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(Infographic) Visualizing The Biggest Economic Bubbles
[Investing]
2018/07/26 09:07
Is Cryptocurrency ‘The Mother of all Bubbles’? This Visualization Puts Things in Perspective. The sheer magnitude of how much money there is in the world can be quite staggering—and hard to understand. What if you could visualize every market in the world as a bubble?Earlier this year the total U.S. stock market cap surpassed $30 trillion. It then lost more than $1 trillion in a single month...
Hinge Using A New Algorithm To Find Your Perfect Partner
[Business]
2018/07/26 09:06
MODERN DATING, OLD ALGORITHM. Not having any luck with online dating? Maybe a decades-old algorithm can help.Hinge — a dating app that claims to be for “people looking for real connections” — rolled out “Most Compatible,” a feature that presents users with Hinge’s daily pick for who they’re most likely to hit it off with.To take some of the guesswork out of finding your perfect match, H...
Your Next Computer Screen Could be Holographic
[Tech]
2018/07/26 09:06
“Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.”If you’ve ever wished you could recreate the iconic scene in Star Wars, where Luke Skywalker discovers a holographic message of Princess Leia, pretty much kicking off the entire franchise, you can now get a lot closer to that dream. Unfortunately, you won’t be using an R2-D2 astromech droid to do so, but rather a new type of display developed b...
(Video) Kano Conjures Up Wand-Packing Kit for Future Coding Wizards
[Product]
2018/07/26 09:04
Student wizards use a block-based interface to create code with the Harry Potter Kano Kit.Teaching our kids to code is vital for our tech-packed present and future, and there are many different tools available to the programming student – from crawling bots to play dough circuits to build-it-yourself kits. Entertaining and educational as such things can be, few can claim to be magical. Now Kan...
Nendo Designs Three Minimal Variations of The Traditionally Ornate Cuckoo Clock
[Design]
2018/07/26 09:03
Nendo reinterprets the traditional cuckoo clock with three different designs including one that rests upside-down on a titlted angle and another that doubles up as a bookend. detailed wooden carvings and hanging pendulums are replaced with simple white faces on light wooden blocks.The cuckoo clocks typical design is a pendulum-regulated clock that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cu...
Crypto Utopia - $20 Billion in Cumulative ICO Funding, 300+ Funds
[Investing]
2018/07/25 11:19
The $20 billion Cambrian explosion of tokenized digital assets, and the emerging infrastructure being built to support them. Over $20 billion has been raised by Crypto projects through Initial Coin Offerings since the start of 2017. That’s $18 billion more than a year ago, when we released our first primer on the space, Token Mania. So what has this Cambrian Explosion brought to financial serv...
Cogito Rises $37Million to Analyze Call Center Data with AI
[Investing]
2018/07/25 11:19
Boston-based call center analytics company Cogito today announced a $37 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Salesforce Ventures, and OpenView. Cogito will use the infusion of capital to improve its software’s customization options and make its user guidance “richer” and “more contextually aware,” cofounder and CEO Joshua Feast said.The startup, which was cofounded by...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Digitizing Customer Journeys - Making a Radical, But Valuable Move in EPNG
[Business]
2018/07/25 11:15
With start-ups and new entrants enhancing customer satisfaction through digital solutions, we believe it is time for incumbents to create seamless digital customer journeys.For services companies, customer-facing processes are the foundation for success in critical metrics—from revenue and costs to customer and employee satisfaction. For energy providers, such as electric-power-and-natural-gas...
Lumen Analyzes Your Metabolism and Helps You Lose Weight
[Product]
2018/07/25 11:14
In just a single breath, Lumen would tell you about your metabolism and offer you daily guidance on how to reach your fitness goal or ideal weight. Lumen is a set of device and app that measures your nutrition through your breath, take the guesswork out of your mind. Using the app, you can get daily personalized meal plans that optimize your workouts. It’s not about whether you have fast or sl...
