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Samsung Quits Making New Blu-ray Players
[Business]
2019/02/19 10:49
The beginning of the end for physical discs ?Slowly but surely, spinning discs are dying out, and Samsung just put another nail in their coffin. The company told Forbes that it’s done producing new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray players — and CNET was able to confirm that Samsung is halting production on at least some of its 1080p Blu-ray players as well.“Samsung will no longer introduce new Blu-ray or...
Bill Gates-Backed Vicarious Surgical Adds a VR Twist to Robots in the Operating Room
[Investing]
2019/02/19 10:49
In an operating room in rural Idaho, doctors prep a patient for surgery. They make a tiny, thumb-sized incision into the patient and insert a small robot while across the country a surgeon puts on a virtual reality headset, grabs their controllers and prepares to operate.While this scene may seem like science fiction now, a Charlestown, Mass.-based startup called Vicarious Surgical is developin...
(Infographic) Meet Generation Z : The Newest Member to the Workforce
[Consumer]
2019/02/19 10:48
Every generation approaches the workplace differently. While talk over the last decade has largely focused on understanding the work habits and attitudes of Millennials, it’s already time for a new generation to enter the fold.Generation Z, the group born after the Millennials, is entering their early adult years and starting their young careers. What makes them different, and how will they ap...
(Patent) Amazon Patents The Rekognition Tech That Could Link You To Your Identity And Job
[Tech]
2019/02/18 10:17
The Rekognition technology could one day scan your face, identify who you are, use visual cues to figure out the kind of work you do, and potentially track you as you move around.Amazon has filed a patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for technology that could one day scan your face and identify who you are, use visual cues to figure out the kind of work you do, and potent...
(PDF) BCG - Get Ready for the Chinese Internet’s Next Chapter
[Business]
2019/02/18 10:17
Now that China’s internet giants have performed a digital makeover on fundamental aspects of Chinese consumers’ daily lives, they have set their sights on the industrial internet. They are delving into vertical and B2B markets, developing everything from product design and manufacturing to supply chain and logistics. Their efforts extend to nurturing the digital platforms that are poised to t...
The World’s Most Innovative Countries 2019 - 1st. South Korea
[Investing]
2019/02/18 10:17
China beats U.K. in Bloomberg index; U.S. back in the top 10. Israel rises to fifth and overtakes Sweden, Singapore, Japan.South Korea retained the global crown in the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index, though improvements by Germany in research and education brought Europe’s largest economy to near-parity in the annual ranking.The U.S. moved up to eighth place, a year after cracks in education...
(PDF) Researchers Improve Robots’ Speech Recognition by Modeling Human Auditory
[Tech]
2019/02/18 10:17
We rarely think too much about noises as we’re listening to them, but there’s an enormous amount of complexity involved in isolating audio from places like crowded city squares and busy department stores. In the lower levels of our auditory pathways, we segregate individual sources from backgrounds, localize them in space, and detect their motion patterns — all before we work out their conte...
‘Stuff’ Really Is Getting More Expensive
[Investing]
2019/02/18 10:16
Aside from energy, the price of goods is creeping higher for the first time in over five years.Overall consumer prices were flat in January from a month earlier, the Labor Department said on Wednesday, held down by a decline in gasoline prices. Core prices, which exclude food and energy items to better capture inflation’s trend, rose 0.2%, putting them 2.2% above their year-earlier level.The g...
(Video) Xnor.ai Unveils First Battery-free, Solar AI Technology
[Product]
2019/02/18 10:16
The prototype device built by startup Xnor can run indefinitely just on sunlight. A big trend in AI is the transition from cloud to edge computing. Instead of AI devices doing their computation remotely via an internet connection, they’re increasingly handling things locally, with algorithms working directly on-device. Benefits of this approach can include faster results, greater security, and...
