SmartRecruiters is arming itself with a $30 million funding round, led by Insight Venture Partners. This is in addition to the $25 million already raised.Because managing a large pool of job applicants can be cumbersome, SmartRecruiters thinks its software has the right tools to keep you organized in your candidate search. The team counts clients like Square, Atlassian and Equinox gyms, who use...

James Young, a London local, met with an awful accident four years ago, leaving him with an “ugly- peach-colored and obvious” prosthetic arm and leg. But to his fortune he soon turned ‘part cyborg’ in a unique experiment which gave him a prototype bionic arm. This new futuristic-looking arm feels realistic, and is also more funtional in some ways than a real hand. Although I don’t recommen...

Look at the snorkel design and you’ll realize one thing. There’s just one pipe that serves as an inlet as well as outlet. In most situations this wouldn’t be a problem, but in high-performance sports you’d face one nagging problem. A combined inlet-outlet means that there’s always residual air in the tube, and after a few breaths, you end up breathing primarily residual exhaled air. This a...

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Cozmo is a cute little look at what AI can do. There are plenty of toy robots on the market, but they tend to lack a real sense of personality. With scripted responses and set, repeated movements, they can be hard to love. A team of robotics engineers at Anki have attempted to create a truly loveable robot that relies on AI to give it some real personality. Cozmo is a cute little robot capable...

The future’s so bright you’ve got to wear glasses – virtual reality glasses, that is! VR fully immerses you into a 360° digital world, creating an alternate reality experience.Learn more about the future of virtual reality in this infographic from Frames Direct.Infographic : http://infographicjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/virtual-reality-glasses.png[FramesDirect]

I GET TO audition a panoply of speakers on this job, and one of the most striking—both visually and aurally—is Devialet’s Phantom. The French company’s speaker is designed to look like some ovular starseed space egg, with cylindrical drivers firing outwards from both sides as you crank the jams, extending and receding in a blur of sound and motion. It’s also goddamn loud. The base model Ph...

Microsoft research teams are tackling several different challenges involved in accurately translating hand gestures for computer interface systems.Almost every object you encounter day-to-day has been designed to work with the human hand, so it's no wonder so much research is being conducted into tracking hand gestures to create more intuitive computer interfaces, such as Purdue University's De...

Google is reportedly thinking about building its own phone, instead of outsourcing the Nexus phones to manufacturers like LG and Huawei, according to The Telegraph.This chart from Statista shows the problem Google would be trying to solve. Right now, Android is the most popular smartphone platform in the world by far, with more than 80% global market share. But Android handset makers and carrie...