Augmentiqs sought to revolutionize the digital pathology industry.For thousands of years, microscopes have allowed scientists, doctors, and lab professionals to view enlarged images of small objects, cells, bacteria, and other agents that cannot be seen by the naked eye, for the purpose of analysis and examination. Since the invention of the first microscope around 1590, these devices have come...

Particulates, smog and industrial emissions. Cooking smells, cooking gas, cleansing agents, chemical residues of soaps and perfumes. Not to mention dust and smoke. All of these float in the air we unsuspectingly breathe at home, in the office or in the street. A pollutants cocktail that takes your breath away. This is why Anemotech, an Italian startup founded in 2014 in Casei Gerola, in the pro...

Researchers have successfully bypassed the eyes with a brain implant that allows rudimentary vision.“Allí,” says Bernardeta Gómez in her native Spanish, pointing to a large black line running across a white sheet of cardboard propped at arm’s length in front of her. “There.”It isn’t exactly an impressive feat for a 57-year-old woman—except that Gómez is blind. And she’s been that way...

Manufacturing’s leaders in applying Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) digital technologies are building on their head start—generating even more value across the entire enterprise.The latest findings from the Global Lighthouse Network, an ongoing research project by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with McKinsey, confirm the transformative power of innovative manufacturing technolog...

The US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals another Apple engineering team is working on making the Digital Crown more relevant by adding Touch ID to the mechanism. A future Apple Watch, according to Apple, may include a housing defining a side surface of the electronic watch, a transparent cover coupled to the housing and defining a front surface...

The automaker violates a tried-and-true investing playbook. Perhaps the game has changed.Nir Kaissar is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering the markets. He is the founder of Unison Advisors, an asset management firm. He has worked as a lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell and a consultant at Ernst & Young.There may be more riding on the future of Tesla Inc. than cars. The electric-vehicle m...

Given the scale and rapid spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) acute respiratory disease, there is an immediate need for medicines that can help before a vaccine can be produced. Results of rapid sequencing of 2019-nCoV, coupled with molecular modelling based on the genomes of related virus proteins,1 have suggested a few compounds that are likely to be effective, including the anti...

Wristbuds combine a smartwatch and wireless earbuds in one gadget.Store and charge your wireless earbuds in your smartwatch Being able to track a morning jog and listen to some tunes without carrying a phone around is surely one of the key selling points of modern-day smartwatches – so why not combine the smartwatch and a pair of wireless earbuds in one compact form?That's the thinking behind...

While some US consumers are warming to the idea of making voice-based purchases via smart speakers, the number of those doing so is smaller than initially estimated. In our latest forecast on smart speaker users, we lowered our outlook for the number of smart speaker buyers (people making a purchase via a smart speaker) as well as the number of smart speaker users (people who use smart speakers...