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(Patent) Tesla’s New Battery Cell Patent 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says Elon Musk
[Tech]
2020/05/11 09:09
The patent describes a novel way of building cells to avoid a jelly-roll design.Never one to be outdone, Tesla has patented a new battery cell, called ‘Cell with a Tabless Electrode,' that CEO Elon Musk tweets is "way more important than it sounds." The patent is pretty self-explanatory, indicating at the beginning why there is a need for this new technology."Current cells use a jelly-roll des...
Why Is the Stock Market Rallying When the Economy Is So Bad ?
[Investing]
2020/05/11 09:08
Five reasons the stock market is soaring as the economy is floundering: from buoyant tech stocks to high earnings hopes to fear of missing out.The latest jobs report revealing record U.S. unemployment highlights a growing rift investors are struggling to reconcile: a rallying stock market and stumbling economy.Gains in U.S. stocks accelerated Friday after April’s nonfarm payrolls report showed...
Zoom Matchmaking is Giving Lockdown Singletons a Shot at Love
[Business]
2020/05/11 09:07
A reinvention of traditional matchmaking is helping the single, bored, and lonely meet like-minded people, wherever they might live.On Saturday, after three hours of flirting and playing games, Katia Ameri got “engaged” to Ronak “Ro” Trivedi—and the whole thing was live-streamed on Zoom.“I thought that he was very sincere!” she told me on Tuesday. “And he just seemed like someone I woul...
Virtual and Augmented Reality Investment at 2013 Levels in First Quarter
[Investing]
2020/05/11 09:05
While Digi-Capital’s AR/VR Analytics Platform tracked over $4 billion AR/VR investment last year, virtual and augmented reality investment dropped in Q4 2019 and Q1 2020 in terms of both deal volume (i.e. number of deals) and deal value (i.e. dollars invested). The first quarter of this year saw AR/VR investment volume (again, number of deals) at a quarterly level last seen back in 2013. In th...
(Video) Exer Launches AI-based Fitness Coach on Your Mobile Phone
[Business]
2020/05/11 09:05
Just in time for the home fitness craze, Exer has launched its AI-based coach that shows you how to exercise correctly at home. “Unfortunately, people can’t go to a gym now,” Thet said. “We started this a few years ago, and I think it is even more relevant now. As people accelerate into more digital forms of education for fitness, this will become increasingly even more relevant. We believe...
Dutch Restaurant Can Beat Social Distancing, Fully-Booked Until End of June
[Design]
2020/05/11 09:04
Dutch Restaurant Can Beat Social Distancing, Fully-Booked Until End of June.A dutch restaurant is fully-booked until the end of June after constructing glass huts in which social distancing customers may enjoy a candlelit dinner despite the coronavirus crisis.A restaurant in Amsterdam called Mediamatic capable of operating with full social distancing measures is already fully-booked until the e...
Red Dot Award 2019 Winner - Foldaway Dining Suite : Compact
[Design]
2020/05/11 09:03
Dining, entertainment and work all compete for precious space in apartments today, creating a demand for adaptable furniture that can cater to multifunctional space demands.Compact is a foldaway dining table that addresses these needs. The table comfortably accommodates four adults for dining, or provides a more spacious area for work or recreational pursuits, extending the utility and enjoymen...
(Video) AR Experiment Uses AI to Cut and Paste Real-World Things Into Photoshop
[Tech]
2020/05/10 09:10
Finally, a practical use for AR that isn’t just shopping[Cyrial Diagne’s ‘AR Cut & Paste’ demo in action]Apart from burning through VC money and educating the public on how frighteningly large emperor penguins are, what is augmented reality actually good for? Here’s one answer: real-life copy and paste.As this awesome demo from developer Cyril Diagne demonstrates, AR can be the perfect...
(Infographic) Visualizing Tech Giants’ Billion-Dollar Acquisitions
[Investing]
2020/05/10 09:09
Our graphic shows every billion-dollar acquisition made by Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple, from Facebook's $22B purchase of WhatsApp to Microsoft's recent $1.4B bet on 5G cloud specialist Affirmed Networks.[click to enlarge]Over the last 3 decades, the FAMGA tech giants — Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple — have collectively made 770 acquisitions. Even amid the Co...
