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The World's Best Rainwear for Sneakers - Rain Socks
[Product]
2018/07/09 11:13
Protect your favorite shoes from the rain with the ONFAdd Rain Socks Disposable Rain Footwear. This portable and stylish cover has a simple and intuitive design. Simply wear the Rain Socks over your shoes to keep them dry when it’s raining. Made from a stretchy rubber material, you can quickly take the Rain Socks on and off. Plus, they won’t ruin the aesthetic of your shoe. In addition, latex...
(Infographic) The World’s 20 Largest Tech Giants
[Business]
2018/07/09 11:13
Large companies can be located all over the globe.For example, massive auto companies can be found practically anywhere on a map. Ford (USA), Toyota (Japan), Volkswagen (Germany), Hyundai (South Korea), Volvo (Sweden), Tata Motors (India), and Magna (Canada) are just some of the biggest companies involved in the production of vehicles or parts.While the banking, pharma, energy, and retail indus...
(PDF) Owning an Apple iPhone or iPad is an Indicator of Wealth in the U.S. Say Economists
[Consumer]
2018/07/09 11:13
There are plenty of ways you can show the public that you're extremely wealthy. You could tool around town in an expensive car, wear some fancy duds, live in a giant mansion, or carry an Apple iPhone. An iPhone? According to a report written by the University of Chicago and the National Bureau of Economic Research, in the U.S. owning an iPhone is an indicator that you are in a higher tax bracke...
China's First Level 4 Self-Driving Shuttle Enters Volume Production
[Tech]
2018/07/09 11:12
Almost ready to roll: Built by King Long and powered by Baidu's Apollo autonomous platform, the first stop for the Apolong self-driving mini bus will be Chinese cities, before heading to Japan and beyond.Baidu, Google's rival search engine in China, has announced that the hundredth Apolong self-driving mini bus has just rolled off the production line, making it the first fully autonomous electr...
27% of Apparel Sales are Now Online
[Business]
2018/07/09 11:12
Online apparel sales accounted for 27.4% of overall U.S. apparel sales last year, up from 23.5% in 2016 and 20.7% in 2015, according to the most recent Internet Retailer Online Apparel Report published last week.Apparel retailers dominated Internet Retailer’s 2018 Top 1000 list with 266 (more than any other category) making the list. That doesn’t include mass-merchant giants like Amazon (numb...
Keep The Fizz - SmarterSeal
[Product]
2018/07/09 11:12
Many soda drinkers will argue that it always tastes best from the can! The only problem is, there’s no way to save flip-top canned beverages. Until now, that is! Introducing, SmarterSeal.While it’s ideal for carbonated drinks like coke (by keeping things fizzy up to 58% longer), it’s also an innovative addition to any can beer, juice, and more that keeps your drinks fresh and safe. The simpl...
(PDF) BCG - The Big Leap Toward AI at Scale
[Business]
2018/07/08 10:10
After decades of false starts and unfulfilled expectations, artificial intelligence (AI) has now gone mainstream.Companies are successfully applying AI to a wide variety of current and novel processes, products, and services, and this success comes none too soon; AI is essential for business to address the ballooning complexity brought on by digitization and big data. Visionary executives have...
This Bill Gates-Backed Start-Up Keeps Avocados Ripe - Apeel Sciences
[Investing]
2018/07/08 10:09
Apeel Sciences, whose VC backers include Andreessen Horowitz and Bill Gates, has patented an all-natural, virtually invisible coating that fortifies the peel of fruits and veggies to keep them fresher and can double their shelf life.As a PhD candidate in materials science at UC Santa Barbara, James Rogers used to think a lot about food waste. But when he told his mom he wanted to apply his trai...
(PDF) MIT - You May be able to Monitor Your Stomach from Your Smartphone
[Tech]
2018/07/08 10:08
Researchers have figured out a new way to power and get data from tiny sensors embedded in pig organs, which could lead to smarter time-release medicines or simply better ways of keeping an eye on your health.The work: MIT and Harvard researchers say they’re using radio waves to remotely juice up and send data to and from sensors buried deep in the body. The initial research looks into simple...
