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Apple Reportedly Has a “Super Secret” Project to Change the Way We Treat Diabetes
[Business]
2017/04/16 10:08
Apple is reportedly working on a “super secret” medical project: building sensors to monitor blood sugar levels without piercing the skin.According to CNBC, the iPhone maker has been working on this for at least five years, quietly hiring dozens of biomedical engineers and sequestering them in a nondescript Palo Alto office.It may be intended to connect to the Apple Watch, which Apple CEO Tim...
(Infographic) China's Massive Investment in US 2000-2016
[Investing]
2017/04/16 10:07
Part of being a global superpower is having some money to throw around. Want to fund a giant 80 million person megacity in the Pearl River Delta for $322 billion? Piece of cake. Re-build the Silk Road for up to $1 trillion? Not an issue.But China doesn’t only show off its deep pockets domestically. The country has also been extremely active on the global market, buying up everything from natur...
(PDF) Emotional Chatting Machine Assesses Your Emotion and Copies It
[Tech]
2017/04/16 10:06
Chatbots have never been able to empathize. That looks set to change, thanks to a Chinese team that has built a chatbot capable of conveying specific emotions. Chatbots have a long and venerable history dating back to the 1960s and the famous Eliza bot that fooled some people into thinking they were chatting with a real human. Since then, computer programs capable of conducting conversations ha...
(Video) New Augmented Reality Game Encourages Theft - Snatch
[Business]
2017/04/16 10:05
Snatch, the latest offering in AR communal gaming, mixes real life with geolocation prizes to create a treasure hunt with a difference - stealing.Using AR mechanics not unlike Pokemon GO!, Snatch is the latest iOS and Android game that encourages users to go on a real-life treasure hunt seeking digital collectables. The main difference here is that once parcels have been collected, users have t...
What Our 7 Billion World Population Does ?
[Consumer]
2017/04/16 10:04
There is a finite number of people in the world – about 7 billion. No business or government can have more customers than the world population. So what do world’s people do every day?And there is a finite number of hours in a day – 24. No one can extend them. Our lives are also finite – about 78 years, if you average all lives in the world today. Knowing what the people of the world do with...
Smile or Scream in virtual reality with an Expression-Translating Mask - MindMaze
[Product]
2017/04/16 10:03
MindMaze's Mask insert is designed to stream real-time facial expressions to your VR avatar.The best VR experiences let users use their real-life bodies to maneuver in the virtual world. MindMaze wants to extend that immersion to include the user's facial expressions: Its latest product, Mask, is a headset insert that tracks the wearer's expressions and transmits them to their VR avatar.That me...
Amazon Will Make Up 50% of All U.S. E-Commerce by 2021
[Investing]
2017/04/13 10:00
Brick-and-mortar retailers should expect no relief from Amazon.com's relentless march to e-commerce dominance.The online retailer, which accounts for about 34% of U.S. online sales, should see that market share grow to about 50% by 2021, helped how the popularity of its Prime membership program and its marketplaces, Wall Street firm Needham said in a research note on Monday. The firm upgraded i...
(Video) Robot Volleyball Machine Helps Japan Team Practise Attacks
[Tech]
2017/04/13 09:59
Hands up if you’re a robot - supported in part by the High Performance Support Project, Japan Sports AgencyTo perfect their attacks, some of Japan’s top volleyball players are training against a robot that can mimic the tactics of opposing teams.The Japanese Volleyball Association’s “block machine” consists of three pairs of robotic arms that move side to side in front of the net. These re...
Shenzhen "The Silcon Valley of Hardware" is a Hothouse of Innovation
[Business]
2017/04/13 09:59
Copycats are out, innovators are in.ON A RECENT weekend several hundred academics and lawyers gathered in a hotel ballroom in Shenzhen for a discussion on “Innovation, inclusion and order”, an event jointly organised by the law schools at Peking, Oxford and Stanford universities. Legal conferences can be soporific, especially in China, and a scholar from Beijing duly set the tone by asserting...
(Video) Aeromobil to Unveil New Flying Car Model Available for Preorder This Year
[Product]
2017/04/13 09:59
Founded in 1990, areomobile has long since been perfecting its flying car prototype, with the first version of the 3.0 model unveiled back in 2014. yet it seems that this is the year that the air-to-sky vehicle will go from render to reality, with the company announcing that the new model will be launched at top marques monaco on april 20th this year. the new model of aeromobil will be the comp...
For Programmers, The Ultimate Office Perk is Avoiding the Office Entirely
[Consumer]
2017/04/13 09:59
Slack, Skype, Google Hangouts, Basecamp, BlueJeans. Over the past decade, designers and engineers have invented dozens of new tools to keep us connected to the office without actually going there.Unsurprisingly, those same engineers have been among the first to start using them in large numbers. More programmers are working from home than ever and, among the most experienced, some are even begi...
(Video) Touch-Sensitive, Elastic Fibers Offer New Interface for Electronics
[Tech]
2017/04/13 09:59
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created elastic, touch-sensitive fibers that can interface with electronic devices.“Touch is a common way to interact with electronics using keyboards and touch screens,” says Michael Dickey, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the work. “We have created soft and...
