U.S. patent application, 20200372140, describes a method for authorizing and enabling a virtual assistant access to a user’s own data during a meeting event. The method includes specifying the duration of access and automatically disabling the access at the termination of the meeting event or when the user is not a participant of the event. The figure below illustrates a meeting event in which...

Microfiber- and nanofiber-based wearable technology can be used to monitor a patient's vital signs at all times. A shirt that monitors your blood pressure or a pair of socks that can keep track of your cholesterol levels might be just a few years away from becoming reality.In an article published in Applied Physics Reviews, researchers examine the use of microfibers, and even smaller nanofibers...

Pairish has two product lines that offer pickling and smoothie making mixes, giving people the option to reinvent their leftover produce.Food waste is a major global problem, with about one-third of it wasted, lost or uneaten. As this issue has been receiving increasing attention, many solutions are being developed to help curb the problem. The Pairish app is a food waste intervention solution...

The growth of ecommerce has always fit the old line about a frog in boiling water. Every year, the share of retail taken by ecommerce rose a little higher, and physical retailers got a little more uncomfortable, but the growth in any given year was never dramatic enough to make headlines. That was until 2020, of course - now we’ve had a reset. Lockdowns triggered a huge spike in online sales o...

Scale AI, the four-year-old data labeling startup, has discovered that selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence is big business.The company, which created a visual data labeling platform that uses software and people to label image, text, voice and video data for companies building machine learning algorithms, has raised another $155 million. The funding...

Fans can typically only be locked off or set to oscillate, in either case meaning that they won't necessarily always be blowing on someone who is moving around. As its name implies, however, the Following Fan tracks its user, panning with them as they walk.The device was designed by Minnesota-based software engineers Nate Oelke and Aj Sakher. And while it looks like an ordinary steel-bodied, al...

Vivo, the granddaddy of pop-up front-facing camera, is not done with the pop-up camera yet. It was recently revealed that it is taking the pop-up camera further. How? By making it detachable.That’s right. A detachable camera on a smartphone. I have to admit. It is rather gimmicky, but it is not without its usefulness. Who knows, this concept, referred to as IFEA detectable front camera concept...

Martech 2030: Five Trends in Marketing Technology for the Decade of the Augmented Marketer.Four months ago, I started a collaboration with Jason Baldwin, the global head of product management at WPP, to write a paper on the major trends in marketing technology that we believe will shape the decade ahead for agencies and brands.It wasn’t about guessing our own “hype cycle” of individual techn...

Program solves scientific problem in ‘stunning advance’ for understanding machinery of life. A protein’s function is determined by the shape it folds into, which traditionally takes years to discover through lab work. Having risen to fame on its superhuman performance at playing games, the artificial intelligence group DeepMind has cracked a serious scientific problem that has stumped resear...