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Simbe Robotics Raises $26M for Autonomous Inventory Robots
[Investing]
2019/09/17 09:06
Robots are coming for the grocery aisle, and that’s because they promise to save storeowners invaluable time by inventorying shelves of stock quickly and accurately. Research and Markets anticipates that the global brick-and-mortar automation market will be worth close to $18.9 million by 2023, which some analysts say could cut down on the billions of dollars in lost revenue traced to misplace...
Mobile Payment Usage Is Growing, but Cash and Cards Still Have Their Place
[Consumer]
2019/09/17 09:05
Consumers today have more payment options than ever. Mobile payment platforms like Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay are increasingly gaining traction, but the trinity of cash, debit and credit still dominate—especially with smaller, in-store transactions.In a March 2019 survey conducted by Mercator Advisory Group, consumers didn't favor one payment over the other. Instead, certain payment...
Luxury’s Trouble Getting Down With American Kids
[Business]
2019/09/17 09:04
Designer labels have been less successful with U.S. millennials than with young Chinese shoppers. Luxury brands have done a great job of attracting young Chinese shoppers. Cash-strapped U.S. millennials will be a tougher sell.Chinese spending on Gucci handbags, Burberry trench coats and the like has been surprisingly resilient despite the country’s weakening economy. That has buoyed the stock-...
AI Tailored Nanotech Dress Shirt with Infinite Customization
[Product]
2019/09/17 09:03
Pick your own unique performance dress shirt, then use your phone to 3D scan your body for an amazing fit.It isn’t often that you hear the words A.I. And Tailor together in the same sentence, but the guys at Element Pure have found a pretty remarkable, new area of intervention for artificial intelligence. Using the power of A.I. to bring together the worlds of Fast Fashion and Fitted Fashion,...
(Patent) Apple Files Patent Application for a Fabric Sensing Device
[Tech]
2019/09/16 09:10
US patent application 20190272055 discloses a touch-sensitive textile device that includes two sets of interwoven conductive threads oriented in two different directions and a sensing circuit. The device detects the occurrence of a touch, the location of a touch, and the force of a touch on the touch-sensitive textile device. Illustration depicts the device.Patent Application : http://bit.ly/2N...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Securing Software as a Service
[Business]
2019/09/16 09:09
Here is how SaaS providers can meet the security needs of their enterprise customers.Companies are rapidly adopting software as a service (SaaS) in place of purchasing commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS). Companies using SaaS rely on SaaS vendors to host their applications in the cloud instead of running them in their own data centers. Industry analysts estimate that the SaaS market will g...
Ecovative Turns Mushrooms Into Walls, Packaging and Now Meat
[Design]
2019/09/16 09:08
Ecovative is a business making compostable packaging from mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms, for companies like dell and IKEA. Now with plant-based foods like impossible burger and beyond meat becoming popular, the company’s co-founder eben bayer, wants to use mycelium to create plant-based meats.'Mycelium is a self-assembling 3D scaffolding with tunable porosity and controllable fiber...
The Top Programming Languages 2019 - Python
[Tech]
2019/09/16 09:07
Python remains the big kahuna, but specialist languages hold their own.Welcome to IEEE Spectrum’s sixth annual interactive ranking of the top programming languages. This year we’ve done a major overhaul, changing some of the underlying metrics and building a new streamlined interface. But our basic idea and methodology remains the same: combining data from multiple sources to rank the popular...
(Video) RoMeLa's Newest Robot Is a Curiously Symmetrical Dynamic Quadruped
[Tech]
2019/09/16 09:06
With four legs but no back or front, ALPHRED 2 can run, jump, and punch through boards in any direction.A few years ago, we wrote about NABiRoS, a bipedal robot from Dennis Hong’s Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) at UCLA. Unlike pretty much any other biped we’d ever seen, NABiRoS had a unique kinematic configuration that had it using its two legs to walk sideways, which offered s...
