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‘Artificial Leaf’ Successfully Produces Clean Gas - Syngas
[Tech]
2019/10/25 00:05
A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an ‘artificial leaf’ that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and which could eventually be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to petrol.Being able to produce syngas sustainably would be a critical step in closing the global carbon cycle and establishing a sustainable chemical an...
Silicon Valley’s Funding Share Shrinks
[Investing]
2019/10/25 00:04
Silicon Valley may be the gold standard for technology hubs. But when it comes to securing money for startups, the region that holds that moniker – the Northern California counties of Santa Clara and San Mateo – is actually taking in a smaller share of funding than it once did.Of course, less is relative. A Crunchbase News tally of reported funding rounds for startups in the core Silicon Vall...
Red Dot Design Concept Award 2019 Winner - The Dandelion
[Design]
2019/10/25 00:03
The Dandelion is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2019.If you think of it, your legs are the perfect transportation medium. Aside from the fact that they run on your energy, your legs can actually conquer any terrain. They can go up and down inclined surfaces just fine, can walk with relatively the same speed on pebbles, gravel, concrete, sand, and mud. Take that logic...
(PDF) BCG - What’s Trending in Jobs and Skills
[Consumer]
2019/10/24 00:10
Understanding economic trends in the broadest terms—which industries are expanding, which are on the downswing—can be as straightforward as keeping up with the business headlines. But it’s not quite as easy to get a similar grasp of the job market: not merely which jobs are growing and which are disappearing, but which skills are increasingly in demand—and which are becoming obsolete.The ab...
(Patent) IBM Patents Method of Controlling Digital Pen Using a Wearable Device
[Tech]
2019/10/24 00:09
US patent 10,423,236 discusses a method and a system for controlling a digital stylus from a wearable device by providing an indication as to how the digital stylus should be used on a computing device, and executing the indication from the wearable device. Figures illustrate gestures triggered by movements of a smart watch when an electronic pen is in use.Patent Application : http://bit.ly/2W5...
(Video) MIT's 'BILL-E Assembler Robots' Work Together to Build Large Structures
[Tech]
2019/10/24 00:08
Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.It's not uncommon for factories to make use of robots to manufacture things like cars, each responsible for a different part of the build process. Researchers from MIT have created prototype assembly robots that can build small structures on their own or work together to create bigger ones....
Women : Primed and Ready for Progress
[Consumer]
2019/10/24 00:07
For every ad featuring strong women and girls, there’s the inexplicable product that was marketed specifically to women—but didn’t have to be. From household cleaners to snacks, some brands are creating unnecessarily gendered versions of products and often charging women more for it. The spotlight on this practice, which is referred to as the “pink tax,” is growing hotter. And it’s leavin...
(Video) Briggo Coffee Partners with Whole Foods Market to Bring Robot Barista
[Business]
2019/10/24 00:06
Briggo, creator of the world's first gourmet, robotic barista, will open its first grocery store location in the US inside the new Houston-Midtown Whole Foods Market, scheduled to open November 7 [th] at 515 Elgin Street. Briggo has officially joined the Friends of Whole Foods Market program and will deliver shoppers an innovative, in-store coffee service which also includes Whole Foods Market...
The Strange Revival of Vinyl Records
[Business]
2019/10/24 00:05
This year sales will overtake those of fast-fading CDs.“THE LP WILL be around for a good long while,” Patricia Heimers, a spokeswoman for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), told the Associated Press in 1989. Ms Heimers’ prediction may then have seemed tin-eared. Sales of cassettes and CDs already far outstripped those of 12-inch glossy black platters. In the 1990s vinyl al...
