Samsung may be just days away from taking the wraps off its very own foldable smartphone-tablet hybrid, but consumer electronics company Royole has stolen a bit of its thunder with its very own flexible display device. Called the FlexPai, the 7.8-inch hybrid device can fold 180 degrees and transform from a tablet into a phone, … Continue reading We Tried The World’s First Folding Phone, & It Actually Works – Nick Statt
Category: Innovations
These 5 Innovative AI Companies Are Changing The Way We Live – Rosie Brown
It’s 2018 and the world doesn’t quite look like a scene from “The Jetsons.” However, technological innovation spurred by advancements in computing has allowed for artificial intelligence to bring significant changes to the way businesses operate, impacting our everyday lives. Here are five industries impacted by AI....... Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nvidia/2018/11/01/these-5-innovative-ai-companies-are-changing-the-way-we-live/#2dc9a60e5a7f Your … Continue reading These 5 Innovative AI Companies Are Changing The Way We Live – Rosie Brown
Swiss Startup Aims To Help Paralyzed People Walk – Matthew Herper
A group of scientists associated with GTX Medical, a Swiss medical device firm, published new evidence yesterday that using electricity to stimulate the spinal cord can help paralyzed people regain some walking ability. The new results, published yesterday in Nature and its sister journal Nature Neuroscience, show that using patterns of electrical stimulation allowed three … Continue reading Swiss Startup Aims To Help Paralyzed People Walk – Matthew Herper
This Thermometer Tells Your Temperature, Then Tells Firms Where to Advertise – Sapna Maheshwari
Most of what we do — the websites we visit, the places we go, the TV shows we watch, the products we buy — has become fair game for advertisers. Now, thanks to internet-connected devices in the home like smart thermometers, ads we see may be determined by something even more personal: our health. This … Continue reading This Thermometer Tells Your Temperature, Then Tells Firms Where to Advertise – Sapna Maheshwari
The Startup Postmates and Visa Use To Watch Their Language Just Raised $11.5 Million To Expand – Alex Konrad
When the startup Qordoba first met with California venture capitalists to share its software idea, its founders faced an uphill battle for attention. Its chief executive was a female ex-banker. Its chief technology officer was Syrian and had taught himself English. And their business was based in Dubai. But Qordoba was operating in a market … Continue reading The Startup Postmates and Visa Use To Watch Their Language Just Raised $11.5 Million To Expand – Alex Konrad
How To Improve Your Digital Journey With The Right Partners – Derek Klobucher
https://youtu.be/0N4iAWoT764 Compared to a classic IT solution, [partnership] enables you to go much further along the way in a short period of time,” Carlo Schots, from The Netherlands-based IT service provider Ordina, stated in a video shown at SAP Leonardo Now last month. “Together they enable you to innovate digitally.” Ordina partnered with SAP to … Continue reading How To Improve Your Digital Journey With The Right Partners – Derek Klobucher
Despite What Anti-Vaxxers Say, Vitamin K Shots Are Safe For Newborns – Lauren Strapagiel
Babies are born with a deficiency in vitamin K, an important factor for proper blood clotting. So most newborns are given a shot of vitamin K soon after birth to prevent potentially life-threatening hemorrhages in the brain or intestines. It's been standard practice since the early 1960s, but the rise in anti-vaccination rhetoric has also … Continue reading Despite What Anti-Vaxxers Say, Vitamin K Shots Are Safe For Newborns – Lauren Strapagiel
Why You Shouldn’t Share Your Goals – Aytekin Tank
The race to get the world’s first plane in the sky was a hard fought battle between The Wright Brothers and a lesser-known gentleman by the name of Samuel Pierpont Langley. You will discover why you’ve never heard of the latter here shortly. As you probably read somewhere inside that history textbook you were forced … Continue reading Why You Shouldn’t Share Your Goals – Aytekin Tank
Africa Renewables Fund awards $1.6m for solar home lighting to 7,000 homes in Zambia —
Kazang Solar, Azuri Technologies’ official distribution partner in Zambia, has been awarded $1.6 million from the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) under its Renewable Energy and Climate Adaptation Technologies (REACT) window. Azuri is a leading commercial provider of pay-as-you-go solar home systems to off-grid homes in Africa and has been working with Kazang in Zambia… via … Continue reading Africa Renewables Fund awards $1.6m for solar home lighting to 7,000 homes in Zambia —
The Robot Will See You Now: Could Computers Take Over Medicine Entirely – Tim Adams
Like all everyday miracles of technology, the longer you watch a robot perform surgery on a human being, the more it begins to look like an inevitable natural wonder. Earlier this month I was in an operating theatre at University College Hospital in central London watching a 59-year-old man from Potters Bar having his cancerous … Continue reading The Robot Will See You Now: Could Computers Take Over Medicine Entirely – Tim Adams