Meanwhile, Blockchain’s star is fading, Hired report shows.It’s a good time to be an engineer specializing in augmented reality or virtual reality. That’s the conclusion of the latest report by job site Hired, which just released its annual state of software engineers report. To compile its data, Hired reviewed 400,000 interview requests from 10,000 companies made to 98,000 job seekers throu...

Generating live video captions with AI could bolster engagement on social media, or serve as a benchmark for the task of translating video to text. Preliminary work to this end has employed encoder-decoder models to generate comments, but they haven’t modeled the interaction between videos and comments explicitly, so they’ve tended to generate irrelevant comments.That’s why a team of Microso...

But YouTube watching on TVs beats out Amazon and Hulu combined in the US, a new Nielsen study says.Netflix is big and it's getting bigger. And we're not just watching it on our phones and tablets: That dominance translates to the biggest screen in US homes too, according to a new study Tuesday from TV-measurement giant Nielsen. Netflix gobbles up 31% of streaming to TVs, beating every other ser...

Burgus Burger Bar partners with SavorEat on a system that ‘prints’ plant-based burgers on demand, to be piloted at some of the chain’s branches.[A prototype plant-based burger printed and cooked by SavorEat’s system. Photo: courtesy]Last year, ISRAEL21c reported on a 3D printer for plant-based burgers being developed by startup SavorEat. Now, Israeli hamburger restaurant group Burgus Burger...

Gone are the days when you just picked between tea and coffee; now it is about matcha, kombucha, spirulina, and activated charcoal drinks! Yes, everything in my previous sentence is real – it is enough to fluster anyone going to a cafe and trying to order healthy. My mother rightfully said “Why to pay for it outside when you can make it at home?” which brings me to another CES 2020 innovatio...

Redefining the future of sports.People have always had a passion for sports and now, emerging digital technologies are offering exciting new ways to enjoy them, transforming the fan experience, driving fans to the stadiums, and converting more and more online viewers. So what can organizations do to get a head start on this significant opportunity for growth and increasing brand value?The fan e...

A French programme applies some of the same principles of organisations like Alcoholics Anonymous to help people recycle more.Most people know they should recycle, but their good intentions can fall short when it comes to following through. French startup Yoyo is taking an innovative approach to this attitude, and are hoping to apply some of the behavioural change principles of organisations su...

Velóce Digital Health is working to make pills smarter. The Denver, Colorado company is developing the SmartTab, an ingestible capsule that can be wirelessly controlled via a smartphone to release its contents at precise locations within the gastrointestinal system.“The idea is that [with] the smart capsule, you will have precision medicine and delivered to a very targeted area,” says Robert...

Owners’ willingness to splurge is a treat for a booming industry.AMERICANS ADORE their pets. Roughly two in three households own one, according to the American Pet Products Association, a trade group. Dogs are loved most of all: they outnumber cats by about five to four, according to GfK, a market-research firm. Nowhere is America’s devotion to dogs more evident than at the Westminster Dog Sh...