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Artificial Intelligence Helps Improve MRI Imaging of Strokes
[Tech]
2017/06/22 11:09
New technique makes brain scans better - Boosting quality of patient MRIs could enable large-scale studies of stroke outcome.High resolution MRI scans of the brain can take around thirty minutes to perform, but in the case of a stroke this can be much too long to wait. Typically, if MRI is used, a stroke patient is rushed through so that fewer imaging slices are taken, resulting in a much lower...
Futuristic Drone Taxi to Solve Traffic Jam in Big Cities
[Design]
2017/06/22 10:00
Futuristic Drone Taxi, it’s a concept transportation to solve traffic jam in big cities. HoverSurf has a vision that sometime in the future, we might see flying taxis in our sky, that would be a common way to commute. Internally, this drone is equipped with FCS in-flight computers, MARK-S drone platforms, and hybrid FPE generators. The FTS flight management system software comes with two syste...
(PDF) Deloitte - Asset Management M&A : Industry Outlook 2017 and Beyond
[Investing]
2017/06/21 10:10
Deteriorating economics, distributor consolidation, the need for new capabilities, and a shifting value chain are combining to set off an accelerated and different round of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the investment management industry. Strategy consultants at Casey Quirk, a practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP, expect brisk M&A activity to continue in 2017 and beyond. What...
When Robots Will Start Beating Humans at Every Task
[Tech]
2017/06/21 10:09
According to a new study from Oxford and Yale University researchers, those are the years artificial intelligence is slated to take over each of those tasks. And so it will go for millions of other jobs over the next 50 years, researchers find.The study relied on survey responses of 352 AI researchers who gave their opinions on when in the future machines would replace humans for various tasks....
This Magazine Ad for Insecticide Kills Bugs the Old-Fashioned Way
[Business]
2017/06/21 10:08
A pretty fly concept from WMcCann. This ad really hits you over the head with its message, especially if you’re a mosquito.A few months back, to introduce Mat Inset insecticide, WMcCann in Brazil created an insert for select issues of Veja magazine. “Discover two ways to kill insects,” the copy says. “Both are fragrance-free.”Readers were encouraged to remove the insert and wrap it around...
Tobacco’s New Crisis – Rich People Stopped Smoking, The Poor Didn’t
[Consumer]
2017/06/21 10:07
After decades of lawsuits, public campaigns and painful struggles, Americans have finally done what once seemed impossible: Most of the country has quit smoking, saving millions of lives and leading to massive reductions in cancer.That is, unless those Americans are poor, uneducated or live in a rural area.Hidden among the steady declines in recent years is the stark reality that cigarettes are...
Watson Mans The First Cognitive Ad for Cars
[Business]
2017/06/21 10:06
On the IBM-owned Weather.com site, the supercomputer is fielding questions about the Prius Prime like an expert.Watson is adding to his repertoire of cognitive ads today on Weather.com, with the announcement of the first one for the auto industry.Last October, the IBM-owned Weather Company launched the first such cognitive ad on its site, for Campbell Soup. In it, a site visitor could enter a f...
Nestlé leads $77M Round for Healthy Meal Startup Freshly
[Investing]
2017/06/21 10:05
Freshly has raised a big funding round from a big name — the U.S. division of food and beverage giant Nestlé.Co-founder and CEO Michael Wystrach has pitched the startup as a way to get healthy, on-demand meals. That doesn’t mean you order from Freshly every time you want to eat — instead, you get one delivery of all your meals for the week. Then, when you’re hungry, you just heat one of th...
Intelligent Machines Industrial-Robot Firm Kuka Looks to Automate the Home
[Tech]
2017/06/21 10:04
Technology originally developed for the factory might soon help humans with everyday life, too.One of the world’s most successful makers of industrial robots plans to turn its hand to creating automatons that help humans.Last summer, the German robotics firm Kuka—whose bright-orange robots already grace many a factory floor—was acquired by the Chinese household appliance company Midea Group...
