The Nanit camera is mounted on a floor stand, and looks down into the infant's crib.While there are already a variety of systems that monitor how your baby sleeps, most of them require you to fasten some sort of wearable to your infant's body. Nanit, however, is different. It's a contactless system that utilizes an overhead camera to observe your little one, using machine learning to teach itse...

Wall Street professionals come from a variety of college degrees and majors, but there is one degree that's more lucrative than any other.Executive MBA and MBA holders earn the most money of all finance professionals, according to Emolument, a salary-benchmarking website that collects self-reported pay data.Emolument gathered data on 840 finance professionals in New York at the analyst, associa...

Mercedes will use this platform to underpin its future electric cars. As alternative powertrains move towards the mainstream, there is increasing pressure to create versatile platforms capable of handling a range of propulsion systems without huge development costs on each individual model. Volvo has SPA, Volkswagen has MQB and now Mercedes has used TecDay in Stuttgart to announce a dedicated p...

On the web you can share content via social media (Facebook, Twitter, et al.) or you can share through channels which aren’t public by design (e-mails, instant messaging). The latter are called dark social media. This sounds sinister, but basically entails private referral traffic that’s harder to track, as it comes back without referral data attached.Retailers and publishers like sharing, be...

Recent months have seen an increase in brands catering to young people’s desire for multipurpose retail environments by offering up their stores as interactive spaces. Activewear brands are opening full-service fitness studios, and auto brands are following suit, putting car showrooms to more inventive use.CADILLAC HOUSEIn a bid to lure customers without the hard sell, Cadillac has launched a...

Asia-Pacific buyers are ahead of their Western competitors in terms of As-a-Service investments and adoption. What do they know that their counterparts don’t?It’s no secret that companies are changing the way they buy and receive services to support their business operations. After all, traditional “lift-and-shift” approaches lost their luster years ago. Today’s executives aren’t simply l...

Apple won a pair of patents relating to advanced mobile devices including a property covering transparent augmented reality devices and IP detailing a mobile electronic device with flexible wrap-around display.Granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple's U.S. Patent No. 9,367,093 for a "Transparent electronic device" is a variation of a augmented reality concept AppleInsider first r...

Survey found that P2P payments were growing faster than in-store mobile payments, driven by Millennials.At Apple’s WWDC yesterday, the company announced that it was extending Apple Pay to the mobile web. This was rumored earlier this year and only quickly mentioned by Apple Senior VP Craig Federighi during his keynote remarks. The expansion of Apple Pay to websites (desktop and mobile) is pote...

In May, Nikola Motors made two big announcements: The first was that it existed, and the second was that it was developing a US $375,000 hybrid electric semi truck called the Nikola One. The company promised that the truck, powered by lithium battery packs and a compressed natural gas generator, would be better than the current generation of semi trucks in every single way. Nikola said it would...