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Nvidia Announces New Chips Designed for Mining Ethereum as the Cryptocurrency Hits Record Highs
[Business]
2021/02/23 09:06
Nvidia announced on Thursday that it will release a new series of semiconductors specifically for mining ether, a cryptocurrency. The new type of chip is called a CMP, or Cryptocurrency Mining Processor. Ether hit a record high on Thursday, up over 160% year-to-date.Nvidia on Thursday announced it will release a new series of semiconductors specifically for mining ether, the second-largest digi...
(Video) 'Zero 2 Infinity' Will Send Tourists To Space On Helium Balloons
[Tech]
2021/02/23 09:05
A Spanish company, Zero 2 Infinity, is offering tourists trips to the threshold of space to view Earth from above, all from the comfort of a small capsule, Bloon. Up to four passengers will be able to see our blue planet from up above throughout the five-hour journey, hanging out at a maximum altitude of 25 miles (40km) above ground. To give some perspective, commercial flights fly approximatel...
Towering Chinese Smart RV Features Elevator to Second-Floor Sunroom
[Product]
2021/02/23 09:04
Enjoy more space and better views with the high-rising SAIC Maxus V90 Life Home Villa Edition.A very different style of Asian RV to the tiny Japanese and Korean mini-campers that inspire endless wanderlust, the SAIC Maxus Life Home V90 Villa Edition lives considerably larger. That's thanks to a pair of slide-outs widening the first floor and a pop-up, full-height glass-encased second story serv...
Samaritan Designs Coats That Double As Sleeping Bags to Help the Homeless
[Design]
2021/02/23 09:04
The non-profit organization has created 90 jobs for the homeless and distributed 50,000 coats to keep those in need warm.Hours going by while looking for a hot meal, a place to sit without being judged and told to leave, and longing for a warm place to sleep: On a single night in January 2019, 17 out of every 10,000 people in the U.S. were experiencing some sort of this somewhat inescapable nig...
(Paper) Apple Files a Patent for Controlling Electronic Devices Using Gaze Information
[Tech]
2021/02/22 09:10
U.S. patent application, US20210048883, discloses a method for controlling an electronic device using a user’s gaze information. The method includes activating a digital assistant if the user’s gaze information satisfies activation criteria, receiving an audio request to perform a command and transmitting an instruction to an external device. The figure below depicts the method of controlling...
(PDF) Bain - Global M&A Report 2021
[Investing]
2021/02/22 09:09
As the world locked down and masked up, M&A endured.As the world locked down and masked up, M&A endured. Bain's third annual Global M&A Report details how companies are using mergers and acquisitions to grow. Download PDF Report : https://bit.ly/3dvelSw[bain]
(Video) Panasonic NICOBO by is a Cat-like Robot That Can Fart
[Product]
2021/02/22 09:08
NICOBO by panasonic is a cat-like robot that can fartimages by panasonic.Through a crowdfunding campaign that reached its goal in just six hours, panasonic unveiled NICOBO — a companion robot that farts. developed as a housemate, the pet-like sock robot wants to make people happy through gentle gestures like waving its tail, babbling baby words, and sometimes releasing excess air trapped insid...
What Luxury’s Next Big Market Wants
[Business]
2021/02/22 09:07
In 2019, the overall spending of consumers from tier-3 cities and below represented 44 percent of China’s total luxury sales.Around 45 percent of middle-class consumers in tier-2 and tier-3 cities in China are interested in purchasing luxury goods versus 37 percent in tier-1 cities.Luxury brands hate trimming their prices, but incentive marketing is a reasonable strategy for lower-tier cities....
(Paper) Physicists Create Microchip 100 Times Faster Than Conventional Ones
[Tech]
2021/02/22 09:06
Researchers created deliberate kinks into graphene to make a nanomaterial act like a transistor.Using graphene and other 2D materials to create the world's smallest microchips, in a method called "nano-origami," can speed up computers. Physicists from the University of Sussex in the U.K. made the first-time discovery."Nano-origami" is a form that is made by crinkling, or creaking kinks, in nano...
