Almost 20 years ago, when SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) swept China, the habits of China’s population changed for good. And early indications across the country are that the Coronoavirus (COVID-19) may have similar long-term effects.The SARS epidemic, which also began in China, killed 774 people worldwide.Nielsen has undertaken a deep comparative study on the historic impact of SARS...

Talespin, a spatial computing company focused on workforce knowledge transfer and skill alignment, announced it has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Cornerstone OnDemand®, a provider of cloud-based learning, talent management and talent experience software. Cornerstone also announced an ongoing partnership with Talespin, to deliver Talespin’s extended reali...

While it’s too early to gauge the full economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak, the OECD has already slashed its growth forecast for the world economy as the virus continues to spread outside of China. In its latest Interim Economic Assessment Report, the organization expects the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak to be severe, resulting in a 0.5 percentage point downward revision of its for...

The new chargers offer continuous full power and load balancing, and a design that is adaptable to any type of electric car.Netherlands-based company, EvBox, has developed ultra-fast electric car chargers that signify a new generation of electric car supplies, according to the company. The EVBox Troniq 100 boasts an output of 100 kW, and the redesigned EVBox Ultroniq will have an output of up t...

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary and Trends Report uses YRBS data to focus on four priority focus areas associated with STDs, including HIV, and unintended teen pregnancy:To raise awareness and understanding, this report presents the 2017 data by sex, by race/ethnicity, and for sexual minority youth. The report looks at the past decade and examines linear YRBS trends for each focus a...

A new type of artificial eye, made by combining light-sensing electronics with a neural network on a single tiny chip, can make sense of what it’s seeing in just a few nanoseconds, far faster than existing image sensors.Why it matters: Computer vision is integral to many applications of AI—from driverless cars to industrial robots to smart sensors that act as our eyes in remote locations—and...

Some of the industry’s biggest events have been postponed, moved online, or canceled altogether.After the Mobile World Congress got canceled in February, several more companies are shutting down their own conferences. As the novel coronavirus continues to take a human and economic toll across the world, the lucrative business of tech conferences is not immune.The direct economic loss from the...

Architecture firm MVRDV has collaborated with aircraft manufacturer Airbus to research how landing hubs for passenger drones, called vertiports, could become part of transportation networks in future cities.The report, called Urban Air Mobility (UAM) City Integration, focused on how vertiports could serve aerial vehicle technology and supplement existing transport networks.MVRDV founding partne...

The coronavirus outbreak is first and foremost a human tragedy, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. It is also having a growing impact on the global economy. This article is intended to provide business leaders with a perspective on the evolving situation and implications for their companies. The outbreak is moving quickly, and some of the perspectives in this article may fall rapidly ou...