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(PDF) Generation CS : Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments Surge Since 2006
[Consumer]
2017/03/05 10:08
Across the United States and Canada, universities and colleges are facing a significant increase in enrollment in both undergraduate computer science (CS) courses and programs. The current enrollment surge has exceeded previous CS booms, and there is a general sense that the current growth in enrollment is substantially different than that of the mid-1980s and late 1990s. To investigate the cur...
(Video) Stryker to Use Microsoft HoloLens Augmented Reality Goggles to Design ORs
[Tech]
2017/03/05 10:07
Stryker, the company best known for orthopedic implants and devices, is also in the business of designing operating rooms. Planning an efficient surgical environment that can serve various needs has meant trying different configurations in real life, or on a small, flat computer screen. Since it seems like we’re living in the future, Stryker has now partnered with Microsoft to use the latter’...
Smartphone Life Cycles Are Changing
[Consumer]
2017/03/05 10:06
The average smartphone is faster than ever, the two-year contract is all but dead, and the average upgrades between phone generations have, in many cases, become less stark.Add it all up, and you get this chart from Statista, which shows how smartphone buyers across America and Europe are holding onto their phones for longer periods of time. According to a recent report from analyst firm Kantar...
(M&A) Yelp Picks Up Restaurant Waitlist App Nowait for $40 Million
[Investing]
2017/03/05 10:05
Yelp has acquired restaurant reservation app Nowait for $40 million, in an all-cash deal, the companies announced this morning. The move will bring Nowait’s waitlist system and seating tool to Yelp, where it’s been integrated in the Yelp app, to complement the existing Yelp reservations product and its mobile food-ordering system, Yelp Eat24.Founded in 2010 and now headed by Ware Sykes, previ...
Virtual Reality Shows Children What to Expect Before MRI
[Business]
2017/03/05 10:04
King’s College Hospital in London now offers the My MRI at King’s virtual reality app for children and their parents to use before children undergo the scan.For many children, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan can be extremely scary, with general anesthetic often the only way to help them get through the experience. Now, two of London’s King’s College Hospital’s staff members have cr...
Last Mile Deliveries from Mercedes - The Mercedes-Benz E.livery
[Design]
2017/03/05 10:03
As urban areas grow, so shrink the pathways for delivery trucks! Some cities have even placed restrictions on commercial vehicle sizes. Designed in response to this issue, the Mercedes-Benz E.livery Concept aims to make last mile deliveries possible even in tight squeezes!This modern EV operates in absolute autonomy, coordinating with larger freight carriers and directly with customers to ensur...
(Video) IDEO Envisions Ride-Sharing Car Concept for 'The Future of Moving Together'
[Design]
2017/03/02 10:55
A new project from acclaimed design firm Ideo presents one of the most compelling visions to date of an autonomous, ride-sharing future. It places the car at the center of a new marketplace, one where owners of an autonomous vehicle can toggle between ride sharing, car sharing, and private use. Drivers can choose to ride solo or offset the cost of their car by picking up passengers or renting i...
(PDF) PwC - Total Retail 2017 : 10 Retailer Investments for an Uncertain Future
[Business]
2017/03/02 10:54
With the need to transform more acute than ever, the time is now for retailers to decide what their future looks like.A golden age in consumer choice means challenging times for retailers An advertisement for Colgate’s “Ribbon Dental Cream” from a January 1912 edition of The Youth’s Companion magazine features the tag line “For all the Family.” The ad promises “Good Teeth, Good Health, a...
Longevity in Rich Countries
[Consumer]
2017/03/02 10:54
A new study suggests South Koreans will have the world’s highest life expectancy by 2030.POPULATION forecasting is not simple. Demographers use mortality data—information about when people die and why—to estimate the likely life expectancy of people still alive. The UN, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and others produce periodic forecasts that are fairly similar. Wealthy countries such a...
(Video) Sony Launches Xperia Touch Projector That Turns Any Surface Into a Touchscreen
[Product]
2017/03/02 10:54
Floors, tables and walls can be transformed into iPad-like touchscreens using Sony's new projector, which launched at this week's Mobile World Congress.The Xperia Touch is an interactive projector that Sony's innovation division, the Future Lab, first previewed as an experimental concept at SXSW last year. Now Sony Mobile is gearing up to release the product to consumers from spring 2017. The p...
(Video) Israeli Startup Goji Is Planning the Oven of the Future
[Tech]
2017/03/02 10:54
The next-generation kitchen ovens promise perfect cooking using solid-state RF transmitters and sensors.Every year, we hear about new models of ovens and microwaves with new functions and features that are meant to make our lives easier in the kitchen. But the truth is, the microwave oven’s fundamental technology has improved very little since its mid-20th-century introduction. That might all...
Smartphone's Victims
[Business]
2017/03/02 10:54
As the mobile industry is gathering in Barcelona this week to show off the latest trends in smartphone technology, it’s time to spare a thought for those devices that have fallen victim to the smartphone’s unstoppable rise. Ten years ago – the iPhone had just been unveiled but was yet to be unleashed on the world – we used to rely on a variety of devices to help us complete different tasks....
