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(Paper) MIT Engineers Produce a Fish-Eye Lens That’s Completely Flat - Metalenses
[Tech]
2020/11/03 09:06
The single piece of glass produces crisp panoramic images.To capture panoramic views in a single shot, photographers typically use fisheye lenses — ultra-wide-angle lenses made from multiple pieces of curved glass, which distort incoming light to produce wide, bubble-like images. Their spherical, multipiece design makes fisheye lenses inherently bulky and often costly to produce.Now engineers...
(M&A) Business Insider Buys Morning Brew, The Business Newsletter Publisher for Millennials
[Investing]
2020/11/03 09:05
Insider Inc., the parent company to Business Insider, closed an all-cash deal Thursday to buy a majority stake in Morning Brew, a media startup that focuses on business newsletters and podcasts.Why it matters: It's an unusual success story amid a bleak media landscape. Morning Brew's co-founders, both under 30, raised very little capital upfront to launch their business but still managed to be...
Dyson Award - LUNE : A Smart Monitoring and Training System for Sleep Apnea Patients
[Design]
2020/11/03 09:04
Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and begins again. During sleep, when throat muscles are too relaxed, they expand and obstruct airways, disrupting the flow of oxygen throughout the body.There are assistive devices such as CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), whose purpose is to increase air pressure in your throat so that the muscles surrounding it do n...
(Infographic) Commodity Investing Through Miners and Explorers
[Investing]
2020/11/03 09:03
Investors consider gold and silver as safe haven investments. But the companies that produce gold and silver often offer volatile returns, creating opportunities for astute investors.Volatility is a double-edged sword, particularly when it comes to commodity investing. During the good times, it can create skyrocketing returns. But during bad times, it can turn ugly.Today’s infographic comes to...
(PDF) WEF - The Future of Jobs Report 2020
[Consumer]
2020/11/02 09:10
After years of growing income inequality, concerns about technology-driven displacement of jobs, and rising societal discord globally, the combined health and economic shocks of 2020 have put economies into freefall, disrupted labour markets and fully revealed the inadequacies of our social contracts.Millions of individuals globally have lost their livelihoods and millions more are at risk from...
TechSee Raises $30M to Streamline Field Service Work with AR and Computer Vision
[Investing]
2020/11/02 09:09
TechSee, which describes itself as an “intelligent visual assistance” company, today closed a $30 million investment round led by OurCrowd, Salesforce Ventures, and Telus Ventures. A spokesperson for the startup says the capital injection will be used to enter new markets and verticals while expanding TechSee’s product offerings and capabilities.The augmented reality market is estimated to g...
(Paper) Capacitivo : A Contact-Sensitive Technique That can be Used to Make Smart Tablecloths
[Tech]
2020/11/02 09:08
A team of researchers at Dartmouth College, working with Microsoft Corp., has developed a contact-sensitive object-recognition technique called Capacitivo for creating interactive fabrics. In their paper published on the ACM digital library site for the upcoming User Interface Software and Technology Conference, the group describes their technique and how well the prototype they built worked wh...
Agtech Innovations are Bolstering Modern Farming
[Business]
2020/11/02 09:07
The area of farming has met—and embraced—today’s preeminent tech in an effort that has and will continue to supercharge this millennium-old practice. Boasting capabilities that harvest crop-to-crop data and employ artificial intelligence to generate insights, these new agtech innovations have become vital for today’s farmers, who in the very near future will need to produce about 70% more f...
(PDF) A Global Survey of Potential Acceptance of a COVID-19 Vaccine
[Consumer]
2020/11/02 09:06
Global Majority Would Take Covid Vaccine.Positive COVID-19 cases are once again rising uniformly across much of the world, with case counts spiking in the U.S., Europe, Russia and others. Hospitalizations and deaths are still relatively low, although the period of lag between positivity and hospitalization varies greatly. The world is still waiting with bated breath for the first safe, mass-pro...
