TREND REPORTS
(Video) The Car Windshield Is Turning Into a Computer Screen
[Tech]
2015/01/25 11:09
Cars are running out of screens. The dashboard is a jumble of numbers, icons, indicator lights, and gauges. In some vehicles, the display built into the center console is bigger than our televisions in certain rooms at home. But drivers' and passengers' appetite for more information isn't subsiding, so the dashboard and entertainment console are about to get a companion: the windshield.At the D...
2014's 10 Biggest VC Deals Were Worth Nearly $50 Billion
[Investing]
2015/01/25 11:08
In 2014, venture capital funding in the United States hit its highest mark since 2001. Even though deal growth was a modest 8 percent higher than in 2013, investment skyrocketed 62 percent. $47.3 billion was invested in 3,617 deals with the tech sector accounting for three out of every four of them. Unsurprisingly, Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp was the largest venture-backed exit last year...
MIT's Planning Algorithms are Like Siri, Except Creative and Helpful
[Tech]
2015/01/25 11:07
Software that knows the risks - Planning algorithms evaluate probability of success, suggest low-risk alternatives.Imagine that you could tell your phone that you want to drive from your house in Boston to a hotel in upstate New York, that you want to stop for lunch at an Applebee’s at about 12:30, and that you don’t want the trip to take more than four hours. Then imagine that your phone tel...
(Video) The Leatherman Tread Bracelet : 25 Tools You Wear on Your Wrist
[Product]
2015/01/25 11:06
Leatherman Announces Iits Tread Multi-tool Bracelet. Leatherman multi-tools can certainly come in handy, but they are one more thing that has to be stuffed in a pocket or hung on a belt. That's where the Leatherman Tread comes in. It's a stainless steel bracelet that incorporates 25 tools within its links. Additionally, because none of those tools are knives, it shouldn't cause problems going t...
Fun Package Delivers Monthly Projects to Get Kids Coding
[Business]
2015/01/25 11:05
Bitsbox is a subscription service that gives kids a choice of fun app projects to create each month.We’ve already seen platforms such as LittleBits and Sharetribe convert complicated programming projects into accessible tasks that can be completed by budding coders of any level. The benefits of this are clearly huge, but two former Google employees are determined to make such shortcuts obsolet...
New Nicotine Vaccine May Succeed at Treating Smoking Addiction
[Tech]
2015/01/25 11:04
A vaccine currently in development may be more effective at keeping nicotine molecules from acting on the brain.If you're a smoker who's trying to quit, you may recall hearing about vaccines designed to cause the body's immune system to treat nicotine like a foreign invader, producing antibodies that trap and remove it before it's able to reach receptors in the brain. It's a fascinating idea, b...
Cabinet - Lifestyle Customized Storage Device
[Design]
2015/01/25 11:03
Check out their compact ‘library book style’. Sweet!If you are as clumsy as me, then your USB Sticks, SD Cards and Memory drives are all placed in an organized pile of chaos at the back of your drawer. Given the varied sizes, the point of organizing this set of devices in one place is a task. To make it easy, we have here the Cabinet, a modular HDD, USB, and SD CARD storage with integrated de...
(PDF) Baidu Built a Supercomputer for Deep Learning
[Tech]
2015/01/22 11:30
Chinese search engine company Baidu says it has built the world’s most-accurate computer vision system, dubbed Deep Image, which runs on a supercomputer optimized for deep learning algorithms. Baidu claims a 5.98 percent error rate on the ImageNet object classification benchmark; a team from Google won the 2014 ImageNet competition with a 6.66 percent error rate.In experiments, humans achieved...
(Video) Microsoft’s New Holographic Nerd Helmet Is Awesome
[Tech]
2015/01/22 11:30
At an event held for the media at its corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens, a face computer that blends holographs into your world using see-through lenses. And it is somewhat remarkable.After the morning’s keynote wrapped, the company guided the accumulated technology press through a series of demos using incomplete hardware and software. The hardware we used w...
