Alphabet Inc’s Google is teaming up with a health-care company on a secret project to collect personal health-related information of millions of Americans across 21 states, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Google launched “Project Nightingale” last year with St. Louis-based Ascension, according to the report, citing people familiar with the matter and internal documents.
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The news follows an earlier announcement from Google that it would buy Fitbit Inc for $2.1 billion, aiming to enter wearables segment and invest in digital health.
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Apollonia Poilâne is letting us in on the secret - The Boston Globe
The tiny dining area of Comptoir Poilâne on Paris's Left Bank is minimalist in décor and, like many Parisian cafés, a tight fit. I'm talking to owner Apollonia Poilâne. Poised and polished with her long hair pulled back and wearing a simple dark T-shirt, she's talking about her philosophy of letting the bread teach the baker. Across from us, a woman is telling her companions that she wanted to bring them to the "most famous bakery in the world" and praises Poilâne's "extraordinary bread."
The Secret Benefits of Retelling Family Stories - WSJ
Telling family stories about crazy Uncle Joe or other eccentric relatives is a favorite pastime when families gather for the holidays. But will squirming children or Instagram-obsessed teens bother to listen?
Actually, kids absorb more information from family stories than most adults think. And that knowledge bestows surprising psychological benefits, research shows.
Hannah Rose Blakeley, 26 years old, says listening to stories about her late uncle led her to appreciate her family's resourcefulness in the face of adversity. A Vietnam veteran who once worked as a roughneck in rattlesnake-infested oil fields, her uncle donned thick leather work boots, wrapped them in burlap, tromped through the grass and captured any rattlers that thrust their fangs into his protective gear. Then he sold them to laboratories, where their venom was harvested for medicine.
Instagram influencer used secret account to hit back at her critics | Media | The Guardian
But she ended up using her secret account to attack rival "mumfluencers", including Bethie Hungerford, whom she labelled as desperate for fame. She also called the presenter and writer Candice Brathwaite "aggressive" and accused her of bringing all arguments back to race.
On his Father of Daughters Instagram page, her husband, Simon, said: "I can't condone or fully understand why Clemmie did what she did. Make no mistake about it – she made some bad choices … I've seen first-hand what three years of being attacked online can do to a person and the dark places it can drive you to."
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The secret is out, Kartchner Caverns is Absolutely Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz. — For hundreds of thousand of years the caves in the limestone foothills of the Whetstone Mountains remained undiscovered.
That all changed in November of 1974. Randy Tufts and his University of Arizona roommate Gary Tenen explored a sink hole not far from Benson, Ariz.
"At the end of that crawlway was what we called the blow hole," Gary Tenen recalled. "Air was just blowing out of that hole."
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"I was smaller than he was," said Tenen. "So I went through first. Hammered from the other side, and got in."
Citing security, Nevada keeps dams' emergency plans secret | NevadaAppeal.com
This photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019 and provided by the Nevada Division of State Parks, shows Cave Lake, a reservoir that was created by the construction of the Cave Creek Dam in 1932, at Cave Lake State Park about 15 miles southeast of Ely, Nev. A $3.4 rehabilitation project is planned at the dam, which is one of 14 in Nevada that is rated to be a high hazard and in poor or unsatisfactory condition.
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RENO — Nevada keeps emergency response plans for potential dam failures secret for the same reason the U.S. government refuses the state's demands for information about weapons-grade plutonium shipped to the Las Vegas area: It's confidential for security purposes, even for dams at golf course ponds.
Details of Bay Center replacement proposal will remain secret while county seeks competing offers
As Escambia County considers a new proposal from Pensacola Arena Development Partners , the details of that plan will not be made public until after the county seeks bids of similar proposals.
The Escambia County Commission voted unanimously Thursday night to keep details of the Pensacola Arena Development Partner's proposal confidential until the County Commission votes whether to agree to the proposal or a competing proposal.
The proposal from PADP to build an $80 million, 6,500-seat arena and an 80,000-square-foot field house to replace the aging Pensacola Bay Center is technically an unsolicited proposal for the county.
The Secrets of Amazon review – Alexa, why are you so disturbing?
Y ou don't have to have an Alexa device in your kitchen to worry that Amazon might be monitoring you. You don't have to work for the company, either. You don't even have to shop with it, although, obviously, all these things help.
The presenter of Dispatches: The Secrets of Amazon (Channel 4), Sophie Morgan, investigated some of the more immediately troubling aspects of our relationship with what is now the most valuable public company in the world, a retail behemoth that accounts for a third of all online purchases in Britain.
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