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Legalistic battles over the network contracts between health insurers and medical care providers can leave patients in limbo. Renata Hamuda/iStockphoto/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Renata Hamuda/iStockphoto/Getty Images Amy Frank said it took 17 hours on the phone over nearly three weeks, bouncing between her insurer and her local hospital system, to make sure her plan would cover her husband’s post-surgery care. Many of her calls never got past the hold music. When they did, the hospital told her to call her insurer. The insurer told her to have the hospital fax a form to a special number. The hospital…
I’m a 32-year-old freelance developer based in Antwerp, Belgium, with a degree in Multimedia Technology and over a decade of experience crafting digital experiences. Early in my career, I took a bold step and moved to New York City to join the creative agency Your Majesty as a front-end developer — a launchpad that allowed me to work on high-profile projects for global brands like BMW and Spotify. After a year in the U.S., I returned home to be closer to family and friends and continued refining my skills with renowned agencies such as Build in Amsterdam, Hello Monday, Watson…
A scene from a computer animation of a massive collapsing star. NASA / SkyWorks Digital Twelve years after they were first discovered, astronomers are coming to grips with fast X-ray transients (FXTs) — energetic explosions in the distant universe lasting from minutes to hours. At least some of them result from the explosive deaths of massive stars, as evidenced by follow-up observations of the most far-away FXT found to date. In 2013, Peter Jonker (Radboud University, The Netherlands) found a short-lived X-ray burst in 13-year-old archival data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Over the next years, he and others found…
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The head of a Malagasy king killed by French troops during a colonial-era war has been formally returned to Madagascar.The handover of King Toera’s skull – and those of two other members of his court – took place at a ceremony at the culture ministry in Paris.The skulls had been brought to France at the end of the 19th Century and stored at the Museum of Natural History in the French capital.It is the first use of a new law meant to expedite the return of human remains from collections in France.”These skulls entered the national collections in circumstances that…
..aaaand, we’re back at it again — a misbehaving bitcoin price. Sunday evening bitcoin flash-crash dipped a red candle the size of Jupiter; and more eerily, it kept dropping down on Monday morning, touching below $111,000. Now, around here in the land of bitcoin price therapy, we say that nobody knows why prices move. But sometimes, we do… though not as well as we would like. Today, I discuss two things: the last 24 hours’ worth of shenanigans and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s remarks late last week. An Unruly Bitcoin Price Late Sunday (European time) was pretty disgusting: It’s hard…
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“GPS is good in places, but we go to places like Monaco, Baku, Singapore, where all that infrastructure and buildings really make GPS drift,” says Dean Locke, director of broadcast media and digital for Formula 1.F1 cars are also much lighter than their Nascar counterparts, necessitating lower-weight sensors. Its broadcast teams struggled to put together full laps of ghost car or related overlay features as a result.To get around these limitations, F1 built several internal prediction models based on past seasons’ GPS data and lidar scans of each track. It then integrated those models into an in-house application that overlayed…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla today announced a share buyback program of up to $250 million of its outstanding common stock. The company also revealed that it now holds more than 102,000 ETH on its balance sheet. ETHZilla Increases Ethereum Holdings According to today’s announcement, ETHZilla currently holds a total of 102,237 ETH at an average acquisition price of $3,948. Executive Chairman McAndrew Rudisill commented: At ETHZilla, we continue to deploy capital to accelerate our Ethereum treasury strategy with discipline and record speed, As we continue to scale…
Dear Ethereum community (and wonderful Etherheads!), Today, January 31, 2018, is my last day as Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation. I’m pleased to have been able to guide the Foundation as ED with my fellow directors, team leads, and outstanding group of team members, each of whom has contributed to our current position of strength. Taking the Foundation from what was an early stage startup to one of stability, with the infrastructure and resources to support the changes, improvements and challenges to come was no small feat in blockchain and cryptoland! We have gone through a lot together to…