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A Smart Ring That Wants to Replace Your Credit Cards and Car Keys - Token Ring
[Product]
2017/08/13 10:08
Token, a ring device to live securely in a digital world. Made of sterling silver, this ring can be used for different applications, for card holders, this ring can be a personalized lifestyle accessory while having contactless, simple, and safe transactions at millions of merchants in 96 countries around the world. User can add their MasterCard or Visa information and pay token at more than 15...
AI Startups Take The Money And Run As Big Tech Comes Acquiring
[Investing]
2017/08/13 10:07
If you haven’t heard, artificial intelligence (AI) startups are sort of a big deal.It’s a tech category that has left the halls of academia in favor of entrepreneurs’ innovative embrace. In turn, those entrepreneurs are holding their hands out to investors who have shown an increasing willingness to invest. Whether the current cohort of AI startups find market traction, and, eventually, the...
JBL Launches Noise-Cancelling Headphone Campaign Via Cheil Hong Kong
[Business]
2017/08/13 10:06
BL has released a print campaign created by Cheil Hong Kong called ‘Block out the chaos’ to communicate the auditory benefit of its noise-cancelling headphones in a dramatic way, both instantly and effortlessly. According to a release:“From crying babies and barking dogs to screaming wives and daughters, these striking compositions conveyed the tension of extreme chaos. The intolerable noise...
Gold's Chart Has 'One of The Most Bullish' Patterns Around
[Investing]
2017/08/13 10:05
Gold has been gaining steam over the last couple of days following news that North Korea could make nuclear warheads small enough to fit on missiles and the intense rhetoric that followed between President Donald Trump and North Korea's army. The precious metal has rallied almost 3% since the news broke on Tuesday morning and is now trading at its best level in more than two months.And there ma...
BBC Experiments with Voiceprints - BBC iPlayer
[Tech]
2017/08/13 10:04
BBC’s Streaming Service Can Use The Viewer’s Voice As A Remote.The BBC has worked with Microsoft to build an experimental version of BBC iPlayer that uses artificial intelligence to allow individuals to sign in to BBC services using their unique voiceprint and to talk to their TV to select what they want to watch.Whether it is David Hasselhoff talking to his car in Knight Rider or Iron Man ta...
(Infographic) What Americans Know About Foreign Food
[Consumer]
2017/08/13 10:03
Survey of American Stereotypes About Foreign Food.Many cultures are broadly stereotyped when it comes to the food they eat… or the food we think they eat… or the food we eat that’s supposed to represent the food they eat. In any case, there’s a lot of confusion! To sort this all out and find out who knows what, we asked 1,000 Americans to tell us what food they associate with 25 different c...
(PDF) BCG - Digital-Era Change Runs on People Power
[Business]
2017/08/10 10:39
The only constant is change. It’s an old saying with new meaning for companies that are remaking their operations to address digital forces and other trends shaping work and the workplace, including the need for purpose, speed, inclusiveness, and transformative behavior change. Instead of viewing change management as a one-time proposition—a project to be accomplished in a month or a year—th...
(Video) The World’s First Brain-Computer Interface for Virtual Reality - Neurable
[Tech]
2017/08/10 10:39
Neurable is set to usher in the age of hands-free, brain-controlled VR gaming.VR technology has been accelerating rapidly in recent years, but there are still questions surrounding the most effective ways for us to interact with virtual spaces. We have recently seen a variety of weird controllers, boots, chairs and hover boards, while the next step in hand and body tracking technology seems to...
(Infographic) VC Investment in US Agtech Keeps Growing
[Investing]
2017/08/10 10:39
The agtech industry is booming. Capital invested in agtech startups in the US is set to total more than $1 billion this year, up from $832 million in 2016 and by far the biggest number since the beginning of the decade. There are a number of reasons for rising venture capital interest in agtech. For one thing, farmers need to produce enough food to feed the growing population—and traditional f...
