Nike and footwear design technology go hand-in-hand, they’ve proven it in the past and now there’s yet another example of their prowess. These are the Go FlyEase hand-free shoes that bring the convenience of wearing and taking off your pair without even bending over or touching them ever. People who already do this with a pair of shoes with laces (when they are too tired or lazy) to take them...

Ark Investment Management outgunned established Wall Street titans BlackRock and State Street last month, as the asset manager founded by a longstanding Tesla bull reaped the rewards of its bets on disruptive tech companies.In a fevered market that is drawing comparisons with the internet boom of the late 1990s, Ark’s actively managed exchange traded funds have attracted $8.2bn this year, outs...

U.S. patent application, US20210027479, describes a method for receiving a visible light image and a thermal image for a frame of a scene. The method includes detecting image discrepancies between the visible light and thermal image and identifying locations in the scene associated with transparent objects. The figures below illustrate generating a point cloud and surface mesh of the image to i...

2020 has been branded with an assortment of labels and titles, but from a media perspective, it was a truly transitional year for streaming video. With dramatic impacts to traditional staples like live sports, and an anxiety-inducing hyper news cycle alternating between COVID updates and political divisiveness, streaming video provided a much needed escape. While the massive spikes in media usa...

Scientists explored the potential of their newly made T-Paper by producing a prototype circular speaker dubbed T-RingJacob Müller.Scientists at Germany’s Chemnitz University of Technology have spent years developing compact and discreet speakers that are quite literally paper thin, and the latest breakthrough improves on this technology for a more immersive experience. The scientists have com...

The United States still holds a substantial overall lead in AI, but China has continued to reduce the gap in some important areas and the EU continues to fall behind.The nations that lead in the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) will shape the future of the technology and significantly improve their economic competitiveness, while those that fall behind risk losing competitive...

Koreans bought a net $5 billion of foreign shares in January. Koreans are ‘highly exposed’ to U.S. market risks: Goldman.South Korean traders piled into U.S. stocks like GameStop Corp. and Tesla Inc. in January, driving their buying of overseas equities to a record high in January.Korean individual and institutional investors bought a net $5 billion of foreign stocks in January, their most-ev...

Alma’s platform enables providers to accept insurance. It also provides a member directory, client-matching service, scheduling and billing functions, as well as education, training and a community for support, he said. In addition, Alma works with the insurance companies on behalf of the providers, which reduces session costs down to an average of $18.“The toll of mental health has never bee...

Eight trends are shaping the sporting goods industry in 2021. To win in the next normal, players must adapt to a shifting landscape.In 2020, the sporting goods industry contracted for the first time since the financial crisis of 2007–08. Most brands, retailers, and manufacturers finished the year significantly in the red, despite a bounce back in activity after the first and before the second...