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...

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...

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]

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...

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....

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...

AirSlate, a workflow automation startup, today announced it raised $50 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The capital comes after a $40 million round in January led by Morgan Stanley and General Catalyst, and it brings the company’s total raised to $130 million.When McKinsey surveyed 1,500 executives across industries and regions in 2018, 66% said addressing skills gaps relate...

Many people wear earrings all day, yet they also jam in a pair of earbuds when listening to music. The folks at German startup Nova Products figured, "Why not just combine the two?". Their Nova H1 Audio Earrings are the result.Sold in sets of two, each 7-gram earring has a solid silver body/clip along with a real pearl. Music is transmitted by Bluetooth from a paired smartphone to the H1s, whic...

NYC-based startup Oonepod is launching a Mini version of its bike parking pod. It takes up the space of one car and can secure up to ten bikes at a time.Shabazz Stuart's startup Oonepod is trying to turn New York into a bike-friendlier metropolis by offering bikers a safer space to park their two-wheelers. In addition to the bigger Oonepod parking pod, whose installation is often met with lots...