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(Patent) Microsoft Patent - Content Aware Automatic Background Blurring
[Tech]
2021/04/04 09:09
Microsoft Teams offers a reliable video conferencing solution for organizations that are already familiar with the Microsoft suite of tools. Some of the recent features include Cortana search, swappable backgrounds, chat, participant reassignment (breakout sessions), meeting policies, low bandwidth mode, etc.A quick search revealed that Microsoft holds over 250 patent families and 400 active wo...
Men’s Health Startup Manual Raises $30M Series A from US and European Investors
[Investing]
2021/04/04 09:08
Men’s health and well-being startup Manual has raised a $30 million Series A round from U.S.-based Sonoma Brands and Waldencast, and Manual’s existing European investors Felix Capital and Cherry Ventures. FJ Labs and the GISEV Family Office also participated in the round. The cash will be used for product development and international expansion. Manual provides diagnostics, treatments and ong...
Apple is The Top Acquirer of AI Companies, Says GlobalData
[Investing]
2021/04/04 09:07
US tech giants are leading the AI companies acquisition race. Four FAAMG companies feature in the list of top five acquirers of AI companies, with Apple leading the race.The mergers and acquisition (M&A) deal-making landscape of the 2016-2020 artificial intelligence (AI) tech space was dominated by US tech giants, according to the deals database by GlobalData. Four of the top five acquirers...
Baseball Cards Go Crypto as Auction Houses Warm to New Currency
[Business]
2021/04/04 09:06
Goldin Auctions, the trading card and memorabilia auction house, is the latest to hop on the crypto bandwagon.[A Jackie Robinson rookie card from 1949 is currently up for auction.Source: Goldin Auctions]On Tuesday, the sports memorabilia auction house Goldin Auctions announced that it would accept cryptocurrency, making it one of the first traditional auction houses to follow the runaway succes...
Vaccine and Health Passports in the World
[Business]
2021/04/04 09:05
Traveling freely like we used to do in pre-pandemic times is still a long way off. Here's a list of vaccine and health passports currently under consideration.Vaccine passports: Can they save travel? Should they? Fairness vies with economics as governments weigh the risks of opening.The launch of China's International Travel Health Certificate on March 8 was music to the ears of frequent travel...
A Window-like Lighting Fixtures Create Playful Geometric Light - Māyā
[Design]
2021/04/04 09:04
There are some architects whose work transcends their medium and pours into in-between spaces of the design world. Tadao Ando and Luis Barragán, for instance, might be aptly known for their artful geometric structures formed primarily from plastered concrete, but they’re perhaps better known for the ways they use light to dance and interact with the angles and surfaces formed from those concr...
(Infographic) HBS - Most Professionals Have Excelled While Working from Home
[Consumer]
2021/04/04 09:03
As the COVID-19 pandemic sent millions of Americans home this time last year, many professionals struggled to navigate work and household responsibilities. But a recent survey from Harvard Business School Online shows that working online did work. In fact, many professionals even experienced advancement and growth—both on the job and at home—this year.“The past year has been difficult for ev...
(Patent) Apple MacBooks Could Get a Nifty Trick to Keep Them Cooler
[Tech]
2021/04/01 09:10
Patent describes an extendable stand (or feet) to lift the laptop and allow better cooling. Future MacBooks could potentially use a system of deployable feet (or a stand) to raise up the laptop when it’s on a surface, allowing for improved cooling underneath, theoretically perhaps enabling the device to use slightly less bulky cooling components inside (and therefore potentially stay slimmer)...
(PDF) Mckinsey - When will the COVID-19 Pandemic End ?
[Consumer]
2021/04/01 09:09
The fall in COVID-19 cases across much of the world over the past ten weeks signals a new dawn in the fight against the disease. Vaccines are proving effective and rapidly scaling, bending the curve in many geographies. This is a fragile dawn, however, with transmission and deaths still high, unequal access to vaccines, and variants of concern threatening to undo progress to date.The trajectory...
