Misty Robotics Eyes 23 Million Developers To Build Skills Marketplace

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Misty II is a fully-loaded robot that stands 14” tall and can see, smell, talk, touch, move and emote right out-of-the-box. Anyone who knows Javascript or C# can bring their code to life on its platform and this openness has made it possible to build a loyal fan base among developers who freely contribute to its skill repositories. 

Ian Bernstein, Misty Robotics founder and head of product, said in a recent statement that he believes the “key to unlocking the future of robots” lies in creating open platforms for the more than 23 millionsoftware developers worldwide who are not roboticists.

In 2015, he made it big with Sphero, the toy company he co-founded with Adam Wilson that made the app-controlled BB-8 droid from Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens.

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This is how pay data can get the wage gap wrong

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When a company stays mum on the topic of pay equity, often, employees fill the void by crowdsourcing and sharing their own pay. This well-intentioned but misguided effort is dangerous because it often highlights issues that are not legitimate while masking the real problems.

Case in point: the New York Times released a piece on pay equity among journalism, advertising, and book publishing industry professionals entitled “On a Dry Spreadsheet, a Stark Difference: a $200,000 Pay Gap.” The article partly focused on a public spreadsheet called “Real Media Salaries” in which those in the industry self-reported pay data and included factors like race, gender and years of experience. And the headline was referring to one instance of a difference in pay between the following: “a white, male freelance creative director in New York with 28 years of experience reported a salary of $300,000. A Latino man with the same job description in New Jersey and 25 years of experience said he made $95,000.”

The intention was worthy, but the conclusions were just plain wrong.

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New smart glasses coming from Qualcomm and Pokemon Go creator Niantic

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There's a race for the next great pair of smart glasses. Apple is reportedly working on a pair. So is Facebook. And Niantic Labs, creator of AR phone games Pokemon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, said Thursday it's collaborating with Qualcomm on a reference design solution that will mix hardware, software and cloud services, using a just-announced ARVR Snapdragon XR2 chip for phone and PC-free headsets.

Unlike previous AR headsets like the Magic Leap and the HoloLens 2, which have been expensive and targeted at enterprise or deep-pocketed entrepreneurs, it sounds like Qualcomm and Niantic's plan is to find ways to make affordable AR smart glasses (and software) that everyday people might actually wear. There's no clear time frame for when this design might emerge, but it seems like it'll run parallel to existing efforts from other companies like Apple over the next few years.

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SubjectWell, Human API Partner to Provide Free Patient Medical Record Retrieval

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– Risk-free clinical trial marketplace, SubjectWell partners with data-sharing platform Human API to provide free record retrieval to clinical trial sites and sponsors. 

– The risk-free clinical trials marketplace will use Human API’s platform to simplify patient-approved health data collection and speed up the randomization process.

SubjectWell, the risk-free clinical trial marketplace has partnered with data-sharing platform Human API to provide free medical record retrieval to clinical trial sites and sponsors. Through this partnership, SubjectWell seeks to increase the speed of the randomization process and further bolster its risk-free offerings for sponsors.

Partnership Benefits

Medical record retrieval remains a pain point today for clinical trial sites, as considerable time and resources are dedicated to manually obtaining medical records before sites can confirm a diagnosis and enroll a patient into a study. With the Human API platform, SubjectWell can now give prospective participants a simple way to share their medical records – no matter where or how it was stored – in just a few minutes. SubjectWell can then send the electronic patient records along with their pre-screened at no additional cost beyond the per-randomized-patient price.

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