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(Video) Painted Optical Illusion Road Blocks Trick Drivers Into Slowing Down in India
[Design]
2016/11/14 10:51
Speed bumps and zebra crossings aim to slow down road traffic, but that doesn’t mean every driver obeys those kinds of road warnings. That’s why the city of Ahmedabad, India took painted road instructions a step further, and created optical illusions that look like three-dimensional road blocks when approached from the right angle.A highway management company in Ahmedabad commissioned local a...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Changing Market for Food Delivery
[Business]
2016/11/13 11:10
Online food-delivery platforms are expanding choice and convenience, allowing customers to order from a wide array of restaurants with a single tap of their mobile phone.The business of delivering restaurant meals to the home is undergoing rapid change as new online platforms race to capture markets and customers across the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Although these new Interne...
Here's One Issue Where Apple and Donald Trump See Eye-to-Eye : Repatriation
[Business]
2016/11/13 11:09
Donald Trump is the President-elect, and the tech world is still figuring out how to react. After the vast majority of Silicon Valley stood in opposition to Trump’s policies and divisive rhetoric — which, among other things, called on Apple to make its phones in the US and said Amazon “has a huge antitrust problem” — many of those companies’ stocks are now taking a beating.However, for al...
(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...
