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(Video) AI-powered Robot Pickers will be the Next Big Work Revolution in Warehouses - Covariant
[Tech]
2020/02/06 09:08
At a warehouse on the outskirts of Berlin recently, a new addition to the warehouse, a robot, drew press attention.The New York Times called the component-sorting robot "a major advance in artificial intelligence and the ability of machines to perform human labor."A video demo of the robot in action revealed the robot placing various items, with different shapes, in different containers."As mil...
Apple Watch Outsells the Entire Swiss Watch Industry in 2019
[Business]
2020/02/06 09:07
The Apple Watch outsold the entire Swiss watch industry by a wide margin in 2019, according to new data shared today by Strategy Analytics.Apple shipped an estimated 30.7 million units worldwide in 2019, up 36 percent from the estimated 22.5 million units shipped in 2018.Comparatively, the Swiss watch industry (which includes all Swiss watch brands) is estimated to have shipped a total of 21.1...
Handheld 3D Skin Printer Proves Itself a Healer in Severe Burns Trial
[Tech]
2020/02/06 09:06
Handheld instrument for wound-conformal delivery of skin precursor sheets improves healing in full-thickness burns.In search of new ways to treat severe burns that don’t involve skin grafts, scientists at the University of Toronto have spent more than a decade developing a portable device that can print out large sheets of "bio ink" to boost the healing process. The team has put its latest mod...
The Technology That Could Save Us from Deepfake Videos - Cyabra
[Tech]
2020/02/06 09:05
Israeli startup Cyabra’s technology detects expertly doctored videos as well as the bots powering fake social-media profiles.It’s November 2020, just days before the US presidential election, and a video clip comes out showing one of the leading candidates saying something inflammatory and out of character. The public is outraged, and the race is won by the other contender.The only problem: t...
(Video) Self-Driving Mass Transit Arrives on American Streets - Easy Mile
[Business]
2020/02/06 09:04
An autonomous electric shuttle in Columbus, Ohio, is the latest in a U.S.-funded program testing new ways to knit cities together.When Interstate 71 arrived in Columbus in the 1960s, the South Linden neighborhood was largely cut off from the rest of the city, wedged between railroad tracks to the south and east and the new concrete highway to the west.More than a half-century later, autonomous...
Shipping Containers Turned Into Mirrored Architects' Studio
[Design]
2020/02/06 09:03
Belgian practice TOOP Architectuur has designed two mobile architects' studios for its staff made of repurposed shipping containers clad in mirrors and timber.One studio, called Cowes, is set within the rural landscape of Westouter, close to the French border.The other, called Colok, sits at the end of an inner-city garden in Lokeren in East Flanders. Together the project is called Diptych."The...
(Patent) Apple Working on Folding iPhone Display with More Robust Bend Radius
[Tech]
2020/02/05 10:10
Apple is continuing to look into the possibility of creating a foldable iPhone, one equipped with a hinge that allows a flexible display to be bent enough for the smartphone to fold, but preventing the display from developing a crease.The current trend in smartphones is the addition of a flexible display and movable sections, as evidenced by models from Samsung like the Fold and another rumored...
(PDF) Sensor Tower - Q4 2019 Data Digest
[Business]
2020/02/05 10:09
Learn which apps led the App Store and Google Play in global and U.S. downloads for full-year and Q4 2019.- See a breakdown of the top mobile games in the quarter and 2019 as a whole.- Understand which publishers added the most new users in 2019 and its fourth quarter, and how this changed from 2018.- Receive a breakdown of country-specific market performance, as well as year-over-year growth.-...
(Paper) AuraRing : Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking
[Tech]
2020/02/05 10:08
A researcher writes 'hello' on a computer screen by drawing out the letters in the air with a finger. The researcher is wearing the ring/wristband combo.With continuous tracking, AuraRing can pick up handwriting — potentially for short responses to text messages.Smart technology keeps getting smaller. There are smartphones, smartwatches and now, smart rings, devices that allow someone to use s...
