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(Video) TeleVet Provides Boost To Veterinary Telemedicine With $5M Series A
[Investing]
2020/06/16 09:06
While telemedicine is becoming a “new normal” for humans, TeleVet has been helping four-legged friends and their owners talk to veterinarians virtually for the past five years.Enabling it to take its mobile telemedicine application to the next level, the Austin-based company closed a $5 million Series A round of funding Thursday, led by existing investor Mercury Fund, with additional investme...
Chargers Are the Final Roadblock to America’s Electric Car Future
[Business]
2020/06/16 09:05
As long as there aren’t enough fast plugs in enough places, buyers and big automakers will stay away.Rods and waders were already packed into the electric Jaguar I-Pace as it gorged a few more electrons from the wall of my New Jersey garage. A quick glance at a map of northeastern Pennsylvania revealed charging stations clinging to the Delaware River like so many spots on the brown trout I was...
Futuristic Vectalia STREAT Bus Concept
[Design]
2020/06/16 09:04
The concept of an autonomous bus was developed in cooperation with and for the mobile service provider “Vectalia”. The primary objective was to create a unique design language and to adapt it to the requirements in terms of safety, space and additional functions.The inspiration for the design of the STREAT bus comes from a carriage. Andreas Grasmück, the designer, wanted to create a feeling...
(Infographic) The New Normal - Trusting Remote Workers
[Consumer]
2020/06/16 09:03
Americans are ready for the future of work. Online Psychology Degrees explains how far trust can take employers in business. How important is morale to your firm?Infographic : https://infographicjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/psychology-trusting-remote-workers.jpg[infographicjournal]
(Paper) Nvidia AI - Training Generative Adversarial Networks with Limited Data
[Tech]
2020/06/15 09:10
Training generative adversarial networks (GAN) using too little data typically leads to discriminator overfitting, causing training to diverge.We propose an adaptive discriminator augmentation mechanism that significantly stabilizes training in limited data regimes. The approach does not require changes to loss functions or network architectures, and is applicable both when training from scratc...
(Video) 'Walkcar' is a Portable Vehicle You can Carry Around Like a Laptop
[Product]
2020/06/15 09:09
On june 9, japanese company cocoa motors launched ‘walkcar’ (previous coverage here), a portable vehicle you can carry around like a laptop. The 2.9 kg (6.4 pounds) vehicle, which has the same size as a 13-inch laptop, offers a new lifestyle choice that is not dependent on any transportation network. thanks to its small size, users can alternate easily between riding ‘walkcar’ and walking,...
(PDF) BCG - Reduce IT Cost, Not Talent, at a Time of Disruption
[Business]
2020/06/15 09:08
Imagine that you are a Chief Information Officer or an IT functional leader in a major enterprise. The COVID-19 global shutdown has given you a choice. You can cut costs across the board as best you can, or you can seize the day, and take the opportunity to make a step-change advance in the way you organize your IT workforce. This can help you reduce costs while strengthening your company’s di...
Fraunhofer : A Smarter Way of Building with Mobile Robots - Husky A200
[Tech]
2020/06/15 09:07
Engineers at the Fraunhofer Italia Innovation Engineering Center (IEC) in Bolzano, Italy, are developing software that would enable a robot assistant to help on construction sites. Based on the Husky A200 research platform, the mobile robot uses new navigational software to carry out autonomous logistics tasks.Robots are already moving into our homes and soon they may be helping to build them a...
Rice Prices Spike to Highest Level Since 2011
[Investing]
2020/06/15 09:06
Surging demand from coronavirus lockdowns and global weather issues have dented rice availability.Rice futures spiked to their highest level in nearly nine years after the global pandemic boosted shoppers’ demand for the grain.One measure of prices has soared 47% in the last two weeks to touch its highest level since November 2011, making rice one of the fastest-climbing major commodities in t...
