Microsoft is acquiring Activision, the troubled publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. The deal will value Activision at $68.7 billion, far in excess of the $26 billion Microsoft paid to acquire LinkedIn in 2016. …

Alot of people talk about web 3.0, but don’t talk about how to build smart contracts or integrate block chain solutions. Why? Because they don’t know how, and enjoy buzz words. The term used to describe this evolution is web3, meaning the third “version” of the web. First proposed by…

Non-fungible tokens track ownership of a unique thing. The thing owned can be a digital item, such as an in-game item or digital collectible; or the thing can be a physical item whose ownership is tracked by a token, such as a house, a car, or an artwork. #1: Create Non-Fungible and Highly Collectable Item

The current obesity epidemic is staggering in terms of its magnitude and public health impact. Current guidelines recommend continuous energy restriction (CER) along with a comprehensive lifestyle intervention as the cornerstone of obesity treatment, yet this approach produces modest weight loss on average. …

In case you have not noticed, it’s been a busy month for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Below, I run down some of the biggest highlights around COVID-19 and FDA’s approval and authorization of vaccines for the US population. FDA Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine Get ready to learn how to say Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee). Today…

I should have known what I was getting into when I decided to write and rap a song on a topic most people struggle to communicate with every day. Data is a massive growing part of our world, finances, and all-out daily lives. We collaborated with the Business of Business…

Graph analytics will grow in the next few years due to the need to ask complex questions across complex data, which is not always practical or even possible at scale using SQL queries. …

Accelerating Predictive Capabilities — For the last 60 years, psychologists have done the initial testing and validation on what good science looks like when it comes to people. Over the past several decades, however, most companies have ignored it; and even further, they have systematically underfunded, devalued, and all but eviscerated most critical HR…