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(Patent) Apple Aims to Patent Devices and Methods for Locating Accessories of an Electronic Device
[Tech]
2020/03/09 09:09
US patent application 20200074822 describes a device that stores parameters associated with an accessory so that the detected parameters are accessible if the accessory becomes lost. The device can assist a user in locating the accessory by providing the stored parameters to the user to aid them in searching for their lost accessory as shown in the figure below.Patent Application : http://bit.l...
Oil Drops 31% in Worst Loss Since Gulf War as Price Fight Erupts
[Investing]
2020/03/09 09:08
Saudi Arabia makes deepest price cuts in at least 20 years. Collapse of OPEC+ alliance triggers crude supply free-for-all.Oil markets crashed more than 30% after the disintegration of the OPEC+ alliance triggered an all-out price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia that is likely to have sweeping political and economic consequences.Brent futures suffered the second-largest decline on record in...
Hailo.ai Raises $60M to Accelerate the Launch of Its AI Edge Chip
[Investing]
2020/03/09 09:07
Hailo, a startup developing hardware designed to speed up AI inferencing at the edge, today announced that it’s raised $60 million in series B funding led by previous and new strategic investors. CEO Orr Danon says the tranche will be used to accelerate the rollout of Hailo’s Hailo-8 chip, which was officially detailed in May 2019 ahead of an early 2020 ship date — a chip that enables device...
Virus Takes Aim at $1.7 Trillion Industry as Tourists Stay Home
[Business]
2020/03/09 09:06
From Macau to the Alps, hotels are emptying as the outbreak spreads.On Lake Como in northern Italy, spring normally spells the return of the tourists. The likes of George Clooney descend on waterfront villas, couples wander the cobbled streets and design fairs fill hotel rooms with well-heeled travelers. This year, because of the coronavirus, hoteliers are wondering whether the visitors will co...
(Video) Unfolding Highway Bridge Unfurls Like an Umbrella
[Tech]
2020/03/09 09:05
For more than 15 years, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wein) have been working on a different approach to bridge-building.An imaginative new approach to bridge-building was demonstrated for the first time in Austria last week, where engineers have connected the opposing sides of two rivers with a novel construction method likened to opening an umbrella. These unfolding b...
Americans Are Hoarding Face Masks
[Consumer]
2020/03/09 09:04
Americans are hoarding health supplies amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 160 Americans and killed at least 11 people. When compared to last February, the sale of health supplies has dramatically increased as Americans prepare for the worst.Sales of medical masks are up by a staggering 319 percent, according to data analyzed by Nielsen Retail Measurement Services....
Special Projects Distills Essential Smartphone Functions Into a Daily Paper Phone
[Design]
2020/03/09 09:03
London design studio Special Projects has developed an app that condenses important information such as contacts and maps onto a daily printout to help people live without their devices.The Paper Phone app lets users select appointments, tickets, to-do lists and other daily essentials from their smartphone and formats them onto a single sheet of A4.This can then be printed out and folded into a...
HBR - What Coronavirus Could Mean for the Global Economy
[Investing]
2020/03/08 09:10
Having largely ignored Covid-19 as it spread across China, global financial markets reacted strongly last week when the virus spread to Europe and the Middle East, stoking fears of a global pandemic. Since then, Covid-19 risks have been priced so aggressively across various asset classes that some fear a recession in the global economy may be a foregone conclusion.In our conversations, business...
(Video) Boston Dynamics and OTTO Handle Demo Future of Warehouse Robotics
[Tech]
2020/03/08 09:09
The demonstration showed the degree to which warehouse automation can go.Boston Dynamics and OTTO Motors have teamed up for a demonstration of the warehouse of the future. In a newly released video, a Boston Dynamics Handle robot rushes about a storage area at speed as it picks boxes and builds pallets atop an OTTO Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) platform.Looking like a robotic version of some hu...
