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(PDF) Deloitte - Ahead of The Curve
[Investing]
2018/01/17 11:48
Forward-looking solutions for tomorrow’s leading asset management firms. Shifting buyer behaviors, disruptive technologies, and fiduciary-driven regulations are changing the asset management industry. In order to manage these challenges, leading asset management firms must develop and implement innovative and effective solutions now to stay ahead of the curve.Asset management firms have long b...
(Patent) Amazon Patents Autonomous Air Traffic Control For Drones
[Tech]
2018/01/17 11:48
The technology would use sensors and wireless communication for collision avoidance with UAVs.Amazon has already patented a way for unmanned aerial vehicles to talk to you. Now, the company is looking at tech to allow drones to talk to each other, too.A newly granted patent creates a “universal identification system for UAVs” that would allow drones to transmit “identifying certificates” in...
Inside the Korean Crypto Exchange That Grew So Fast The Government Raided It
[Investing]
2018/01/17 11:47
Korea has gone from an afterthought in the cryptocurrency markets to one of its major hubs in a matter of months. Crypto trading has grown so feverish that the government raided the country’s major exchanges to check their books—and to cool down the red-hot trading activity.The lynchpin in the Korean market is an exchange called Bithumb, which has raked in cash as its customers have swelled i...
(CES 2018) OrCam MyEye 2.0 Helps Patients with Low Vision to Read Text and Recognize Objects
[Product]
2018/01/17 11:47
Israel-based OrCam unveiled its futuristic artificial vision device, OrCam MyEye 2.0, to the public at CES 2018. Designed for people with sight impairments, such as blindness or partial blindness, the device is able to transcribe many things that it’s seeing to the wearer. MyEye 2.0 packs an unbelievable number of features in a little shell that is the size of a small match box that attaches t...
Here’s Where Banks Rank on Blockchain Patents
[Tech]
2018/01/17 11:47
The financial-services industry has a greater share than technology companies.While almost 60 percent of all blockchain-related patents filed in the U.S. belong to blockchain-specific companies, financial services have become more aggressive with a greater share than traditional technology firms. Bank of America Corp. has applied for or received more patents than any other major bank or tech co...
Moving Blood Tests from Labs to the Consumer - rHEALTH
[Business]
2018/01/17 11:46
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based rHEALTH received Europe’s CE mark to test for a blood marker for the bleeding disease hemophilia A using chemistry compatible with its portable device, the company reported today. The approval is rHEALTH’s first regulatory clearance. Imagine a portable device in your home that, with a drop of blood from a finger prick, could tell you instantly your blood cell co...
Games Software/Hardware $165B+ in 2018, $230B+ in 5 Years, Record $2B+ Investment Last Yeard // hide
[Investing]
2018/01/17 11:46
Video games software/hardware combined could be in the $165 billion to $170 billion range this year (if mobile outperforms again), and reach between $230 billion and $235 billion by 2022 if strong performance continues.That might make games software/hardware bigger in 5 years than 150 countries’ individual GDPs today (somewhere between Vietnam and Finland). Games software alone could drive aro...
Double Compact Tea Maker by Aybike Eser
[Design]
2018/01/17 11:41
Double Compact Tea Maker is a concept design submitted by Aybike Eser. Inspired by rising trend of small space homes, she decided to design a compact teapot, enough for up to three people. You can read her own explanations below.Nowadays, 1 + 1 houses are getting popular, people prefer to live in a smaller house. According to this trend, it is aimed to design a teapot that can make tea for up t...
(PDF) Alibaba and Microsoft AI Beat Humans in Stanford Reading Test
[Tech]
2018/01/16 11:18
Top-place tie by tech groups provides symbol of race between US and China.They have beaten us at chess, Go and co-written a Europop album. Now computers are taking a step into a very human territory: the reading comprehension test, scourge of schoolchildren everywhere.Alibaba on Monday said its artificial research outperformed mere mortals in a global reading comprehension test that seeks answe...
