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China’s Growth is the Slowest in Nearly Three Decades: Get Used to It
[Investing]
2019/07/16 07:22
The trade war with America hurts, but the government is wary of stimulus.CHINA’S ECONOMY is slowing, again. After a good start to the year annual growth slipped to 6.2% in the second quarter, the country’s weakest expansion in nearly three decades. But that is hardly cause for panic. For an economy now worth nearly $14trn, such a growth rate is impressive. As the trade war with America hurts...
Smart Glasses System Treats Stress, Anxiety, and Depression - JoanGlass
[Design]
2019/07/16 07:22
Inspired by his mother that suffered from schizophrenia, Matt Wolf has designed JoanGlass, it’s a concept smart glasses system that helps to treat illness such as stress, anxiety, and depression. The science lies in its frame, it has built-in haptic beating device that’s capable to massage area between eyebrows, it’s where chronic muscular tension occurs. The handles integrates electromagnet...
(Infographic) How Platinum Improves Our World
[Tech]
2019/07/16 07:22
Within the hierarchy of precious metals, there is only one metal that could arguably stand above gold, and that is platinum.This is due in large part to the metal’s rarity throughout history. Its earliest known use was on the Casket of Thebes in Ancient Egypt. South American Indigenous populations also used platinum for jewelry.But platinum’s value goes beyond being a precious metal—its spec...
(PDF) China Internet Report 2019
[Business]
2019/07/15 15:18
China has emerged on the world stage with a host of global tech companies that are innovative and competitive. And increasingly, their successes are being studied and replicated in other markets. This report, informed by on-the-ground reporting by the South China Morning Post and Abacus, offers insights into China’s tech trailblazers and the big important trends shaping the world’s biggest in...
(Patent) Samsung Seeks Patent on Folding AR Glasses with Frame-Activated Screen
[Tech]
2019/07/15 15:18
Newly published patent application (via Patently Apple) suggests that it’s actively working on AR glasses with at least one interesting feature: a display that is automatically powered on and off by the frames.While some AR headsets — including Microsoft’s HoloLens and Magic Leap One — wrap fully around the head like industrial goggles, Samsung’s design looks closer to a pair of plastic su...
(PDF) Machine Learning Helps Robot Harvest Lettuce for the First Time
[Tech]
2019/07/15 15:17
The robot is not near a commercial stage but instead has been developed to pioneer new computer vision and engineering processes for future agricultural outcomes.Engineers from the University of Cambridge have developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously identify and harvest iceberg lettuce, one of the more manually demanding crops for human pickers. Vegebot was trained using a mac...
(PDF) Deloitte - Scaling IoT to Meet Enterprise Needs
[Business]
2019/07/15 15:17
Enterprises are increasingly complementing their cloud-based IoT solutions with edge computing to accelerate the pace of data analysis and make better decisions, faster.JUST a few years ago, many expected all the Internet of Things (IoT) to move to the cloud—and much of the consumer-connected IoT indeed lives there—but one of the key basics of designing and building enterprise-scale IoT sol...
Kibus is Like a Keurig for Your Pet
[Product]
2019/07/15 15:17
In a pitch during a recent meeting at Brinc’s Hong Kong headquarters, the Barcelona-based team behind Kibus Petcare was quick to point out that most millennials consider pets “a member of the family.” That sort of statement manifests itself in various ways, of course, but for many, that means preparing home cooked meals for their dogs and cats.As a rabbit owner myself, that fortunately mostl...
Trends That May End With The Baby Boomers
[Consumer]
2019/07/15 15:17
My example wasn’t exactly ground-breaking but here are some other things that will likely go away for good with the older generation: photo albums, landline phones, cable boxes, cash, clipping coupons, wearing socks with sandals, the phrase “beer o’clock”, newspapers, restaurant pagers, keys, Yellow Pages, and checks.People these days love to predict the end of things but I’m not smart to...
