed up. And then how we fixed our screw-ups. Please learn from us.
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Printzel is a just-launched iPad app that lets you create really good-looking books -- hardcover or soft -- from your photos.