Mendel, a San Jose, CA-based clinical AI platform that understands the unstructured, natural language content within medical documents, raised $18m in Series A funding.The round was led by DCM, with participation from OliveTree, Zola Global Investors and Millennium Technology Value Partners and return investors Launch Capital, SOSV, Bootstrap Labs and Chairman of UCSF Health Hub Mark Goldstein....

Advertising giant Facebook announced Wednesday that they’re going to begin testing advertising inside virtual reality titles on its Oculus platform soon. The first roll-out is limited enough, with Facebook testing ads inside a single gaming shooter title: Blaston from Resolution Games. They are interestingly not rolling this out with a first-party title, though I’m sure integration with Oculu...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, forcing gyms to shutter and public transportation to suspend operation, millions of Americans re-discovered bicycles as a safe, socially-distanced form of physical exercise and transportation. The latest bike boom hit retailers unprepared, causing new bicycles to become a scarce commodity, exacerbated by the fact that global bicycl...

Using VR and data visualization, they let sleepers watch their own brain waves as they drifted off. People who sleep well go to bed calm, while those who don’t lie in bed anxious or ruminating. But as anyone who has trouble sleeping knows, you can’t always just tell your racing brain to relax and forget about that student loan debt until tomorrow morning. So sleeping poorly can be a self-rein...

They share the same 1-inch camera sensor and '240Hz' display.Following the long-time collaboration with Huawei and the more recent Sharp Aquos R6, Leica is finally launching its own smartphone. Announced at a Tokyo press conference earlier today, the Leitz Phone 1 is Leica's first self-branded mobile phone, and it'll be a Softbank exclusive when it launches in July. The camera maker isn't afrai...

U.S. patent application, US20210176548, discloses a method for producing a haptic output associated with a virtual-reality environment. The method includes detecting a notification associated with a graphical object or the presence of an audio source, determining whether a head-mounted haptic accessory is being worn by the user, and initiating the actuation pattern to produce a directional hapt...

An inked-up member of K-Pop boy group BTS has revived a discussion about tattoos, the taboos and also the laws surrounding their existence in South Korea. The group’s youngest member, Jungkook, showed his tattoo sleeve at the band’s online anniversary concert Muster Sowoozoo Sunday, igniting a storm of tweets and google searches.Fans had caught glimpses of the singer’s tattoos, especially hi...

The less useful the data is, the faster it 'expires' and is purged from by the system.Computers are just too good at remembering all the stuff we teach them. Normally, that’s fine; you wouldn’t want the systems that maintain your medical or financial records to start randomly dropping 1s and 0s (OK, well maybe the one that tracks your credit card debt, but other than that). However, these sys...

Together IKEA and Sonos want to democratise music and sound in the home and bring a better listening experience to the many people. With the new SYMFONISK picture frame WiFi speaker, people can enjoy both room-filling sound and a beautiful piece of art. Research shows that many people believe music is the single most important ingredient for creating the right atmosphere at home. IKEA and Sonos...