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(PDF) PwC - 20th CEO Survey : Healthcare Industry Key Findings
[Business]
2017/03/16 10:56
In this year’s Survey, we canvassed the views of 56 Healthcare CEOs from 27 countries about three imperatives: managing man and machine to create a workforce that’s fit for the digital age; preserving organisational trust in a world of increasingly virtual interactions; and making globalisation work for everyone. Globalisation: Underway but under siege?CEOs’ long-held scepticism has been amp...
(Video) Memphis Meats Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab
[Business]
2017/03/16 10:56
A food technology startup in San Francisco has grown a chicken strip from self-reproducing cells in a lab, making it the first to produce this type of lab-grown meat.Memphis Meats, located in the Bay Area, is planning to reveal its creation on Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reports. But ahead of the release, the company invited a few lucky people to taste-test the chicken. Duck meat was als...
Facebook, The World’s Most Addictive Drug
[Business]
2017/03/16 10:55
The most popular social network in the world launched its IPO less than four years ago, today it is worth $325 billion.FACEBOOK has defied even optimists’ projections of how big the 12-year-old firm could one day become. Today the company’s flagship social network claims 1.6 billion users, around a billion of whom log on each day. Facebook has attracted and engaged so many users by engineerin...
IoT Platform Evrythng Raises $24.8M to Help Companies Connect Things to the Web
[Investing]
2017/03/16 10:55
Internet of things (IoT) platform provider Evrythng has raised $24.8 million in a Series B round led by Sway Ventures, with participation from Generation Ventures and Bloc Ventures.Founded out of New York in 2011 and launched in stealth a year later, Evrythng has IoT smarts to help connect consumer products to the internet, serving companies with real-time data on usage. The company had raised...
A Virtual Version of You That Can Visit Many VR Worlds
[Tech]
2017/03/16 10:55
Avatars, long used in video games, are coming to VR. This startup thinks you should be able to use the same one in different places.In the real world, your body is always yours—you might dress differently for a business meeting or a cocktail party, but you’re still the same person underneath the outfit. Now an avatar-making startup thinks the same should be true in virtual reality, too.Virtua...
Over the Last 60 Years, Automation has Totally Eliminated just One US Occupation
[Consumer]
2017/03/16 10:55
Automation often replaces human labor, but very rarely in the last sixty years has it eliminated an entire occupation.Only one of the 270 detailed occupations listed in the 1950 US Census has since been eliminated by automation, according to a working paper by Harvard economist James Bessen. The one exception: elevator operator.While the government has stopped including other occupations on the...
Perk Promises Precise Coffee Brewing for The Masses
[Product]
2017/03/16 10:55
The Perk Brew is aimed at delivering a better brew in the homeFor lots of homes, making a pot of joe is the most important part of every morning. But real snobs, or fans of a certain type of coffee, have always struggled to find the tools to brew the perfect cup at home. A team based out of New Mexico is hoping to change that with Perk Brew.Although its creators say Perk was initially designed...
(Video) Jellyfish Vase By Nendo, 2017 Milan Design Week
[Design]
2017/03/16 10:54
During the upcoming 2017 Milan Design Week, renowned Japanese design studio nendo will unveil a collection of vases that float like jellyfish in the water. 30 vases of various sizes are placed in a 1800 mm aquarium filled with water and the strength and direction of the water’s current is carefully adjusted so that they undulate moderately. The vases are made out of ultrathin transparent silic...
(PDF) Feeds vs.Read Impacts of Scroll Velocity
[Business]
2017/03/15 10:35
Ads in editorial were fully visible for 44 seconds vs. 6 seconds in search and 3 seconds in social.Mobile brand agency Kargo has published a study that argues “premium editorial” digital environments are more effective for brand ads than search or social media. The findings are based on a comparative study of ad visibility and recall.One hundred smartphone owners were exposed to “premium edi...
