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Top 10 Hot Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies
[Tech]
2017/02/01 10:07
The market for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is flourishing. Beyond the hype and the heightened media attention, the numerous startups and the internet giants racing to acquire them, there is a significant increase in investment and adoption by enterprises. [click to enlarge]A Narrative Science survey found last year that 38% of enterprises are already using AI, growing to 62% by 20...
Uber was The Most-Expensed Service, with 6% of All Business Receipts in 2016
[Business]
2017/02/01 10:07
Uber continues to be the transportation service of choice for business travelers, making up 52 percent of all expenses in Q4, according to a study by Certify. The online travel and expense management service provider today claimed Uber received the majority share of ground transportation, compared to 40 percent the same quarter in 2015. Additionally, the private on-demand ride hailing service w...
3,358 Tech Exits in 2016, ‘Unicorn Births’ Down 68%
[Investing]
2017/02/01 10:07
We’ve kicked off 2017 with a surprise acquisition of what was planned to be the first big IPO of the year — Cisco snapping up AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, just days before its public listing — and what many believe will be an IPO filing for Snapchat’s parent Snap. But in contrast, it appears that 2016 represented a shift less frothy times.CB Insights has published its annual report of how...
A 23-Year-Old College Dropout Just Opened a Robot-Powered Coffee Kiosk in San Francisco
[Business]
2017/02/01 10:07
Henry Hu, 23, hates waiting in lines at coffee shops. The college dropout and recipient of the prestigious Thiel Fellowship throws back about five cups of coffee a day on average.Thanks to his new invention, other coffee fiends in San Francisco can now get their fix in seconds.Cafe X claims to be the first robot-powered café in the US. The kiosk takes customers' orders from a number of tablets...
An MIT Professor Designed This Supermarket of The Future
[Tech]
2017/02/01 10:07
When you pick up a tomato at the grocery store, you might judge it on its ripeness. You can't tell much else just by looking at it.But the tomato has a whole backstory — from the vine it grew on to the CO2 it generated on the farm to the chemical treatments it received.The "Supermarket of the Future" wants to give you that backstory. In late December, a custom Coop supermarket designed by MIT'...
Monthly Trend Report - February. 2017 Edition
[Trendbird]
2017/02/01 09:10
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(Patent) Future Apple Watch Straps Could Hide Extra Components
[Tech]
2017/01/25 10:20
Future Apple Watches could be customized by their users thanks to modular accessories built into their strap links, suggests a newly-published patent.These add-ons could include everything from extra displays and batteries to blood pressure and sweat sensors, GPS trackers, speakers, and even additional inputs devices such as force sensors.Described by Apple as a “Modular functional band links...
Hong Kong Retains Title of World’s Costliest Home Market
[Investing]
2017/01/25 10:20
Hong Kong retained its rank as the most expensive housing market among 406 major metropolitan regions in the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey for the seventh year in a row.The median price of a home in Hong Kong last year was 18.1 times the median annual pretax household income, the survey showed. While that’s a modest improvement in affordability compared with 19...
(Video) Is This Sewing Robot The Future Of Fashion ? Sewbo
[Tech]
2017/01/25 10:20
Startup Sewbo has figured out how to get a machine to sew an entire garment, and it may finally push clothing factories to fully automate.The former Seattle software developer has an unusual bedtime addiction: Binging on the Discovery Channel show How It’s Made."[The show] just tapes machines doing their thing over and over again," he says of the educational manufacturing series. "I find it se...
(PDF) MIT Sloan - Companies Brace for Decade of Disruption From AI
[Business]
2017/01/25 10:20
Executives of the nation’s biggest corporations fear that major disruption is on the horizon. This is a central finding of the 2017 Big Data Executive Survey from NewVantage Partners, which tracks the views of senior corporate executives on disruptive capabilities, ranging from Big Data to artificial intelligence.According to the fifth annual survey, which was released this month, nearly half...
(M&A) The First Tech IPO of 2017 is Cancelled: Cisco is Buying AppDynamics for $3.7 Billion
[Investing]
2017/01/25 10:19
AppDynamics, which would have been the first big tech IPO of 2017, is getting purchased by Cisco for $3.7 billion in cash and equity awards, according to a blog post. This is looking like a strong exit for AppDynamics: The San Francisco startup's now-scuppered IPO was looking to value the company at a maximum of $1.7 billion — less than its last private valuation of $1.9 billion. This means th...
(PDF) The US Has More Immigrant Inventors Than Every Other Country Combined
[Tech]
2017/01/25 10:19
The United States has an economic advantage that is the envy of the world. Inventors flock to the United States, like nowhere else.Recent research on the immigration patterns of high-skilled workers (pdf), shows that, from 2000 to 2010, the US received over 190,000 inventors migrate to the US, while only a little over 10,000 left the country. The US received more inventors combined than every o...
