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Investing in Bitcoin: Survey & Report
[Consumer]
2017/11/16 10:57
The price of Bitcoin has risen dramatically since the start of the year. The virtual currency now trades at $9,349 (as of 11/26), up from $997 at the start of 2017. While the price of Bitcoin is slightly off its high of $9,478, there have been no signs of slowing media coverage, headlines, or new investor demand.In September, LendEDU asked 1,000 Americans a series of questions about Bitcoin as...
(Video) AI Startup Embodied Intelligence Wants Robots to Learn From Humans in Virtual Reality
[Tech]
2017/11/16 10:57
Embodied Intelligence wants to use AI and VR to teach robots new skills, like how to manipulate wires, much faster.Depending on who you ask, robotic grasping has been solved for a while now. That is, the act of physically grasping an object, not dropping it, and then doing something useful is a thing that robots are comfortable with. The difficult part is deciding what to grasp and how to grasp...
(Video) This Handheld 3D Body Scanning Device Could Replace the MRI
[Tech]
2017/11/16 10:57
Why can't handheld ultrasound devices come with the same motion-sensing technology inside a video game controller? Using the motion-sensing technology from a Nintendo Wii.- ER doctors and engineers have harnessed the motion-sensing technology in Nintendo Wii controllers to build a new kind of 3D body scanner.- It's not as precise as the technology in an MRI machine or a CT scan, but it's much q...
Bossa Nova Raises $17.5M for Retail Robots That Monitor Inventory
[Investing]
2017/11/16 10:56
Bossa Nova, a company that builds robots to track inventory on store shelves, announced today that it has raised a $17.5 million round of series B funding.Paxion Capital Partners led the round, which included participation from Intel Capital, WRV Capital, Lucas Venture Group, and Cota Capital.The company’s robots are designed to autonomously navigate a store and take stock of what’s on the sh...
3D-Printing 'Five Farming Bridges' to Regenerate War-Torn Mosul
[Design]
2017/11/16 10:56
Vincent callebaut has presented his winning project for the rifat chadirji prize, a competition that called for ideas to rebuild iraq’s liberated areas in mosul. titled ‘five farming bridges’. The concept puts forward the construction of affordable and adaptable bridges topped with modular housing units. the inhabited bridges are seen as a strategy to rebuild a new city over the ruins of the...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Making it in America : Revitalizing US Manufacturing
[Business]
2017/11/15 10:43
The erosion of US manufacturing isn’t a foregone conclusion. The decade ahead—with increased demand, new technology, and value chain optimization—will give the sector a chance to turn around.US manufacturing is not what it was a generation ago. Its contraction has been felt by firms, suppliers, workers, and entire communities. In fact, the erosion of manufacturing has contributed two-thirds...
Ethereum.com Domain Name Can Be Yours for About $10 Million
[Investing]
2017/11/15 10:43
Crypto, marijuana themed website names are most in demand. Euphoria similar to dotcom era, trade publication editor says.Want to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon but afraid it’s become too much of a bubble? Check out the internet site domain name market, where speculation may be just as rampant.Ethereum.com is listed for sale on a marketplace called Uniregistry Market for about $10 million...
The FDA Has Approved The First Digital Pill - Abilify MyCite
[Product]
2017/11/15 10:43
First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical ‘Big Brother’.The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first digital pill for the US which tracks if patients have taken their medication. The pill called Abilify MyCite, is fitted with a tiny ingestible sensor that communicates with a patch worn by the patient — the patch then transmits medication data to a smartphone app whic...
100 Years of America's Top 10 Companies
[Investing]
2017/11/15 10:34
Today’s visualization comes from HowMuch.net, and it uses Forbes data to show how the list of the top 10 companies in the U.S. has evolved over the last 100 years.1917: The Industrialist EraIn 1911, both John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil and J.P. Morgan’s U.S. Steel (which was formed from Andrew Carnegie’s steel company and others) were facing antitrust action.Standard Oil, which controlle...
