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Print | July 30, 2015

Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet – New York Times

A series of ultra-high-speed fiber-optic cables will weave a cluster of West Coast university laboratories and supercomputer centers into a network called the Pacific Research Platform as part of a five-year $5 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.

Print | May 19, 2015

Health and data: can digital fitness monitors revolutionise our lives? – The Guardian

From granular microchips to voice analysis, health-tracking technology offers medical benefits but doubt persist about the quality and security of data gathered

Print | May 10, 2015

Larry Smarr is the poster boy for wearable devices and the quantified self – The Sydney Morning Herald

May 10, 2015 Smarr, an astrophysicist and computer scientist, could be the world’s most self-measured man. For nearly 15 years, the professor at the University of California at San Diego has been obsessed with what he describes as the most complicated subject he has ever experimented on: his own body. Link to Article

Print | May 9, 2015

The Revolution Will Be Digitized – Washington Post

Spearheaded by the flood of wearable devices, a movement to quantify consumers’ lifestyles is evolving into big business with immense health and privacy ramifications.