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(Infographic) Why YouTube Stars Are More Influential Than Traditional Celebrities
[Consumer]
2016/11/13 11:08
It is clear that the day of the traditional celebrity is numbered. The YouTube celebrity is gradually becoming more influential. Marketers and others trying to hang on the coat tails of celebrity cannot ignore this. If they do so, they will gradually fade into insignificance. The folks at Influencer Marketing Hub have created the following infographic titled “Why YouTube Stars are More Influen...
(Video) Zipline Raises $25M to Deliver Blood, Vaccines, and Medicines by Automated Drone
[Investing]
2016/11/13 11:07
Drone delivery startup Zipline has closed a $25 million series B round of funding led by Visionnaire Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.Founded out of San Francisco in 2011, Zipline is a robotics company that builds autonomous drones designed to deliver vaccines, medicine, or blood on request from health workers operating in hard-to-reach areas. Just last...
(PDF) HIV Test On a Stick : New Technology Delivers Results in Less Than 30 Minutes
[Tech]
2016/11/13 11:06
No ordinary USB stick: scientists have developed a new technology that can detect HIV virus levels on a microchip.While there is still no cure for HIV, it is no longer the death knell it once was thanks to modern medicine. And now, scientists in the UK have developed a new type of portable HIV test that has the potential to improve millions more lives.Antiretroviral therapy (ART) keeps the HIV...
UN Report Says Robots Threaten Two Thirds of Jobs in Developing Countries
[Tech]
2016/11/13 11:05
The increased use of robots threatens millions of jobs in developing countries, by undermining the advantage of low wages and facilitating the "reshoring" of industries back to industrialized countries, according to a new policy brief from UNCTAD.The Policy Brief - "Robots and industrialization in developing countries" - finds that reshoring is happening slowly and is limited to certain sectors...
RiskIQ Raises $30.5M to Use Machine Learning to Assess Security Risks
[Investing]
2016/11/13 11:04
RiskIQ, a startup with a new kind of security technology, has raised $30.5 million in a third round of funding.Georgian Partners led the round, with participation from existing investors Summit Partners, Battery Ventures, and MassMutual Ventures. RiskIQ notes that threats outside the firewall are vast and dynamic, so the company provides clients with access to the widest range of security intel...
The Harman Kardon Wind Lantern Speaker
[Design]
2016/11/13 11:03
It just seems poetic, that a speaker design be inspired by something that’s a ‘musical instrument’ itself. I say musical instrument in quotes because the instrument in question is a wind-chime, a self-playing autonomous instrument that channels breeze to produce beautiful and soothing random sounds. The Harman Kardon Wind Lantern speaker’s wind chime element lies in the way the remote hangs...
(PDF) Oxford Scientists Have an AI That Can Read Your Lips - LipNet
[Tech]
2016/11/10 10:50
A team of scientists at Oxford University has created a new artificial intelligence system that they call LipNet.They claim that this AI can lip-read better than humans, which is interesting to say the least. LipNet is capable of doing that by watching a video of a person speaking and then it matches the text to the movement of their mouth. The researchers claim that LipNet has a 93 percent acc...
(PDF) Deloitte - 2017 Commercial Real Estate Industry Outlook
[Business]
2016/11/10 10:50
Deploy technology innovatively and effectively to compete in the rapidly changing Commercial Real Estate (CRE) ecosystem. To do this, companies should include five integral themes in their CRE business strategy. CRE owners may believe that smart cities are unlikely to impact the existing built environment, or that the timing is too far out to consider seriously. However, some evolving trends ar...
(Video) Volcom's Beautiful New Swimsuits are Made from Recycled Fishing Nets
[Product]
2016/11/10 10:50
The sporty fashion retailer has made an impressive effort to repurpose ocean waste into swimwear that people will want to buy.Volcom has launched a new line of swimwear made from recycled fishing nets. It is a fascinating and admirable attempt to rescue some of the waste floating in our oceans and put it to good use. “Caught up in a good thing” is the catchy tagline that accompanies the launc...
