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(Video) Drone Racing League Raises a $20M Series B Ahead of its 2nd Season
[Investing]
2017/06/14 10:22
Drone Racing League has closed on $20M in Series B funding, led by U.K telecommunications company Sky, Liberty Media Corporation (which owns the Formula 1 racing brand) and Lux Capital. This new funding means that the league has now raised over $32M in three rounds. Allianz (who is also the title sponsor of DRL) and World Wrestling Entertainment also joined the round as new investors in the st...
AI-Powered App Helps Users Find Confidence with Public Speaking - Orai
[Tech]
2017/06/14 10:21
Startup company Orai hopes its app will teach users techniques that can lead to successful public speaking in different situations. Philadelphia-based startup Orai has launched its app that strives to educate users about how to be a successful and confident public speaker. Users can record themselves speaking, and the app uses artificial intelligence to analyze the speech clarity, energy and p...
Portable Audio In 360° - ORION360 Speaker
[Product]
2017/06/14 10:21
The donut shape of the ORION360 speaker isn’t only adorable, it’s also highly functional, providing 360 degrees of high definition audio you can take anywhere! Free of any buttons or confusing controls, the ring also serves as a gestural interface where users can swipe to skip, draw a circle to adjust volume, or hover to play/pause… just incorporate gestures into your dance moves! Unlike man...
(Video) Wheelys' Moby-Store is The Self-Driving Drive-Thru That Comes to You
[Design]
2017/06/14 10:03
Anyone who suffers from the midnight munchies will be all too familiar with the need to satisfy their hunger pangs without leaving the house, and preferably without having to talk to anyone in the process. It’s a predicament suffered by many, and one wheelys set out to solve with a bit of AI and the all famous cloud. Never ones to follow the crowd, the forward-thinking team has developed the m...
(Infographic) Fonts & Colors That Drive the World’s Top Brands
[Design]
2017/06/14 10:02
We took a look at the world’s top 100 brands to determine which fonts, colors and formats were the most popular choices. Our infographic provides some good food for thought if you’ve hit a road block on your latest logo design. We based our research on the latest Forbes list of the world’s most powerful brands. Since brands frequently change or update their logos, our study reflects only the...
(Video) Gatorade’s Extremely Cool ‘Water Athlete’ Ad Was Filmed Completely Without CG
[Business]
2017/06/13 10:46
Gatorade’s Extremely Cool ‘Water Athlete’ Ad Was Filmed Completely Without CGI.Liquid printers aren’t anything new, but a moving athlete made out of water that actually runs and kicks is definitely something you don’t see every day.In its new ‘Water Made Active’ ad for G Active, Gatorade pushes the boundaries by creating a stop-motion athlete using drops of water, precision-timed strobe...
(Infographic) The Top 100 Companies: Revenue vs. Profit
[Investing]
2017/06/13 10:45
Just over a month ago, we published a very tidy data visualization that summed up the top 50 companies in the world by revenue, based on data from Forbes.[click to enlarge]But, just looking at revenue numbers doesn’t give a full picture on how these companies compare – and many investors care much more about a different performance metric: profit.Thankfully, today’s data visualization from I...
(Video) Walmart is Testing a Giant Self-Serve Kiosk for Groceries
[Business]
2017/06/13 10:45
Walmart opened a center where people can order their groceries and have them picked up at any time of day or night with just the entering of a simple code.Walmart knows that there’s nothing worse than having to stand in line to buy groceries when you have a ton of other chores to do. As such, it is testing out a giant self-service pick-up center to allow customers to pick out and pay for groce...
Growth in Mobile News Use Driven by Older Adults
[Consumer]
2017/06/13 10:45
Mobile devices have rapidly become one of the most common ways for Americans to get news, and the sharpest growth in the past year has been among Americans ages 50 and older, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March.More than eight-in-ten U.S. adults now get news on a mobile device (85%), compared with 72% just a year ago and slightly more than half in 2013 (54%). And the re...
