This chart shows Apple's revenue, net income, market capitalization and brand value in 2005 and 2015.When Apple reported its fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, the company made history. Over the past 12 month, the Cupertino-based maker of the iPhone recorded a net profit of $53.4 billion, more than any other company in corporate history had made in a single year. The previous record of $45.2 b...

University of Utah Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Rajesh Menon has developed a new camera color filter which could improve low light smartphone photography.The low-light photographic performance of smartphones could soon get a significant boost, thanks to the development of a new type of color filter. Created by an engineer at the University of Utah, the new filter is said to let...

The sonic tractor beam is capable of levitating and manipulating a small polystyrene bead.Last year, researchers at the University of Dundee revealed an acoustic tractor beam that used ultrasonic energy to pull macroscopic objects in. Now researchers in the UK have developed a sonic tractor beam that generates acoustic holograms through the manipulation of high-amplitude sound waves. These acou...

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San Francisco-based fashion label Betabrand, the startup that brings to you the Dress Pant Yoga Pants, announced today that it has closed $15 million in funding from Morgan Stanley and Foundry Group.Betabrand is not your usual clothing brand; the startup crowdsources designs and then jumps into production, creating items like the Best Travel Pants and the Women’s Activewear Casual Blazer.Betab...

Video reports from AOL, Demand Metrics and Web design search engine Crayon all point to a bright future for the video marketing industry.Three new video reports from AOL, Demand Metrics, and the web design search engine Crayon, all confirm what brands, agencies and publishers already know: video continues to be the shining star of marketing content.While AOL’s 2015 U.S. State of the Video Indu...

This is the U.S. Map Of Each State's Favorite Halloween Candy created by Influenster after polling some 40,000 people living in all 50 states. [click to enlarge]"As you can see, people in South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Oregon and Wyoming have clearly lost their minds by naming candy corn as their favorite candy."[likecool]

A new paper, to be presented at next week's IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, details the evolution of the university's Data Science Machine – a sort-of AI system that is adept at spotting trends and patterns in large chunks of data.MIT ran the machine as a ringer in three human data science tournaments and had considerable success. Out of 906 human teams in...

What's a good way to nurture a life-long love of good design and architecture in your kids? Buy them a backyard playhouse inspired by the real-world buildings of Le Corbusier, Toyo Ito, Mies van der Rohe, and more.Since 2009, Barcelonan master architect David Lamolla has been designing garden playhouses for kids, using best architectural practices and some of the world's most beautiful building...