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Technology

Google Glass is back—now with artificial intelligence | Wired

A year after Google gave up on selling Google Glass to consumers, the device is popping up again in the form of a business tool called the Google Glass Enterprise Edition.

Pentagon to increase health records contract ceiling by another billion | Nextgov

The Defense Department will increase the funding ceiling for its new Cerner EHR by $1.1 billion. The project, whose contract currently stands at $4.3 billion, has been delayed, with the software deemed "neither operationally effective nor operationally suitable."

As Amazon lurks, Walgreens launches digital marketplace listing providers and prices | Forbes

Walgreens' "Find Care Now" platform shows prices for healthcare services from local providers. So far, Advocate, Baptist Health, New York-Presbyterian, and others have joined the platform.

15 books HIT leaders are reading this summer | Health Data Management

AHIMA CEO Wylecia Wiggs harris is reading "Dual Transformation"; Albert Oriol is reading "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"; and Dave Millers is reading "Verbal Judo."

Pharmaceuticals

Merck shares rise 1.5% on Q2 beats | Marketwatch

Merck reported $1.71 billion in earnings for the second quarter, down from $1.95 billion in the second quarter of 2017. Revenue was up slightly, to $10.47 billion.

In other news

Don't miss the century's longest lunar eclipse tonight | Quartz

The lunar eclipse today will also be a blood moon, when the moon's glow remains. That glow turns orange-red because of Rayleigh scattering, which happens to light as it goes through the Earth's atmosphere: Shorter, blue and violet wavelengths scatter, while longer, red and orange, wavelengths make it through.