Today, Acceleprise SF hosts their Demo Day for their 4th cohort of startups. Acceleprise, “the SaaS accelerator”, provides early stage B2B companies access to a 4 month program where they’re supported by mentors, investors and a structured curriculum covering topics such as UX/design, sales, distribution, fundraising, customer acquisition, hiring, and more. Acceleprise invests $50,000 in each company for 5% equity.The companies will be pitching their products to an audience of VCs, Angel Investors, and decision makers at large tech companies, in hopes of closing their next round of funding.
Google Glass, despite its dramatic 2012 unveiling via a live skydiving demo, never became a consumer hit, and Google stopped selling the device in January 2015.
Now, a team of doctors at the University of Massachusetts Medical School may have discovered a killer app for the device—performing emergency medicine consultations. Glass, it turns out, enables off-site specialists to reliably and accurately observe and diagnose patients in real-time. It may even help first responders triage victims in disaster scenarios.
Affectiva, a startup developing “emotion recognition technology” that can read people’s moods from their facial expressions captured in digital videos, raised $14 million in a Series D round of funding led by Fenox Venture Capital.
According to co-founder Rana el Kaliouby, the Waltham, Mass.-based company wants its technology to become the de facto means of adding emotional intelligence and empathy to any interactive product, and the best way for organizations to attain unvarnished insights about customers, patients or constituents.
The possibility that a malevolent artificial intelligence might pose a serious threat to humankind has become a hotly debated issue. Various high profile individuals from the physicist Stephen Hawking to the tech entrepreneur Elon Musk have warned of the danger.
Which is why the field of artificial intelligence safety is emerging as an important discipline. Computer scientists have begun to analyze the unintended consequences of poorly designed AI systems, of AI systems created with faulty ethical frameworks or ones that do not share human values.
After advancing its experimental prostate drug to late-stage clinical trials, San Diego-based Sophiris Bio (NASDAQ: SPHS) has been assessing its strategic options before choosing the best way to continue the clinical trials and seek FDA approval.
In the past few weeks, Sophiris has raised additional capital to extend its operations for at least one more year. It also has hired an investment banking firm to help evaluate its strategic alternatives, and has cut its workforce in half to reduce its operating expenses.
The round, led by leading healthcare provider InterMountain Healthcare, will be used to accelerate the development of Zebra’s imaging analytics engine and create neural networks that will use Zebra’s vast imaging dataset to assist radiologists with automated diagnostic algorithms.
Apple no está dispuesta a quedarse descolgada en la carrera por dominar el negocio de la distribución del contenido audiovisual y con este propósito planteó recientemente al conglomerado de medios Time Warner la posibilidad de adquirirla, para así sumar fuerzas frente a Netflix, Amazon, Comcast y Disney. La compra daría a la compañía de la manzana acceso a importantes activos como las cadenas CNN y HBO o a los estudios Warner Brothers.
Transforming bricks-and-mortar shopping is a high-stakes endeavor for retailers given Americans still do over 90% of our shopping in physical stores. In fact, one of the latest trends in retail is the launch of physical stores by online e-commerce companies, including Amazon, Warby Parker, and Birchbox.
Dozens of startups have taken on the challenge of helping retailers bridge the gap between digital and physical commerce through features ranging from shelf-stocking robots, to augmented reality displays, to Wi-Fi based beacons that collect data on shopper behavior.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) escindirá su unidad de servicios de tecnologías de la información para fusionarlo con Computer Sciences, creando así un gigante de la industria con una facturación anual de 26.000 millones de dólares y más de 5.000 clientes en 70 países.
Tras la escisión, HPE se centrará en el negocio de servicios en la nube y la venta de servidores, routers y switches (equipamiento de comunicaciones). Este negocio le reporta anualmente unos ingresos de unos 33.000 millones de dólares.
IKERLAN zentro teknologikoak enpresen eraldaketa digitala bizkortzeko dituen ahalmenak erakutsiko ditu Makina-erremintaren Bienalean (BIEMH), Europan sektore horrek egiten duen azokarik garrantzitsuenetakoan. Azoka Bilbao Exhibition Centren egingo da maiatzaren 30etik ekainaren 4ra bitartean. Laugarren Iraultza Industriala izeneko testuinguru honetan, non digitalizazioa industri konpainien erronka nagusia bihurtu baita, euskal zentroak 4.0 industriarako garatzen dituen teknologiak erakutsiko ditu.
