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 —
Category: Innovations
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
How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can – Mae Ryan
A robotic hand? Four autonomous fingers and a thumb that can do anything your own flesh and blood can do? That is still the stuff of fantasy. But inside the world’s top artificial intelligence labs, researchers are getting closer to creating robotic hands that can mimic the real thing. The Spinner Inside OpenAI, … Continue reading How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can – Mae Ryan
Amazon Shakes Up Drugstore Business With Deal to Buy Online Pharmacy PillPack – Angelica LaVito/Lauren Hirsch
Amazon shakes up drug store industry by acquiring online pharmacy company PillPack 7:34 AM ET Fri, 29 June 2018 | 01:36 Amazon is acquiring online pharmacy PillPack in a deal that is already shaking up the drugstore industry. The move is the strongest indication yet of Amazon's intent to push further into the health-care … Continue reading Amazon Shakes Up Drugstore Business With Deal to Buy Online Pharmacy PillPack – Angelica LaVito/Lauren Hirsch
The Best Blockchain Jobs And Careers Available Today – Bernard Marr
Blockchain expertise captured the No. 1 position on the latest skills index by Upwork for being the hottest in the U.S. job market. This is just one of the many indicators of how high the demand is for people with blockchain skills. Blockchain may have begun in finance to support cryptocurrencies, but now blockchain technology … Continue reading The Best Blockchain Jobs And Careers Available Today – Bernard Marr
What It Takes To Make IoT Implementation A Success – Robert Plant & Cherie Topham
Organizations around the globe understand the importance of IoT. In fact, in a recent Forbes Insights/Hitachi survey of more than 500 executives worldwide, over 90% said IoT will be important to the future of their business. What’s more, of all emerging technologies, executives said IoT would be the most critical, ranking it above others like … Continue reading What It Takes To Make IoT Implementation A Success – Robert Plant & Cherie Topham
The Impact of Fintech on Investment Banking
https://youtu.be/UpJEViUTNNU Leon Saunders Calvert, Global Head of M&A and Capital Raising at Thomson Reuters explores to what an extent Fintech is now changing the Investment Banking industry. New technologies, like machine learning/artificial intelligence, predictive behavioral analytics and data-driven marketing, will take the guesswork and habit out of financial decisions. "Learning" apps will not only learn … Continue reading The Impact of Fintech on Investment Banking
These Glasses Can Help People with Disabilities use Technology without their Hands
Glassouse can be worn like a pair of glasses and allow people with disabilities to use their smartphones and computers hands-free. Head movements will control the mouse cursor and biting on the blue extension will select items. When looking at the OrCam MyEye, one might think they are just another pair of glasses for blind … Continue reading These Glasses Can Help People with Disabilities use Technology without their Hands