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Lola, A Travel Concierge Startup, Closes Its $19.7M Series A
[Investing]
2016/04/06 10:42
The Boston-based company will launch a mobile app that aspires to be an on-demand personal travel service that can plan, book, and manage travel for consumers.Its founder Paul English (the co-founder and former CTO of Kayak) has brought on board many industry insiders as advisors and team members. Today the startup said that Barney Harford, who departed as CEO of Orbitz Worldwide after its acqu...
Sustainable Material From Pineapples Turns Waste Product Into Leather - Piñatex
[Tech]
2016/04/06 10:41
A textile creates a new industry for pineapple-growing countries and farmers.Population growth brings a lot questions with it. One of them is how to source the fiber used to make clothing. The key here is to focus on reusing natural byproducts since existing textiles will not be able to satisfy the increasing demand in quality and quantity. With this in mind, founder of Ananas Anam Dr. Carmen H...
Waterception - The Oasis
[Design]
2016/04/06 10:41
It may sound a little strange and redundant, but swimmers get dehydrated, and constantly need fluid intake. Obviously chlorinated water, even though it seems logical, isn’t the healthy solution. The Oasis, with its rather poetic name, is a drinking water fountain that allows swimmers to stay hydrated while doing their laps.Designed with a very organic form, almost looking like a stingray in th...
(PDF) Digital Disrpution : How FinTech is Forcing Banking to a Tipping Point
[Business]
2016/04/05 10:57
Banks are quickly approaching their "automation tipping point," and they could soon reduce headcount by as much as 30%. That's according to a new Citi Global Perspectives & Solutions (GPS) report on how financial technology is disrupting banks."Banks' Uber moment will mean a disintermediation of bank branches rather than the banks themselves," the report said."Specifically, it will mean the...
Wine Tech Upstart Drops Smart Bottle on a $300 Billion Industry - Kuvée
[Product]
2016/04/05 10:57
A $199 metal canister with Wi-Fi seeks to end the "ritual of the cork." Kuvée: The Smart Bottle That Keeps Wine Fresh for 30 DaysFor wine, the hangover can start as soon as the bottle is opened. Oxygen is toxic to the lovely, inebriating juice, which as every moment passes becomes something other than intended (letting it ''breathe'' notwithstanding). On any given night, having to choose betwe...
Tesla's Model 3 Pre-Orders in Perspective
[Product]
2016/04/05 10:57
When Tesla revealed the latest addition to its electric vehicle lineup, the Model 3, last week in Hawthorne, California, it did so with a swagger that many found reminiscent of Apple in its heyday. Priced at $35,000 for the base model, the Model 3 delivers at least 215 miles of range and will go from 0-60 mph in less than six seconds. It comes equipped with Tesla’s autopilot hardware, a 15-inc...
Million-Dollar Babies
[Business]
2016/04/05 10:57
As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars.THAT a computer program can repeatedly beat the world champion at Go, a complex board game, is a coup for the fast-moving field of artificial intelligence (AI). Another high-stakes game, however, is taking place behind the scenes, as firms compete to hire the smartest AI experts. Technology giants, including Go...
(M&A) Salesforce Buys Hot Deep Learning Startup MetaMind
[Investing]
2016/04/05 10:56
Salesforce has acquired MetaMind, a deep learning startup backed by Salesforce cofounder and chief executive Marc Benioff. The startup’s services will stop working on May 4. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.“Salesforce plans to integrate MetaMind’s technology into Salesforce services,” MetaMind cofounder and chief executive Richard Socher wrote in a blog post. “For unpaid web users, Me...
(Video) MIT - Wireless Tech Means Safer Drones, Smarter Homes and Password-Free WiFi
[Tech]
2016/04/05 10:56
System from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab enables single WiFi access point that can locate users within tens of centimeters.We’ve all been there, impatiently twiddling our thumbs while trying to locate a WiFi signal. But what if, instead, the WiFi could locate us? According to researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), it co...
