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(Patent) Latest Magic Leap Patent Shows Off Prototype AR Glasses Design
[Tech]
2017/09/04 11:43
Magic Leap, an AR company best known for raising money, still owes consumers a product, or at least the hint of one. Thanks to a newly-released patent filing, we now have a new look at an old prototype that could be a guiding force for the direction of the $4.5 billion startup’s product design.The design, which credits Magic Leap’s design head Gary Natsume as the inventor, isn’t quite delive...
The U.S. Stock Market is The World’s Most Expensive
[Investing]
2017/09/04 11:43
Wall Street ranks among the priciest markets on a number of metrics. There’s nothing new about U.S. stock market investors fretting about valuations on Wall Street, but they still may not fully realize how pricey things have gotten relative to the rest of the globe. According to StarCapital Research, the U.S. has the least affordable equity market in the world, coming in last among the 40 coun...
IFA 2017 - Bosch X-Spect Scanner Reads The Makeup of Fabric and Fruit
[Product]
2017/09/04 11:43
Bosch's handheld scanner concept can determine nutritional content of food and what kind of stain is on your shirt.A representative from Bosch held the X-Spect scanner against my shirt for a few seconds. "Cotton" read the small screen on the handheld device. Close. It was actually linen. "Same molecular structure," said the rep. The X-spect is just a concept at the moment. It's about the size o...
How The Very Richest Have Fared Since The Crisis
[Investing]
2017/09/04 11:42
Their net worth was hit by the stock market slump, but the rebound has been hefty.[click to enlarge]The net worth of the world’s very wealthiest people took a hit during the financial crisis as the stock market tumbled — but that pause would prove to be short lived.Forbes’ list of the top 10 richest people in the world featured a fairly steady cast of characters in the years before the crisi...
Smartphones Cause Photography Boom
[Business]
2017/09/04 11:42
"Pics or it didn’t happen!" started out as a way of calling out someone who made far-fetched statements on social media or elsewhere without offering any type of proof. These days, however, it seems like some people live by these words in that they chronicle every living moment by constantly taking pictures.According to estimates by InfoTrends, a total of 1.2 trillion digital photos will be ta...
Tech Companies Spend More on R&D Than Any Other Companies in The U.S.
[Business]
2017/09/04 11:42
Tech companies lead top U.S. companies in R&D spending. Amazon is No. 1.That’s notable because spending on research and development is a key indicator for U.S. productivity, a measure of how well our economy is doing, and productivity has been decreasing lately. No one is really sure why, especially given all the advances in technology.But spending on R&D is another factor in measuring...
(Infographic) The Next Generation Food System
[Tech]
2017/09/04 11:42
Our current agricultural System is incredibly productive, but it also has serious downsides : wasted food, poor working conditions, polluted ecosystems, mistreated animals, and significant emissions of greenhouse gasses.Infographic : https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Next-Generation-Food-Systems-Edit.png[futursim]
(PDF) Deloitte - Experiencing The Future of Mobility
[Business]
2017/09/03 10:10
Opportunities for the media & entertainment industry.Those riding in self-driving cars can look forward to entertainment far beyond podcasts, FM radio, and streaming music: personalized video, gaming, and more. The possibilities suggest big opportunities for media companies in the coming years—and a slew of upstart competitors to counter.NOT to disparage the excitement of spotting out-of-s...
A Computer Was Asked to Predict Which Start-Ups Would be Successful. The Results Were Astonishing
[Investing]
2017/09/03 10:09
The venture capital world is one of the last areas of business to introduce computing to decision-making'. In 2009, Ira Sager of Businessweek magazine set a challenge for Quid AI's CEO Bob Goodson: programme a computer to pick 50 unheard of companies that are set to rock the world.The domain of picking “start-up winners” was - and largely still is - dominated by a belief held by the venture c...
