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Whether it’s for travel or a long-term stay, going abroad means you’ll have lots of things to plan. It’s easy to forget certain details. Like, have you thought about medical coverage and care? If you’re suddenly feeling anxious, here’s a checklist that can make things easier, whether you end up facing an emergency, or a routine check-up: -Are you covered?  Even if you’re just going overseas for a few days, you may not be covered under your current insurance plan, whether it’s

While Spanish is the most translated language in the United States, these translations are often fraught with errors because translators are not fully accounting for the wide range of usage and vocabulary differences that due to the regional differences in the language.  While over 300 million people speak Spanish, regional and local usage variations have created translation difficulties for those trying to create one version of their Spanish documents for global use.  In a n

The first time I saw someone use Siri, I was amazed.  How cool is it to have a sort of virtual personal assistant who almost instantly fetches information about everything from driving directions to photos of celebrities, and jokes with you, too? When I heard about Cleverbot, I felt like we’d gotten even closer to that sci-fi dream of a sassy robot sidekick.  Cleverbot is a chatterbot – an A.I. application that lets you converse with it.  Its responses come from an algorithm

The International Business Times published one of the few articles that discussed the beneficial publicity effect for the facility, which the star name-checked in her Times op-ed and on whose website her face subsequently appeared, encouraging visitors to follow the Center on Twitter and so forth. The author speculates that in exchange for her endorsement, the actress was guaranteed privacy, since in today’s paparazzi-crowded world it should have been virtually impossible for

In 2010, Medicare paid more than $17.5 billion dollars for unplanned hospital readmissions as almost one in five Medicare patients returned within a month of discharge. October 2012, the Affordable Care Act began adjusting hospital payments according to it’s value-based purchasing program (VBP) which rewards value over volume and bases performance on quality measures such as readmission rates. Among others, a recent study by Hong Tao from the University of Wisconsin found in