The world’s most popular cryptocurrency is now worth over $2,000 per coin. That’s according to a range of bitcoin exchanges, including Coinbase and Kraken. That valuation puts the total market cap of bitcoin — the total number of coins in circulation — at $32.92 billion.Bitcoin has been on a tear this year, as this chart from Coindesk shows.Bitcoin first broke the $1,000 valuation mark way...

Holograms have fascinated onlookers for over half a century. But the devices for producing these holographic images have been relatively bulky contraptions, forced into their large size in part by the wavelengths of light that are necessary to generate them.Emerging technologies such as plasmonics and metamaterials have offered a way to manipulate light in such a way that these wavelengths can...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai today announced that the company’s speech recognition technology has now achieved a 4.9 percent word error rate. Put another way, Google transcribes every 20th word incorrectly.That’s a big improvement from the 23 percent the company saw in 2013 and the 8 percent it shared two years ago at I/O 2015.The tidbit was revealed at Google’s I/O 2017 developer conference, wh...

Studiomateriality is a design practice founded in 2016 by miltos kontogiannis in athens, greece. the work mostly involves product and interior designs that explore the application of art to objects. ‘Through this process, studiomateriality designs various products such as lighting, mirrors, homeware etc. we are also involved in the field of custom design. we love the challenge of creating besp...

It's actually been a bad year for hedge funds. Looking at this infographic though, the average person would never guess it. The top 25 earning hedge fund managers pulled in a combined 11 billion U.S. dollars in 2016. While this is a massive sum, it is, relatively speaking, disappointing. The lowest figure since 2005's $9.4 billion, 2016 was well below the imperious heights reached three years a...

The tech company has started developing a wearable that helps users eat more nutritious food and avoid things they shouldn't have.Microsoft wants to make it easier for people to track their eating habits with a newly patented wearable. Their augmented reality glasses provide meal recommendations based on the wearer’s nutritional needs and daily consumption.The AR glasses monitor light, sound,...

Winning in today’s guest-first environment starts with a solid restaurant customer experience strategy. Explore five considerations for restaurants as they create memorable guest experiences that yield guest loyalty. A restaurant’s brand is no longer only about food. If it ever was. Now that quality, value, sanitary, location, and staff are table stakes—requirements that every restaurant sho...

Californians, you have the right to feel personally attacked.Results from the annual Harris Poll have been released, giving us a look at which brands are the most highly regarded across all sectors, from air travel to television networks.Burger restaurant is one of the categories covered by the Harris Poll, and Five Guys topped the list this year, upsetting the reigning champion of two years in...

Nike has constructed a pop-up arena track in the middle of Manila that it’s calling the “world’s first LED running track.”The track has a wall of LED screens all the way around that project an “avatar” of your last lap so you can take yourself on in a virtual race.Runners get lap by lap feedback so they can learn to run at a proper pace. It makes exercising look like fun… almost.Watch Vi...