For more than three decades, the researchers and practitioners that make up the high-performance computing (HPC) community will come together for their annual event. More than ten thousand strong in attendance, the global community will converge on Denver, Colorado to advance the state-of-the-art in HPC.
Quelle: Azure
Tschüss, Downloads, Datenträger und Installationsroutinen: Mit Google Stadia können wir einfach losspielen. Beim Test hat das unter Echtweltbedingungen schon ziemlich gut geklappt – trotz der teils enormen Datenmengen und vielen fehlenden Funktionen. Von Peter Steinlechner (Stadia, Google)
Quelle: Golem
Speziell für den Adaptive Controller bringt Logitech eine Auswahl an Knöpfen und Triggern als Komplettset auf den Markt. Das Adaptive Gaming Kit wird per Klinkenbuchse angeschlossen und soll auch Menschen mit Behinderung zum Spielen verhelfen. (Logitech, Eingabegerät)
Quelle: Golem
Der Mann in der Lederjacke, der T-Mobile US ein neues erfolgreiches Image gegeben hat, verlässt das Unternehmen. Doch John Legere setzt sich nicht zur Ruhe. (John Legere, Telekom)
Quelle: Golem
Die Immobiliengesellschaft Deutsche Wohnen will das kürzlich verhängte DSGVO-Bußgeld nicht akzeptieren. Nun müssen die Datenschutzbehörde und gegebenenfalls ein Gericht den Sachverhalt klären. (DSGVO, Datenschutz)
Quelle: Golem
According to the UN, we will see the world's urban populations grow from today's 55 percent to 68 percent by 2050. With almost a billion people on the path to be urban dwellers, most cities are still unfriendly to people with disabilities. As more people flock to cities, making our cities smarter and more inclusive will become increasingly important. The concept of smart cities is all about developing strategies that leverage data and technology to enhance urban life. The IoT plays a central role in collecting sensor data and then using the insights gained from that data to manage assets, resources, and services efficiently.
As city planners tackle the complex challenges of increasing urbanization, managing scarce resources, climate change, and creating safer more accessible cities, Azure Maps (a collection of geospatial APIs) becomes a critical tool for city planners. A key aspect of IoT & technology solutions is that they should be intuitive, easy to use, and accessible.
Azure Maps and accessibility
Azure Maps makes it easy for all users to navigate an interactive map experience. Users can interact with maps using a mouse, touch, or keyboard. Azure Maps provides screen readers with enhanced descriptions that can combine multiple updates into a single message that is easier to digest and understand. Recently Azure Maps achieved exciting new capabilities & Microsoft certification around accessibility. All apps, both Microsoft owned and third party, that use Azure Maps will benefit from the accessibility features that are provided out of the box.
Azure Maps also relies on best of breed content partnerships for everything from the maps data, traffic, real time transit, ride share, to weather data.
Moovit helps people with disabilities ride transit
One of the Azure Maps content partnerships is with Moovit. Launched in 2011 in Israel, Moovit has become the world’s most popular transit-planning and navigation app, with more than 500 million users and service in over 3,000 cities across 94 countries. The company is also a leader in inclusive technology, with innovative work that helps people across the disability spectrum use buses, trains, subways, ride-hailing services, and other modes of public transit.
In addition to offering a consumer app in 45 languages, Moovit has partnered with Microsoft to provide its multi-modal transit data to developers who use Azure Maps, and a set of mobility-as-a-service solutions to cities, governments, and organizations. The partnership will enable the creation of more inclusive smart cities and more accessible transit apps.
How Aira helps smart cities become more accessible
One of the companies that is leveraging the geospatial and mapping capabilities from Azure Maps and the transit capabilities from Moovit, is Aira. Aira is a technology company dedicated to making lives simpler and more engaging. Based in San Diego, California, they build solutions to connect people who are blind, have low vision, or are simply aging into a digital world, with highly-trained professionals who provide visual information on demand.
Public transportation is the lifeline to jobs, education, healthcare, and more, yet many blind or low vision riders still have trouble getting to their destination. They may be uncertain that they’ve caught the right bus, or unable to read the entrance sign they need to follow in order to access the subway. In addition, as populations age, the number of people experiencing age-related vision loss rises every day. Moovit, Microsoft, and Aira are joining forces in order to challenge these obstacles and make public transit more accessible and inclusive, empowering blind and low vision riders to travel with more confidence.
“In Azure Maps, we invested significant time and resources to define accessibility requirements, implementing capabilities for those with needs, and pushing ourselves to service this segment of users” says Chris Pendleton, Head of Azure Maps at Microsoft Corp. “I’m elated to see Aira, Moovit, and Azure Maps providing services together further justifying our investments in the benefit of those who need it most”
Smart City Expo World Congress
In order to connect with cities on their journeys for digital transformation, the Azure Maps team, along with Moovit and Aira, will be at Smart City Expo World Congress, the industry-leading event for urbanization, showcasing technologies and partners enabling the digital transformation of smart cities. For updates from SCEWC, follow us on twitter.
Quelle: Azure
Microsoft is expanding the ecosystem of FHIR® for developers with a new tool to securely ingest, normalize, and persist Protected Health Information (PHI) from IoMT devices in the cloud.
Continuing our commitment to remove the barriers of interoperability in healthcare, we are excited to expand our portfolio of Open Source Software (OSS) to support the HL7 FHIR Standard (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource). The release of the new IoMT FHIR Connector for Azure is available today in GitHub.
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is the subset of IoT devices that capture and transmit patient health data. It represents one of the largest technology revolutions changing the way we deliver healthcare, but IoMT also presents a big challenge for data management.
Data from IoMT devices is often high frequency, high volume, and requires sub-second measurements. Developers have to deal with a range of devices and schemas, from sensors worn on the body, ambient data capture devices, applications that document patient reported outcomes, and even devices that only require the patient to be within a few meters of a sensor.
Traditional healthcare providers, innovators, and even pharma and life sciences researchers are ushering in a new era of healthcare that leverages machine learning and analytics from IoMT devices. Most see a future where devices monitoring patients in their daily lives will be used as a standard approach to deliver cost savings, improve patient visibility outside of the physician’s office, and to create new insights for patient care. Yet as new IoMT apps and solutions are developed, two consistent barriers are preventing broad scalability of these solutions: interoperability of IoMT device data with the rest of the healthcare data, such as clinical or pharmaceutical records, and the security and private exchange of protected health information (PHI) from these devices in the cloud.
In the last several years, the provider ecosystem began to embrace the open source standard of FHIR as a solution for interoperability. FHIR is rapidly becoming the preferred standard for exchanging and managing healthcare information in electronic format and has been most successful in the exchange of clinical health records. We wanted to expand the ecosystem and help developers working with IoMT devices to normalize their data output in FHIR. The robust, extensible data model of FHIR standardizes the semantics of healthcare data and defines standards for exchange, so it fuels interoperability across data systems. We imagined a world where data from multiple device inputs and clinical health data sets could be quickly normalized around FHIR and work together in just minutes, without the added cost and engineering work to manage custom configurations and integration with each and every device and app interface. We wanted to deliver foundational technology that developers could trust so they could focus on innovation. And today, we’re releasing the IoMT FHIR Connector for Azure.
This OSS release opens an exciting new horizon for healthcare data management. It provides a simple tool that can empower application developers and technical professionals working with data from devices to quickly ingest and transform that data into FHIR. By connecting to the Azure API for FHIR, developers can set up a robust and secure pipeline to manage data from IoMT devices in the cloud.
The IoMT FHIR Connector for Azure enables easy deployment in minutes, so developers can begin managing IoMT data in a FHIR Server that supports the latest R4 version of FHIR:
Rapid provisioning for ingestion of IoMT data and connectivity to a designated FHIR Server for secure, private, and compliant persistence of PHI data in the cloud
Normalization and integrated mapping to transform data to the HL7 FHIR R4 Standard
Seamless connectivity with Azure Stream Analytics to query and refine IoMT data in real-time
Simplified IoMT device management and the ability to scale through Azure IoT services (including Azure IoT Hub or Azure IoT Central)
Secure management for PHI data in the cloud, the IoMT FHIR Connector for Azure has been developed for HIPAA, HITRUST, and GDPR compliance and in full support of requirements for protected health information (PHI)
To enhance scale and connectivity with common patient-facing platforms that collect device data, we’ve also created a FHIR HealthKit framework that works with the IoMT FHIR Connector. If patients are managing data from multiple devices through the Apple Health application, a developer can use the IoMT FHIR Connector to quickly ingest data from all of the devices through the HealthKit API and export it to their FHIR server.
Playing with FHIR
The Microsoft Health engineering team is fully backing this open source project, but like all open source, we are excited to see it grow and improve based on the community's feedback and contributions. Next week we’ll be joining developers around the world for FHIR Dev Days in Amsterdam to play with the new IoMT FHIR Connector for Azure. Learn more about the architecture of the IoMT FHIR Connector and how to contribute to the project on our GitHub page.
FHIR® is the registered trademark of HL7 and is used with the permission of HL7
Quelle: Azure
Der DNS-Client in Windows bekommt Unterstützung für das verschlüsselte DNS über HTTPS (DoH). Nutzer sollen dabei ähnlich wie im Chrome-Browser auf den DOH-Server ihres bisherigen DNS-Server migriert werden, falls verfügbar. (DNS, Microsoft)
Quelle: Golem
Neben Sammelkarten konnten auch Nutzerdaten bei dem Hersteller des Spiels “Magic: The Gathering” gesammelt werden. Das Unternehmen ließ eine Backup-Datenbank mit den Nutzerdaten von hunderttausenden Spielern frei zugänglich im Internet. (Datenleck, Datenschutz)
Quelle: Golem
Vor vier Jahren hat der Flugzeughersteller Boeing angefangen, die Montage des Rumpfes der Boeing 777 zu automatisieren. Der Roboter hat jedoch nicht den Erwartungen entsprochen. Jetzt machen wieder Menschen die Arbeit. (Boeing, Roboter)
Quelle: Golem
